Al-Qalam 
[The Citizen]
As a South African voter, you might be keen to know which parties stood on which side of the line when atrocities of genocidal proportions were unleashed by Israel against the entrapped people of Gaza, Palestine.
The ongoing hostility between Hamas and Israel, now in 112 days and counting on the battleground, has drawn international attention to a deadly violence that has gone on for nearly eight decades. Celebrities, organisations, governments and political parties have all had something to say.
Only the ANC and EFF, as well as the NFP and Al Jamaah, have thrown their weight behind the Palestinian cause. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have, each in their own capacities, called out Israel’s aggression in the Middle East.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), on the other hand, the second biggest party in the country, condemned Hamas’s resistance from the inception of hostilities.
As a governing party in the Western Cape, it has acted with dishonour against protesters who sport the colours of Palestine.
It’s important to remember those who stood with you and those that didn’t.
If Dr Naledi Pandor goes into a coalition government, we lose the tip of the arrow and become blunt and powerless to help Palestine…
Saber Ahmed Jazbhay
Durban
