- Mandela fought apartheid in South Africa Aser Arafat was fighting the war in Palestine Mandela said our liberation is incomplete without the liberation of Palestine

Johannesburg: Muslim countries are not very active in the Israel-Hamas war. A meeting of the 'Organization of Islamic Countries' (OIC) was called for some time ago. But no action was taken beyond the 'condemnation motion'. It is 11 thousand km from Israel. Far away South Africa is hitting hard. He has also filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice. Then the question is why South Africa shows so much interest in Gaza? So the reasons are decades old.

Arafat also stood at the airport to greet Nelson Mandela at the airport when he flew to Zambia two weeks after he was freed from prison for fighting apartheid in South Africa. Embracing them, the two leaders swore to stand together in the struggle.

Mandela believed that, like the black people of South Africa, the Palestinians are also troubled. They must get freedom. When he was elected president in 1994, he thanked the international community for helping him. But after his swearing-in ceremony, he said that our freedom and liberation is incomplete without the freedom and liberation of the Palestinians. From that day Africa is pro-Palestinians. Even today it supplies weapons to the Palestinians.

Mandela's party is a member of the African National Congress. Current President Cyril Ramaphosa follows the policies of the late President Nelson Mandela, so he also supports the Palestinians. Recently he was seen standing with a Palestinian flag during his lectures.