Oliver Tambo Quotes
There is nothing in ANC policy which calls for attacks on civilians in supermarkets, schools, and cinemas unless these are regarded as military installations.
Tambo, Oliver. Preparing for Power: Oliver Tambo Speaks. Compiled by Adelaide Tambo, Heinemann, 1987.
The Nigerian Government was very slow in making a policy to protect communities against the Boko Haram, fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. The Nigerian army was totally corrupt with no interest in risking their lives, so they would rarely go after the terrorists or interpose themselves between the terrorists and their targets even when they had advance knowledge.
Hamas had fired thousands of rockets and other missiles at Israeli population centers—war crimes under the Geneva Conventions. Israel finally retaliated against Hamas facilities in Gaza. However, in an unprecedented effort to avoid civilian casualties, the Israeli Defense Forces warned the people by indicating which targets they were going to strike. They also dropped leaflets in Arabic telling the civilians that they are not the targets but to try and avoid harm to them and their families, they should evacuate the neighborhoods that would be under attack. Hamas had placed their missile launchers and other weapons in and near schools, hospitals, mosques and civilian housing risking their civilian population—see {640841}.
small Jewish Zionist groups who unlike the majority Jewish organizations in Palestine used terror tactics After the 2nd World War, European Jews who had survived the holocaust were trying to emigrate to Palestine. The Arabs wanted all the Jews who were there to be gone. The English were caught in the middle and tried to limit the Jewish immigration. Most Jewish organizations worked to smuggle European Jews into Palestine but 2 small ones resorted to a type of terrorism. However, as the ambassador observed there was a large moral distinction between the terrorism of those 2 small Jewish Organizations and the current Palestinian terrorists. The important moral distinction is that the Jewish terrorists were fighting to establish their state with no program or desire to prevent Arabs from having their own state, but the Hamas terrorists of Palestine (not the Fatah Government) want not only to establish a Palestinian State but to destroy the Jewish State (Israel) and murder all the Jews that they can as their charter requires.
Islamic terrorists had killed over 30 innocent Israeli civilians—victims of suicide bombings on the Jewish religious holiday—Passover. The Council even though they opposed the Israeli occupation of The West Bank and Gaza, condemned the brutal and terrorist tactics nonetheless. Most Islamic organizations throughout the world do not speak out against terrorism as the Council does.
Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo, also known as O. R. Tambo, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.
