Joel at Guide to the Perplexed has a post on the ANC resolutions passed at their 52nd national conference at Polokwane. (See the ANC resolutions document.)
Israel, as usual, is allotted one of the largest sections in their resolutions document but there is not much change, which is bad news for Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils who had hoped to pass a resolution calling for a complete boycott of Israel. Still, as Joel notes, the resolutions indicate a “severe and irrational level of hostility towards Israel”.
66. The 60th Anniversary of the Palestinian catastrophe, known as the Nakba, which resulted in the dispossession of Palestinian lands and their birthright through a systematic policy of colonial expansion, ethnic cleansing and military occupation of the most brutal kind, which as South Africans we readily recognise from our own experience of apartheid. |
Prior to the conference a discussion document was circulated amongst ANC members. The section on International Relations included this gem.
The resolution of the Middle East and in particular Palestine: We need to strengthen the resolution as already done at the NGC of 2005 on the resolution of the Middle East question and the Independence of Palestine, coexisting along side peaceful Israel. We have to re-look at the resolution in relation to the new developments in the Middle East and forging strategic links with Iran and Syria, and others towards developing common approach on the matter, for just solutions on the matter. |
Worryingly, whilst the resolution does call for the strengthening of an independent Palestinian state, it omits the part about the state existing alongside a peaceful Israel. On the plus side however, there is also no mention of the forging of links with Iran and Syria. (Though I believe this is nonetheless both government and ANC policy.)
Head over to Guide to the Perplexed for more.
Is this the ANC of freedom, democracy fairness and reason or is it the ANC that is against all that is good and righteous.
To be against all good and for all evil, as the ANC regime is is called Satanism.
SA has a Satanist government.
Posted by: Gary | January 24, 2008 at 17:03