South Africa's legal war over Gaza

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"We've identified about 75 South Africans who we believe served in the IDF at one point or the other," Boda says.

"We believe that there is prima facae evidence against all of them. We have informants from South African police stations, whose identity we are currently protecting for their safety, who have pinpointed which of their fellow South African police force reservists went to Gaza to fight in the war. We have pictorial evidence as well."

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Even if war crimes and crimes against humanity cannot be proven, there is another more obvious charge for South Africans who fought for Israel. A South African law, the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act, bars any citizen from fighting for a foreign force without express government permission.

South Africa's most influential Jewish organisation, the Jewish Board of Deputies, strongly condemned the Goldstone report and has been quick to dismiss the Gaza docket.

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/200910298247857309.html

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1. Surprising, because

there were many Jewish people who helped the Blacks in South Africa against Apartheid, the most prominent being Helen Suzman.

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2. I understand Mr Goldstone is Jewish too.

You just never know what people are going to do.

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3. Yep, you just have to look at

Lieberman and Grayson.