Refusing to accept the Zionist regime in the African Union was not only considered as a new and humiliating defeat for the regime, but would have a very negative impact on another set of efforts to legitimize Israel. Jafar Qanadbashi – Expert on Africa affairs AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Despite the Zionist regime’s intense and comprehensive attempts to gain the observer status at the African Union, the African governments unanimously refused to accept the membership and rejected what the African Union Commission (AUC) had previously accepted in an unconsidered move without taking views of its member states into consideration. Various...