Video Infoblog with Transcript: Viral Minister Naledi Pandor Speech on Israel Shocks the World!

 

Transcript

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well if you

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think that we act in support of

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Palestine because of Elections this year

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you don't know South African history you

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don't know the history of Liberation and

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struggle we didn't meet the Palestinian

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people on October

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8th we've been together in struggle for

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many many

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decades the people of Palestine

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trained the Freedom Fighters of The

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Liberation movement it's

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not this is a

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relationship of Freedom Fighters of

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activists of Nations that share a

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history a history of struggle for

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justice and

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freedom we didn't meet Palestinian

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people yesterday

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this country's

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leaders in the course of

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struggle

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led by our then President Oliver

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Tumo did something no leaders have done

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before Oliver

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tumble went throughout the

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world because at the time we had

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nothing

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all we had was our desire for

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Freedom he went from country to Country

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worldwide and said join us in

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solidarity even if you give us a PIN to

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hold up our trousers and our skirts do

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something with us in

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international

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solidarity the concept International

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solidarity

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was

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coined through the work of Oliver tumble

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as a facet of struggle as one of the

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rounds one of the principles of struggle

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that wherever oppression might

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occur whichever corner you live in if

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you can act act in the interest of those

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who suffer Injustice

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this principle is one on which we have

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fought our struggle as the African

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National

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Congress this principle is why we

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support the people of Cuba as we believe

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no people should be denied rights no

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people should be sanctioned for no

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reason no people should stuer because of

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their

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ideology they pose you no threat they

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can do you no harm but you deny them

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access to Goods this cannot be tolerated

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and when we see that

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Injustice as South Africans committed to

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Justice to human dignity to

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equality all values you

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priz because they're in your

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Constitution values that are not just

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for you values that apply to all

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Humanity

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as a Muslim this is what I believe and

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I'm glad the African National Congress

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shares those

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values so it is

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not it is not a matter of yesterday it

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is not a matter of the election tomorrow

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it's an issue of Justice it's an issue

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of fighting colonialism it's an issue of

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fighting racism it's an issue of

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fighting occupation it's an issue of

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upholding the charter of the United

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Nations which says every nation deserves

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their Sovereign Integrity the people of

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Palestine deserve their Sovereign right

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to their

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land then

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uh on the humanitarian

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Aid I think what you have seen in

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Palestine my dear sister is that there

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is an attack on all those who provide

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humanitarian Aid the allegations against

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the workers of unra which are

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allegations that have been made for many

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years and where we've not seen a single

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shred of evidence being provided this is

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all an attempt to ensure that the people

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of Palestine are

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denied basic goods and

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services so what we should ad advise is

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that the persons you refer to should

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approach the remaining un offices for

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assistance we are also working with

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non-governmental

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organizations in

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Palestine in Gaza in the West Bank and

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so we should approach those

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organizations that are human rights

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organizations that will be able to

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direct people to where there is a

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but what we all have to fight for

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here and I've asked this everywhere I've

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spoken if you have a few

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hours could you take your

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time and just make a

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poster the poster should read stop

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genocide and go and stand outside five

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embassies

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there are five primary supporters of

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Israel I'm not going to name them for

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you you must do your

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work as the women in black did for us

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when we're fighting

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upart stand up and

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petition stand up and protest stand up

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and be

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visible don't only come to this dinner

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be visible in support of the people of

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Palestine be

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visible sign a petition in Cape Town I

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said they want to destroy unra let's

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make sure we provide funding for it I

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said this at the mosque and

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alhamdulillah our people have come

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forward we've got money we will send it

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to the comrades so let us not just be

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visible in a protest March or in a

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meeting let's just take 10 of us not

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many and we say today on Monday for 2

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hours you'll be at this Embassy you'll

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be at that one you'll be every day it

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pinches that

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visibility but our

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silence allows

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Injustice so let us stand up

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[Applause]

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[Music]

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indeed you are right mulana we are

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dealing with the geopolitics of

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today there's a fierce fight going on

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because

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unipolarity and hegemony has been

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allowed to go on for too long and now

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with

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bricks with China

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emerging unipolarity stands challenged

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and the fight against multipolarity is

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going to be

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fierce so we need to support

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organizations that support

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multilateralism and a world where

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different ideas can Thrive and live side

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by

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side but we are fighting a big

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geopolitical war and this is the moment

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where the South can take its place

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properly in the global

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[Applause]

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geopolitics then

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uh we I've already issued a statement

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alerting those who are South African and

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who are fighting alongside or in the

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Israeli Defense Force we are ready when

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you come home we're going to arrest

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you

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I I don't want us to be assigning

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trivial matters to the government I

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believe there are roles the government

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should play we must carry on a very good

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case at the icj but you must be

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activists you must also play a

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role you must say thank you Al

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Al

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goodbye and don't book on them whatever

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just make it clear how you

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feel really they're stopping their

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flights because they don't have

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passengers from here and they're

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pretending it's something

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[Applause]

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big I'm going to ask

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you because here inasia and

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Lam I know many of you are significant

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business people

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I want to ask

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you join your country in building your

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country's

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economy lots of you are investing all

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over the world but you're not investing

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capital in your country and we need it

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desperately we need to create

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jobs we need to help young people to

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understand that they shouldn't just look

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for jobs they must start

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Enterprises and what better teacher than

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our community who are among the best

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business people in South Africa let's

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contribute to building our

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country today is the last time I want to

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say this I fully support president

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Raposa I'm so glad we've got a president

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who's determined to fight corruption and

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I will stand with him I will stand with

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him

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I have no interest in being a president

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I think it's the worst job in the

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world I as I've said before I love

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serving the people I'm a public servant

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and I'm happy to remain as a public

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[Applause]

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servant on on

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Hamas let let me explain it's this

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complication

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firstly the policy of thec and

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government has always been that we

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support a two-state

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solution that Israel and Palestine

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should be two nation states living side

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by side in peace and

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Security in the final analysis however

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what

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eventually obtains will will be

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determined by the people of Palestine

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right very very important that we

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recognize that just as we determine the

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course of our own history we must allow

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Palestinian people to do the same but

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it's also

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important that I say to you in terms of

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our foreign

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policy our foreign policy promotes peace

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and

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negotiation and I can

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cannot I

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cannot criticize Israel for killing

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women and

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children

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brutally and then say I praise Hamas for

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holding innocent Israelis

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hostage we can't do that you can do it

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you are an activist on the ground I'm a

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member of a government

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remember I as the government member

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cannot be saying that don't expect me to

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say what you

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say don't we are different I represent

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all of South Africa you can

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represent a small grouping or a large

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grouping but I have a responsibility to

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ensure that I reflect the full policy of

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our

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country and I do think that I worry I've

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said this to my

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friends that I am

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concerned that the Palestinian people

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have been left in the most terrible

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position to be exposed to such danger

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and harm but I know that the Palestinian

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people have suffered for so long that

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they're prepared to resist until the end

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and that is

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important so we will stand with the

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Palestinian people people we will be

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guided by the Palestinian people but I

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cannot as a South African say I go with

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fata or I go with Hamas or I go with

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faction Group C of pello I

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cannot what I am concerned about is as

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part of the government of South Africa I

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should continue wherever I am to support

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this important struct Le for the just

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freedom and rights of the people of

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Palestine and I'll do that wherever I

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am

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finally I've answered the question of

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our elections I want to assure you the

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gentleman who posed this very important

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question you asked a very very important

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question but I want to really say to you

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I think we should

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appreciate who and what South Africa is

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why in

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1995 would Nelson Mandela say our

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freedom is

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incomplete without the freedom of the

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Palestinian people and it wasn't an

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election it's the position of the

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African National Congress it was then it

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is

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today and I think I pause there thank

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you thank you very much

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Minister let's go to you do you want to

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