PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa was set this week to participate in a critical indaba in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, aimed at forcing Israel to stop its obliteration of Palestine’s Gaza Strip in which the population faces potential extinction.
The Cairo Summit, to feature at least a dozen heads of state – mostly from the Arab world – was expected to press harder than the failed attempts by Russia and China at the UN Security Council to push through a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
Earlier last week Jordan, a key player in pursuit of a two-state solution that will include the establishment of a free, independent state of Palestine existing side-by-side with Israel, cancelled a scheduled face-to-face meeting with US President Joe
