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As Jews, SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION to South Africa’s abhorrent government
TbT and Telfed call upon you to join in standing in solidarity against the South African government that falsely and maliciously accuses Israel of “genocide” at The Hague.
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THE SOUL OF SYLVIA
Naming a lane after one of Israel’s finest field agents – Sylvia Raphael– brought back memories about a heroic South African woman that resonates to an Israel today at war
By David E. Kaplan
is seen here on ‘assignment’ as a photojournalist in Yemen in 1967. Penetrating the inner
sanctums of Israel’s enemies, Sylvia set a standard of the value of top intel.
THE SOUL OF SYLVIA
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BEARING WITNESS
A visit to the scenes of crimes against humanity
By Rolene Marks
its visit south and answers: “To bear witness, to honour them, to be their voices to the world,”
and “to remind everyone of the crime against humanity that was 7/10.”
BEARING WITNESS
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LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 16
South Africa weaponizing International Law against Israel has proved it’s a strategic pawn and active proxy in Iran’s international Jihadi terror machine
By Harris Zvi Green
writer’s grandson, stopped the ceremony before the breaking of the glass and asked all present
to remember his friends and comrades who fell in defense of their country and their people.
LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 16
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IT’S NOT CRICKET
It is also not the direction South Africa should be going stripping the cricket captaincy of a Jew while falsely accusing Israel at The Hague of “Genocide”
By Kenneth Moeng Mokgatlhe
ahead of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup. What would the late Mandela – who said that “sport has
the power to unite” – say of this?
IT’S NOT CRICKET
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SOUTH AFRICA, USA, THE ICJ AND AGOA
With the friends it keeps, South Africa does not care about genocide or human rights.
By Grant Gochin
SOUTH AFRICA, USA, THE ICJ AND AGOA
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