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Today, the US calls expulsion of Israeli envoy &#8216;a poor policy choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Pretoria declared Israel\u2019s acting ambassador persona non grata over &#8216;a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms&#8217; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By Mevlut Ozkan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISTANBUL (AA) &#8211; The US has criticised South Africa\u2019s decision to expel Israel\u2019s acting ambassador, Ariel Seidman, calling it a \u201cpoor foreign policy choice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, eleven months ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that South Africa\u2019s ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool was \u201cno longer welcome\u201d in the US, accusing him of being a \u201crace-bating politician who hates America\u201d.\u00a0Rasool was expelled barely two months after he arrived in Washington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post on social media company X, US State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said: \u201cSouth Africa\u2019s recent decision to expel Israel\u2019s top diplomat is another example of its poor foreign policy choices\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pigott accused Pretoria of expelling Seidman for \u201ccalling out\u201d the African National Congress party\u2019s alleged ties to Hamas and \u201cother antisemitic radicals,\u201d arguing that the move prioritises \u201cgrievance politics over the good of South Africa and its citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South African Foreign Ministry on Friday announced that Seidman had been declared persona non grata over \u201ca series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice which pose a direct challenge to South Africa\u2019s sovereignty\u201d, including remarks deemed insulting to President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pretoria also gave Seidman 72 hours to leave the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tit-for-tat response on the same day, Tel Aviv declared South Africa\u2019s senior diplomatic representative persona non grata, ordering him to leave the country within 72 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seidman has served as Israel\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires since November 2023, when Israel recalled its ambassador after South Africa withdrew its diplomats from Tel Aviv over Israel\u2019s genocidal war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa, which maintains relations with both Israel and Palestine, filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December 2023, accusing it of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its actions against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, the court has issued a series of provisional measures ordering Israel to take steps to prevent acts of genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 71 000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and over 171 000 others injured in the Israeli war since October 2023, with the number increase as Israel continues it genocidal actions. -Anadulo Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pretoria declared Israel\u2019s acting ambassador persona non grata over &#8216;a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,107,24,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-south-africa","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-zionist"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>11 months ago Trump expelled Ebrahim Rasool. 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