CRUZ Re: Apartheid: "And The World United Against South Africa..." (Umm...except Reagan and the GOP)

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Ted Cruz gets his underwear in a twist over Kerry's remarks equating Israel's treatment of Palestinians to South African Apartheid.

"The oppressive regime in South Africa, where black South Africans were treated as second class citizens, were systematically discriminated against. And the world united against South Africa! We saw the heroic battle of Nelson Mandela against the injustice and evil that was apartheid."

Uh...well, not the ENTIRE world, Mr. Turniphead. The Reagan State Department added Mandela's party to it's TERRORIST list, and Republicans filibustered the Democratic Party's Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid (sanctions) Act in the Senate in 1985. When the House and Senate managed to pass a watered down version of the Anti-Apartheid bill in 1986, that the GOP Senators wouldn't filibuster, REAGAN VETOED IT. So, Congress had to go back and OVERRIDE Reagan's VETO.

So, apparently your comment about 'the whole world' uniting against South African apartheid was a little...revisionist?

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1. iirc, north korea stuck up for apartheid south africa as well!

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2. And the other 'elephant in the room' (so to speak) is that Israel, whom Cruz is defending here,

so far has remained neutral on the invasion of Ukraine. So, Cruz's rhetoric about Israel being our staunch ally etc., was also a little revisionist.