Minister Kasrils's Incitement of Palestinians to Commit Violence Confirmed

Last week Israeli Ambassador to South Africa Ilan Baruch accused Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils in an article in the Cape Times of inciting violence against Israel. Kasrils responded by accusing the Ambassador of employing ‘invective and deception’. He particularly cast doubt on the validity of the Ambassador’s shocking claim by questioning why Baruch had failed to provide an exact quote or the source of the alleged statement.

Yesterday the Ambassador hit back in a letter to the Cape Times. According to Baruch, Kasrils was quoted by the Palestinian media on his recent trip to the West Bank as having encouraged rival parties in Gaza to stop their infighting and direct their weapons toward Israel. The exact quote from the Palestinian newspaper Al Ayam (May 6) reads

Kasrils called for national unity, as the only road to success, particularly because the enemy conspires to divide and control. Kasrils emphasised that the guns should be pointed towards the enemy, to better serve the struggle for liberation and independence.

Even worse is the fact that Kasrils made these remarks in a speech at Birzeit University.

I am sure Kasrils will continue to argue that we ‘should know better than to simply rely on newspaper reports, whether in Palestine or anywhere else in the world’. It’s funny though how often he is being misquoted (see Iran nuclear praise and Hamas invite). Or he will resort to his usual smear campaign that the Ambassador’s accusation ‘displays the colonial mentality of a power that has been brutally occupying and repressing a people for 40 years, where the right to resist is regarded as illegitimate’.

Without a public condemnation of Palestinian violence against Israel, we must assume that Kasrils does in fact support it. For a Minister in the South African government to take such a position is unconscionable. It should not be tolerated.

Last week the leadership of this community held ‘successful’ meetings with the government and the ANC. They assured us that SA Jewish concerns are important to the government. This would be the perfect opportunity to put this commitment to the test. I think it’s about time the leadership of this community stood up and called for Kasrils’s resignation. And if the government refuses, then we should look into the possibility of suing him for hate speech.

• Read the original post on the Israeli Ambassador's letter
• Read the reply from Kasrils
• Read the full letter reply from the Israeli ambassador

Steve adds

Of course, it's not just Israeli ambassadors that our minister is fighting with, he has also been writing snotty replies to letters from Gary Selikow further elaborating on his position that the Palestinians are the descendants from the Canaanites and thus the true indigenous people of the Holy land.

The significance of archaeological finds is that many other people and kingdoms were located in the Holy Land, the descendants of which are the indigenous Palestinian people who converted to Christianity in Roman times, then to Islam from the 7th century with the Arab migration.

But wait, not only are the Palestinians the Canaanites, they are also the true descendants of the original Hebrew tribes!

The irony is Palestinians now are most likely off-shoots of the original Hebrew tribes as well.

I suppose the rest of us are all counterfeit Jews.

Comments

[Gary]

Mike wrote "And if the government refuses, then we should look into the possibility of suing him for hate speech".
I agree, but possibly in an international forum/court, because civil society here is clearly dominated by the ANC/SACP.

[Hillel]

cricket's chirping from the FXI?

[Russel]

I love it when archeology lends a hand and presents us with proof that we were here long before the PA.

http://ru55el.vox.com/library/post/oh-dear-but-what-about-the-palestinians.html

[Gary]

That is exactly the reason why the 'Palestinians' reject to excavations, claming it is defiling their mosques, even if it miles away.
They fear the emergence of more evidence that we were in the Land of Israel millenia before tehm

Eretz Yisrael l'Am Israel.

[Gary]

In that vein, look what I just saw on Arutz Sheva

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123041

Kasrils is from the bottom of the scum barrel.

[Gary]

And yet when you think he cannot get any lower, he always does!