“Ever since the end of apartheid, foreign policy in South Africa has evolved to a point where there’s been a consensus that the country has got to be committed to multilateralism firstly, and secondly, it has to be committed to international law [....] the Palestinian question has become personal for South Africa and the reason why is that if one looks at the kind of political system exercised in Israel. Many people in South Africa, which include the government, argue that they are too close similarities between the way that that system looks like and the system of apartheid. And what that has done is that it has said that, actually, not only should the issue around Palestine fall within South Africa's core interests, but that in order for South Africa to achieve or to work towards the world that it wants to create, it has to use this example or use this case study that falls within the ambit of its core interests as a means to pursue that goal. And the way to do it is to use existing international law that regulates the behavior of countries in conflict to hold parties accountable,” the professor expounded
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