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MPs must explain DA stance on Israel
I want to address an open letter to DA MPs Michael Bagraim and Darren Bergman in response to an article in a Johannesburg daily on June 30.
Dr Bryna Lewis
DA leader Mmusi Maimane recently launched Gauteng DA MPL Jack Bloom’s book in Johannesburg, and used the occasion to state his position on the Israel/Palestine question.
“Our view is that we must support parliament and South Africa’s stance. We must have a two-state solution.” This is the general consensus of opinion. However, the report adds that he “stunned the Jewish community” branding the pro-Israel position as “narrow and fundamentalist”.
Could the two MPs please state, through the medium of Jewish Report whether their leader asked for, or was given, any input on this complicated subject. Could they further affirm whether or not his remark is in line with the DA siding against Israel with the government last year, explained away as an aberration by an individual DA spokesman, in contrast to the principled stance of the ACPD.
Port Elizabeth