U.S. lawmakers want Mandela off terror list

"Some U.S. lawmakers are trying to pass legislation to remove former South African President Nelson Mandela from a U.S. list of terrorists by his 90th birthday next month, officials said on Thursday."

I'd bet most Americans didn't know this great man was ever on the US Terrorist List. But, their government, in support of the racist South African government, placed President Mandela on the Terrorist List even while he was serving a 27 year prison term on Robbins Island. His crime? Fighting against apartheid - Some terrorist...

Finding Mandela

"Several years ago, a high-level Israeli official asked me to tell him everything I could about how the Israelis might find their Palestinian Mandela. His question was interesting and appropriate but also troubling because the Afrikaners didn’t really “find” Mandela. It took several months before the answer came to me. Show me the Palestinian to whom you Israelis are willing to lose, and I will to show you your Palestinian Mandela. My friend had overlooked the fact that Mandela and the African National Congress had won in South Africa."