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South African Radio Personality Sides with Israel on Gaza
(News24-South Africa) Jenna Etheridge - Radio personality Gareth Cliff has courted controversy by declaring that Israel is entitled to protect itself from Palestinians "clearly hellbent on violence." "I looked at what was going on over there and I have done quite a lot of reading with quite a lot of the news articles from around the world and this claim that Israel shot demonstrators is just a blatant lie. It's an absolute falsehood," Cliff said. "This was an attempt to invade a sovereign nation and border communities to indiscriminately slaughter civilians." Cliff claimed that a successful "border breach" would have resulted in "real carnage on both sides." He said thousands of people would have streamed through the fence "and there would have been fires set, communities would have engaged in war. What must Israel do? Let it happen? Let their citizens be killed by a bunch of people who are clearly hellbent on violence? Tell me how that's an equal situation for both sides. It really isn't."