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MAGRIETHA DU PLESSIS's avatar

I do not normally like to comment on these articles, but I just want to draw your attention to the fact that you must please not rely on the official media for the truth nor the rantings of expats with a grievance. The US has gone and killed the one man that was stopping Iran from making a nuclear weapon and now they will learn from North Korea, if you have a nuclear weapon they leave you alone! As Alexander Mercurius would say "just saying"

Nicholas Woode-Smith's avatar

If your neighbour kept throwing bricks at your windows and yelling death threats at you, and you heard they were purchasing a gun, what would you do?

MAGRIETHA DU PLESSIS's avatar

It seems to be you and me again. I think we just come from different views. What I can say is that Iran most definitely does not pose any threat to US. And if Israel was my neighbour I would most certainly throw rocks at their window and not only buy a gun but lots of amo. 😒

MAGRIETHA DU PLESSIS's avatar

Because Netanyahu is a homicidal maniac as are the Zionists. Understand me well I am not an anti semitic, but I am an anti Zionist and there is a very big difference. I know the west has a very different idea of him, but more and more people are coming round to see it. As far as Trump goes, please! That is all I am going to say.

Nicholas Woode-Smith's avatar

But you said you'd be fine throwing bricks at your neighbour if they were Israel, and that you'd want to buy a gun.

Not all Israelis are Netanyahu. The vast majority of Israelis were born there. They have never known another home.

Are you fine with your brick hitting one of them in the head?

MAGRIETHA DU PLESSIS's avatar

I hear you and agree, most Israelis are wonderful people but until they grow a backbone and get rid of Netanyahu it is the problem. He has so much influence over Trump the Trump even tried to get the Israeli president to withdraw criminal charges against him, that is also why he has to keep the war going.

Have you ever wondered what happened to the wonderful Israeli security, as good is that one previous Mossad member said not even a cat can cross the border without being detected? I wonder?

Tao Of Freedom's avatar

Your statement: "Yet South Africa also knows, from its own history, how regimes can cloak repression in revolutionary language."

The Iranian regime does exactly that, cloaking repression in revolutionary language.

South Africa has its problems but it remains nonetheless a global beacon of democracy, the women of South Africa who are the backbone of the country enjoy arguably one of the highest levels of women rights in the world, they can be sovereign individuals.

The women of Iran?

Iran is a strange bedfellow.