“He once reminded us: ‘We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.’
He was not making a geopolitical argument. He was making a moral one.
Today Gaza confronts this Assembly with the same question that apartheid once posed to the world. Does international law apply equally to everyone?
If the answer depends on geography...
If it depends on alliances...
If it depends on military strength…
If it depends of race…
If it depends on religion…
Then it is no longer law. It is power. And its opposite is oppression.
Mandela knew war. He understood violence. But he also understood that the systematic erosion of human dignity can never become the price of political expediency”- @RediTlhabi
Every 1 in 4 humans on this planet live under some form of American economic terrorism; whether that's sanctions, embargoes or blocakdes. From Venezuela to Cuba, from Iran to Yemen— the US punishes and murders ordinary people every day for refusing to bow down to Washington.