(JNS) Etgar Lefkovits - Israel has thwarted an effort by South Africa and Algeria to deprive it of observer status in the African Union, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said on Tuesday. The initiative to oust Israel from the AU, as well as the effort to have it cut off relations with Israel and accuse it of genocide, all failed in a weekend vote at the AU annual conference in Ethiopia, as a coalition of African states formed to oppose the move. Dan Diker, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, noted, "Regretfully, South Africa has not overcome its apartheid past and instead of progressing with the rest of the African continent has regressed to become a proxy of the Iranian regime, as we previously saw with the weaponization of the ICJ [International Court of Justice] against Israel."
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