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During a conference sponsored by the Pan African Palestinian Solidarity Network in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson and a member of South Africa’s National Assembly, blamed “neo-Nazis,” Israel, and NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“The global military-industrial complex, which is beating the drums of war in Ukraine, is the sole beneficiary of an agenda,” Mandela remarked.
“Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq lie in ruins behind them. Neo-Nazis in Ukraine, Apartheid Israel’s war dogs, and NATO members focused on pushing cold war politics are all joining them in this shameful endeavor.”
Mandela said that the world was acting with “deep hypocrisy, the worst kind of myopia, and open bigotry” in the face of the crisis.
“The general panic of COVID-19, together with the wars in Syria, Yemen, and the occupation of Palestine, has vanished from the media headlines,” Mandela stated at the conference. “The warmongers have forgotten about millions of Africans’ suffering, endemic poverty, inequality, and the cruel legacy of scars left on our continent by centuries of colonialism and the ongoing plunder of our resources, particularly by our former colonial masters and new ones like Apartheid Israel.”
The war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the South African MP, has been “orchestrated” for the past eight years. At no point in his address did he specifically acknowledge Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We must reflect deeply on what has transpired on our continent and how the Apartheid Israel regime and its Zionist lobbying machine has crept insipidly into the African psyche and wormed itself into our structures overtly and covertly,” Mandela said of Israel being granted observer status in the African Union.
