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Why Ukraine and the Palestinians Cannot Be Compared
(News 24-South Africa) Rolene Marks - The anti-Israel folk lament that the focus of the world is on Ukraine and not the Palestinians and that the situation for both peoples is the same. Yet unlike the Palestinians, egged on by decades of incitement of hate against Israel and the Jewish people, the Ukrainian people have not fired thousands of rockets into Russia, have not dug tunnels to kidnap Russian civilians, thrown firebombs into cars, stoned Russian drivers, or shot and stabbed civilians in malls and on streets. While hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets and Russian embassies throughout the world, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Pretoria. South Africa's most important foreign policy goal is to get Israel's observer status at the African Union revoked. The writer is co-founder of South Africa Israel Policy Forum.