ILL-ADVISED WAR ON IRAN SHOWS TRUMP IS NETANYAHU’S “MANNA FROM HEAVEN”
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The biggest losers in the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran are, sadly, the Gulf Arab States in their entirety, often known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). For the uninitiated, the GCC is made up of Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman, which played a key role in the peace talks […]
IRAN IS VICTIM OF IAEA AND US-LED WESTERN DOUBLE-STANDARDS
Apart from the obvious loss of life and the mass destruction of infrastructure, the war on Iran by the US-Israeli joint venture exposes more fault-lines in our beleaguered international system: Double standards. Geopolitics analysts believe that the biggest winner in the military onslaught against Iran is already the Jewish state of Israel, and in particular […]
ROGUE STATE ISRAEL DETERMINED TO PULL DOWN THE US IN ITS INTERNATIONAL DECLINE
Israeli’s daring bombardment of Qatar this week revealed more than meets the eye. Let me cut to the chase: Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israelis have neither regard nor interest in brokering peace with the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, a movement that was born in the 1970’s as a militant response the decades-long illegal […]
A NEW, JUST WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER MUST SUPPLANT THE EVILS OF WAR
On Tuesday, in yet another brazen violation of international law, Israel unleashed long-range strikes into Doha, Qatar, targeting leaders of Hamas who had gathered there to discuss the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza. At around 4:00 pm local time, twelve air strikes hit residential buildings in the city, killing two, including the son of a […]
SA CONDEMNS THE ILLEGAL AND UNPROVOKED ATTACKE BY ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCE IN QATAR
The South African Government unequivocally condemns the illegal and unprovoked attack carried out by the Israeli Defence Force in Doha, Qatar, which targeted a civilian building in a residential area, which purportedly housed members of the Political Bureau of Hamas. This attack on Qatari territory constitutes a blatant violation of international law, breaching the principles […]
BRICS MUST ACCEPT MORE MEMBERS TO BECOME A TRUE CATALYST FOR A NEW, BETTER WORLD ORDER
The annual BRICS Summit, to be attended by heads of state, takes place in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro in early July. BRICS, acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is expanding at the speed of a lightning. At the 2023 BRICS Summit in South Africa, six more countries were accepted as members into […]
SA CONDEMNS ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON GAZA, BREACHING TWO-MONTH CEASEFIRE
South Africa condemns the massive Israeli airstrikes launched across Gaza on Tuesday, which have killed over 350 Palestinians. These deadly airstrikes emerge after a failure to implement the second stage of the peace agreement by Israel and despite ongoing negotiations to ensure that the ceasefire holds. The fatal attacks were reportedly greenlighted by the Israeli […]