In an earlier article, I questioned whether or not Donald Trump would shield Benjamin Netanyahu from the ICC arrest warrant and respect and cling to the worldwide rule of legislation.
In another, I deliberated whether or not he would uphold the US House of Representatives’ sanctions in opposition to the ICC or drop them.
In a third, I questioned if Trump, like Bibi and Biden, would additionally succumb to Samson Syndrome.
Well, over the previous few weeks, I feel I obtained my answers. And it’s beginning to seem like a worst-case situation…
IT’S NOT ABOUT…WHAT TRUMP SAYS IT’S ABOUT
The previous few weeks have seen fairly the topsy-turvy, hurly-burly hullabaloo in SA politics since Trump and Musk put the obvious spotlight of world attention squarely on our nation – for all of the wrong causes.
We’re being informed the US is concentrating on and sanctioning SA as a result of Trump believes our authorities is “stealing” land from white people, white farmers are being ethnically cleansed in a “genocide“, and all sorts of other “terrible things” are happening in our nation. (Let’s be sincere, on that final one, he’s not far mistaken – however that’s one other dialog).
However, as a number of analysts and experts have identified, it’s not in regards to the EWC Land Act or the alleged “persecution” of Afrikaners.
It’s about one thing else…
It’s about SA’s genocide case on the ICJ in opposition to Israel. It’s about our authorities’s support for the Palestinian trigger, Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. It’s about our bond with Russia, China and Cuba. And, in fact, it’s about our membership in BRICS.
USA FOREVER BULLYING THE WORLD INTO WAR
America is endlessly telling us who we must always love and who we must always hate. Notice that? For nearly a century, they’ve made a daily, divisive, filthy behavior of bullying the entire world into loving their allies and hating their enemies.
From the Korean and Vietnam wars, once we needed to hate these “zipperhead gooks”, to the chilly battle, once we needed to hate these “pinko commie” Russians and Chinese, to the Global War on Terror, once we needed to hate these “raghead camel jockeys”, the Arabs.
Now it seems to be like we’ve obtained one more American President and his administration telling the world who to hate and who to like.
“You gotta hate Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, North Korea, Russia and China…but love Israel.” They’re telling us.
MOST OF THE WEST BLINDLY FOLLOWS THE US
And a lot of the white, Christian Zionist, Western world, together with the vast majority of (white) South Africa, simply blindly go proper together with the hatred, bigotry and persecution… like Klansmen in a bloodthirsty lynch mob.
You’d suppose that after centuries of slavery and a long time of colonisation and apartheid, (white) saffers would’ve by now realized a factor or two about standing as much as discrimination, prejudice and ethno-racial hatred as an alternative of all the time kowtowing to their Western puppet masters.
Man, it’s instances like these that I want Madiba have been nonetheless with us. Say what you want, love him or hate him, however at the very least Mandela had the intelligence, conscience, backbone, and guts… to face as much as imperialism.
Nowhere was that extra evident than throughout his anti-war speech in Johannesburg simply over 20 years in the past.
WHEN MADIBA HELD A MIRROR UP TO AMERICA
Last month was the twenty second anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s highly effective smackdown of the US over their push for battle in Iraq.
At the International Women’s Forum meeting in Johannesburg on 30 January 2003, Madiba berated then-US president George W. Bush and British PM Tony Blair for defying the UN and pushing forward with their unlawful invasion of Iraq.
Mandela stated, “Both Bush and Tony Blair are undermining their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the Secretary-General of the United Nations is now a Black man? They never did that when the SGs were white.”
Ouch! But that wasn’t the one burn.
USA HAS COMMITTED ‘UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES’
Madiba slammed Bush for the idiot he’s.
“What I’m condemning is that one (super) power – with a president who has no foresight and cannot think properly – is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.”
Then Mandela actually caught the knife in. “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world”, he reminded us, “it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.”
Eina! But he wasn’t performed but.
Next, he introduced up that uncomfortable, inconvenient, shameful shadow in America’s historical past…
ONLY ONE COUNTRY IN HISTORY HAS NUKED ANOTHER
He reminded us how, close to the tip of WW2, when Japan was retreating on all fronts, the US determined to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing a whole bunch of hundreds and wounding tens of hundreds extra, with Japan nonetheless feeling the results to this present day.
Madiba additionally pointed out what few realised and even thought of on the time. “Those bombs were not aimed against the Japanese; they were aimed against the Soviet Union, to say, ‘Look, this is the power we have. If you dare oppose us, this will happen to you.’”
He then requested, “Who are they (the US) now to pretend that they are the policemen of the world?”
That was not the primary time Madiba schooled the US, and the remainder of the West, on doing the suitable factor…
MADIBA’S KILLER KOPPEL INTERVIEW
In June 1990, lower than six months after he was launched from jail, Mandela appeared in a Town Hall particular options interview with ABC anchor Ted Koppel in entrance of a packed reside viewers of at the very least 1000 folks.
During that interview, the viewers and journalists obtained to ask Madiba questions. One MSM political journalist stood up and requested about Mandela’s allegiance to Gaddafi, Arafat and Castro. The sock-puppet stenographer journo was mainly regurgitating Western speaking factors that portrayed these leaders as “dictators” or “terrorists.”
He snidely requested Mandela, “Are these your models of leaders of human rights – and if so, would you want a Gaddafi or an Arafat or a Castro to be a future president of South Africa?”
THEY’RE YOUR ENEMIES, NOT OURS
Mandela flashed the journalist a short look, then turned to the viewers and said…
“One of the mistakes some political analysts make…is to think that their enemies…should be our enemies.”
The room erupted with applause. Many within the audience rose to their toes, clapping like maniacs.
Madiba went on: “That…we can and we will never do”, he affirmed. “Our attitude towards any country is determined by the attitude of that country to our struggle.”
Again, extended applause and cheers.
SOMEONE SHOULD TELL TRUMP
Tata continued, “Yassar Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi and Fidel Castro support our struggle to the hilt. There is no reason whatsoever why we should have any hesitation…about hailing their commitment to human rights – as they are being demanded in South Africa.”
Madiba wasn’t performed but. “Our attitude is based solely on the fact that they fully support the anti-apartheid struggle. They do not support it only in rhetoric, they are placing resources at our disposal for us to wage the struggle. That…is the position.”
Arguably, Mandela’s Town Hall interview and anti-war speech have been a part of the rationale why he and the ANC have been left on the USA’s terrorist watchlist till 2008.
Maybe somebody ought to present them each to Donald Trump.
WHAT SAY YOU, SA? SHOULD THE WEST’S ENEMIES ALWAYS BE OUR ENEMIES?
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