Why the ECAJ follows the world in elevating Mandela to sainthood; and at the same time going against the world in reducing Arafat to the dustbin of history seems a contradiction. Both men led similar lives. So similar, in fact, that at the height of their fame and power they met and embraced in mutual respect.
Mandela and Arafat had a common enemy: a racialist state that imposed totalitarian measures to counter the demographic reality on the ground. Poor Israel and poor South Africa under the Nationalist Party found themselves submerged by an alien and hostile people, who, if given voting rights and full integration into society, would change the culture and politics of the nation through sheer demographic strength alone.
So why the contradiction? Why is it true and just of Israel to maintain its Jewish identity and way of life but not true and just of the Afrikaner to do so?
Unfortunately, I can only come up with one explanation: a bias against gentile-whites, and a bias in favour of Jews. This contradiction is not explicable by the old saying 'it it good for the Jews?', since the Jews gained nothing by ending apartheid (despite being virtually 100% of its opponents). The Afrikaner, however, did lose something. And it is the loss of the Afrikaner that motivates these people.
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