Chapter 18 — The Colonialist Rottweiler in Africa and Asia
Zionism is colonialism
Africa
In the years 1884 and 1885, the Berlin Conference formalized European colonization of Africa. Prior to this time, world superpowers such as Portugal, France, and Britain had already set up colonies in Africa. To a smaller extent, Germany and Italy had, too. By 1900, when the force of the quick colonization was over, the majority of the land in Africa was divided up amongst seven different European colonizing nations: Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Portugal.
From 1881 to 1914 in what was known as the Scramble for Africa, several European nations took control over areas of the African continent. By 1914, around 90% of Africa was under European rule.
(Colonialism In Africa, World Atlas)
The above is the sanitized version glossing over the racist, greedy genocidist invasion of the African continent.
It was during this colonialist “scramble” that zionism came to the fore, riding on the back of imperialism.
Herzl himself had even consulted with Cecil Rhodes (apartheid Rhodesia was named after him), “a colonial expert,” on how to win British support for their venture.
(Balfour Declaration: A Convergence Of Zionist Ambition And The British Imperial Enterprise, James Zogby, Huffington Post, 10/28/2017)
Quoting from Chapter 1:
Cecil Rhodes is quoted as once saying:
“I contend that we (the British) are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race,”
(The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes : with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator, W.T. Stead, 1902)
The same year he made this supremacist statement, Herzl sent a (groveling) letter to him:
“You are being invited to help make history..[I]t doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you?..Because it is something colonial… [Y]ou, Mr. Rhodes, are a visionary politician or a practical visionary… I want you to.. put the stamp of your authority on the Zionist plan and to make the following declaration to a few people who swear by you: I, Rhodes have examined this plan and found it correct and practicable. It is a plan full of culture, excellent for the group of people for whom it is directly designed, and quite good for England, for Greater Britain….”
(January 1902, Hertzl Diaries, (note 17), iii.1193–1194)
Just a year after this letter was sent, the “Uganda Scheme” was presented at the Sixth zionist congress in Basel in 1903. The offer had been made by Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, a close associate of Rhodes. Chamberlain received Herzl in his office (introduced by zionist Israel Zangwill, a friend of Herzl) just weeks after the Kishinev pogroms and offered Uganda as a solution.
(Rovner, Adam, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Zion)
Chamberlain also introduced Herzl to Lloyd George’s law firm in 1903.
(America and the founding of Israel: An investigation of the morality of America’s role, John Mulhall)
He worked as a legal advisor to help convey British support for Jewish autonomy in Uganda.
(JTA, Mr. Lloyd George Was Legal Adviser to Dr. Herzl on Uganda Project, Jan 15, 1931)
At least three closely trusted colleagues of Rhodes would be pivotal in the Balfour Declaration. Arthur Balfour, Lord Rothschild and Leopoldo Amery. All three belonged to “The Secret Society of Cecil Rhodes”. A group of rich elitists and their (influential) “helpers”, formed to establish and strengthen a global British Empire.
(The Secret Society of Cecil Rhodes, Chapter Three, The Anglo-American Establishment, Carroll Quigley, 1981)
At this time Balfour was the Prime Minister of Britain (1902–1905).
His very close relationship to Lord Rothschild makes it more than likely that the essence of the Balfour Declaration had been in motion for many years.
Quoting from Chapter 2:
Think about this. The wishes of unelected zionists who represented a tiny percentage of Judaism, and who appeared on the UK scene just a decade before, overrode the real concerns of those high up within the British establishment. Again, it’s no coincidence that the main protagonists: Balfour, Leopold Amery and Lord Rothschild, were within Cecil Rhodes’ “secret society” inner circle. Rhodes had died in 1902, but his closest colleagues had access to the system and connections that he had built up. Just as Louis Brandeis and his “zionist lieutenants” had done in the US during the same period.
The failing zionist project in Palestine after the Balfour Declaration was manouevred in to place in 1917, saw their leadership swarm around the emerging fascist movement. And they had introduced supremacist, apartheid policies long before South Africa.
In 1934 fascist racists Ze’ev Jabotinsky and Wolfgang von Weisl founded the Revisionist Zionism movement.
Revisionist Zionism, an open advocate of fascism, was officially founded in 1925 by Ze’ev Jabotinsky.
Wolfgang von Weisl joined Jabotinsky in 1925 to become one of the founders of revisionism. He was Jabotinsky’s financial director. And a supporter of fascism. He described the victory of fascist Italy over Abyssinia (Ethiopia) as “a triumph of the White races against the Black”
(“Dr. von Weisl Believes in Fascism,” 6/12/34 World Jewry, a London Jewish establishment journal.)
After the ethnic cleansing and slaughter of Palestinians in 1948, zionism set its focus on the “quality” of Jewish immigrant. Even though their colonialist program was still failing. Much of the leadership of zionism (among them Dr. Max Nordau, Theodor Herzl’s colleague, a doctor and a publicist, and Dr. Arthur Ruppin, the head of the World Zionist Organization office in the Land of Israel) even tried to mirror the eugenic policies of Nazi Germany and the US.
They even set up a Nordau Club with the aim of researching the racial aspects of the Jewish people and ways of improving it.
(Doctoral thesis written by Sachlav Stoler- Liss about the history of the health services in the 1950s, under the supervision of Prof. Shifra Shvarts, head of the department of health system management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; “Do Not Have Children if They Won’t Be Healthy!”, Haaretz, Tamara Traubmann, June 11, 2004)
Mizrahi (Arab) Jews were at the receiving end of these racist policies. And so were African Jews.
Allegations of official racism towards Ethiopians gained prominence in 2006 when it was admitted that for many years all their blood donations had been discarded for fear that they might be contaminated with diseases. There have also been regular reports of Ethiopian children being denied places in schools or being forced to attend separate classes. In November a survey of employers in the main professions showed that 53 per cent preferred not to hire an Ethiopian.
(Israel’s treatment of Ethiopians ‘racist’, The National News, Jonathan Cook, January 06, 2020)
Moroccan Jews were also treated with disdain.
“Those [Jews] from Morocco had no education. Their customs are those of Arabs…The culture of Morocco I would not like to have here…We don’t want Israelis to become Arabs.”
— David Ben-Gurion
(Mizrahi Jews in Israel, My Jewish Learning, Rachael Gelfman Schultz)
Dr. Giora Yoseftal sat on the Jewish Agency’s board of the absorption section of the aliyah department between 1947 and 1952 and held various ministerial positions. (Wiki)
Yoseftal [was] exposed in the television documentary “The Ancestral Sin” [in Hebrew, “Salah, Po Zeh Eretz Yisrael”]. He said that the immigrants from North Africa were worthless and inferior, and that they would degrade society there.
(‘Doctors Will Never Admit They’re Racists’, Haaretz, Ayelett Shani, April 21, 2018)
This blatant racism against Moroccan Jews in the zionist-described “safe haven” came to an ugly head during the fifties when the US financially backed what turned out to be radiation experiments used on them. Using the excuse of ringworm, they overdosed thousands of Moroccans, resulting in the deaths of over six thousand.
(Chapter 5)
Egypt
The fifties was also the decade during which zionists in Palestine spread their cruelty across the North African border in to Egypt with the backing of two colonialist powers who saw their grip on power there threatened. France and Britain.
Quoting from Chapter 7:
In the midst of “peace talk attempts”, on 2 July 1954, an Israeli “sleeper” cell in Egypt detonated bombs at a post office in Alexandria. And on 14 July, it bombed the libraries of the US Information Agency in Alexandria and Cairo, and a British-owned theater.
The commander of the army at the time, Lt. Gen. Moshe Dayan, described the plan, after it had failed, in a November 1, 1954, meeting of the IDF General Staff. “The goal was to interfere with the [British] withdrawal from the Suez by taking actions that would seem to have been done by the Egyptians and would create tension between the Egyptians and the English,” the IDF Archives memo from the meeting shows.
(New revelations in Lavon Affair raise more questions than they answer, Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel, 12 May 2015)
Israel playing on the fears of nations to get what they want. But they were now going to step their game up.
Peres informed the French that Israel had decided upon war with Egypt in 1956….Peres asked for the French, who had emerged as Israel’s closest ally by this point, to give Israel all the help they could give in the coming war.
(Warriors at Suez : Eisenhower takes America into the Middle-East. pp 235)
France and Britain had been skirting around going to war or doing something with Egypt, but Israel made their play and acted as the catalyst.
Only after US President Eisenhower’s (genuine) threats of sanctions against Israel and Britain did their forces withdraw. Leaving in their wake a trail of war crimes and massacres that would go on periodically for decades.
Algeria
The fifties was also the decade when another North African country, Algeria, became the focus of Israel and it’s colonial genocidist ally, France.
Quoting from Chapter 12:
The Algerian War of Independence to remove French colonialists from Algeria lasted from 1954–1962. Depending on the source, between 500,000 and 1.5 million lost their lives. The higher figure is said to be much more likely.
War crimes and torture were a frequent process in use from the beginning of the [edit: genocidal] colonization of Algeria which started in 1830. Crimes committed by the French before and during the war against Algerian combatants and unarmed civilians included indiscriminate bombings and shootings into civilian crowds, rape, imprisonment without food in small cells, throwing prisoners out of helicopters to their deaths or into the sea with concrete on their feet, and burying people alive.
(Edit: a dystopian nightmare similar to nazi Europe).
Torture methods included beatings, mutilations, hanging by the feet or hands, torture by electroshock, waterboarding, sleep deprivation and sexual assaults. 2 million Algerians were also deported in internment camps, with some being forced in to labour.
(Torture during the Algerian War of Independence — Wikipedia)
Peace negotiations with the Algerian rebels (FLN) began in January 1961 after a French referendum set in motion by French premier Charles DeGaulle, voted in favour of self determination for Algeria.
Right wing French generals in Algeria attempted a coup there when the referendum overwhelmingly went against the colonialists (75%), and tried to spread dissent to “mainland” France. It failed.
What has this got to do with Israel?
Running parallel to the aforementioned intrigue, in 1944, Jacques Soustelle became Minister of Information and, subsequently, Minister of Colonies. In 1955, he would be appointed Governor-General of Algeria. He was withdrawn a year later. When De Gaulle returned to power in 1958, he made him Minister of Information and then a deputy Foreign Minister.
(Joan Cook, Jacques Soustelle, Leader in Fight For a French Algeria, Dies at 78, New York Times, 9 August 1990.)
Soustelle, a fervent zionist, helped to create, and presided over, the pro-Israel lobbying group Alliance France-Israel in November 1956.
(Israel and the politics of boycott, Joseph Massad, Al Jazeera, March 2013; Jews in France Welcome Appointment of Soustelle; Fought Anti-semitism, JTA, March 1958)
Soustelle was among the forces behind the military pact between France and Israel. He was a personal friend of Ben Gurion and Shimon Peres as well as Herut/Irgun leaders such as Menchamin Begin. He paid numerous visits to Israel.
(FRENCH FRIEND JACQUES SOUSTELLE DIES AT AGE 78, The Jerusalem Post, 8 August 1990)
Israeli historian Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi described Soustelle as being one of “Israel’s friends in France,”
(Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. The Israeli Connection — Who Israel Arms and Why. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), p. 220)
Remember the following within the context of the Suez Canal crisis, where zionists had created World War Three conditions hand in hand with France and Britain in 1956 (Chapter 6).
Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University relates:
When the Algerian revolt started in November 1954, the French decided to increase their arms sales to the Israelis.
The French military allied with the Israelis who both saw Algerian revolutionaries and anti-imperialist Arab leader Gamal Abdel Nasser as a common enemy.
Israel would also carry out military manoeuvers with the French on occupied Algerian territory and enlist Algerian Jews (as fighters and spies) who had been granted the same supremacist standing as French colonialists.
[Note: Remember that just a decade earlier, these same supremacists were on Hitler’s side!]
The military alliance with Israel provided arms and military training to the Israelis, and vice versa with Israeli dirty tricks training. French officers would be dispatched to Israel to learn new techniques in psychological warfare.
[Edit: is this one of the reasons why French techniques were so brutal?]
French General Maurice Challe, Commander-in-Chief of the French forces in Algeria (1958–1960), insisted in an interview with Sylvia Crosbie that the Israelis were “consummate artists” at dealing with the Palestinian natives. Challe went further and hoped to use the Kibbutz as a model for his pacification program in Algeria.
[Note: Israel would go on to push the “kibbutz program” in South and Central America from the sixties onwards as a colonialist means of “keeping the natives in order” under their oligarchs (Chapter 17)]
Israeli study missions in Algeria were also welcomed. Challe, like other generals who were friends of Israel, would participate in the failed coup of April 1961 against the French government in Algeria and would be tried by a military tribunal. Testimonies by at least one participant in the failed coup stated that the coup leaders were expecting support from a number of settler colonial powers: “Portugal, South Africa, South America, and perhaps Israel.”
Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia and South American dictators were keen Israeli supporters and military and political allies during this period and for decades to come.
Israel rushed to support the right-wing French terrorists. Aside from conscripting a number of Algerian Jews, who had joined the terrorist OAS, into Israel’s spy network, the Israelis provided logistical support to the French terrorists. This included support for Jacques Soustelle himself, who was supported by his friend Ben Gurion and was financed by rich right-wing pro-Israeli American Jews who opposed de Gaulle and Algerian independence.
Algerian Jewish commandos organised themselves in Oran against Algerian Muslims and sought partition of the colony along racial lines. They were said to be inspired in their quest by Israeli government policy [Edit: apartheid].
(Israel and the politics of boycott, Joseph Massad, Al Jazeera, March 2013)
Soustelle would have a lifelong alliance with Israel. He was a speaker at Netanyahu’s “Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism” in 1979.
(Details of participants — a who’s who of war criminals: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Jerusalem_Conference_on_International_Terrorism )
Soustelle became minister for Sahara and atomic affairs in January 1959 just as DeGaulle was beginning to question Israel’s “peaceful motives” for having nuclear power.
According to Israeli historians Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman: “There was also pressure from President DeGaulle in Paris. The French attitude toward the Middle East began to change just after he took office in 1958 . . . He suspected that the Dimona reactor was destined for military uses and this greatly annoyed the French president.”
(Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman. Every Spy a Prince. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990), pp. 71–72.)
Soustelle was also supported by the CIA. He had a luncheon meeting with Richard Bissell (then heading the CIA’s clandestine services) in Washington at a pivotal time, in December (1960).
(Claude Krief, May 1961, L’Express)
Both JFK (Chapter 9) and DeGaulle were pressuring Israel on their nuclear weapon program. One was assassinated, and one was nearly assassinated several times after a failed coup attempt. Yes, Algeria pushed French fascism to its extremes, but their alliance with Israel surely acted as a catalyst (just as it had done during the Suez “crisis”). JFK had confronted unstable elements within the CIA who were sent to Europe and who began to form an army of fascist assassins.
Soustelle would call on Jews around the world to support French colonialism in Algeria.
“We believe that given the influence which not only Israel but above all the Jewish communities throughout the world exert on international opinion, this alliance would produce happy results for us.”
(Israel and the politics of boycott, Joseph Massad, Al Jazeera, March 2013)
[Note: If anybody else had said that, they’d have been labeled an “antisemite”..]
Soustelle would join the terrorist group Organisation de l’armee secrete (OAS) in 1960 to fight against Algerian independence.
(Israel and the politics of boycott, Joseph Massad, Al Jazeera, March 2013)
Israeli intelligence also came to Soustelle’s aid when he went into exile. In 1962 Soustelle took up “hiding in Rome in the house of a furniture dealer whose brother was a representative of the [Israeli] Irgun.”
Remember that Soustelle was a friend of Begin. And he was in hiding in the hub of the Gladio network: Rome.
(Pierre Demaret and Christian Plume. Target DeGaulle. (New York: Dial Press, 1975), p. 220.)
Historian and OAS sympathizer Alexander Harrison stated that
“Some of the most ardent supporters of the OAS in Algeria were Jews…a Jewish branch of the OAS was created.”
(Alexander Harrison. Challenging DeGaulle: The OAS and the Counterrevolution in Algeria. (New York: Praeger, 1989), p. 67.)
“[The OAS] attracted hotheads including some Jews who belonged to Irgun Zvai Leumi…. They were recruited by the OAS as specialists in clandestine warfare.”
(Paul Henissart. Wolves in the City: The Death of French Algeria. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), p. 346.)
“During 1961 and 1962, there were numerous reports of Israeli support for the French OAS movement in Algeria.”
(Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. The Israeli Connection — Who Israel Arms and Why. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), pp. 44–45.)
DeGaulle coup leaders and sympathizers, including Soustelle and generals Jouhaud, Salan, and Challe were Israeli “friends” in France. When released in 1967, General Maurice Challe was hired by the Israeli (Mossad) owned Zim Shipping Company.
(The Tacit Alliance, Crosbie, 1974)
It would be revealed that Israelis had assisted the French throughout the Algerian war of independence between 1954 and 1962. Then, when Algeria was finally independent and sought admission to the UN, only Israel voted against it.
“When in 1961 the OAS was created, it was a natural development that Israel, as keen on [French retention of Algeria as a colony] as the OAS themselves, should lock themselves into the [OAS].”
(Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. The Israeli Connection — Who Israel Arms and Why. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), pp. 44–45.)
In 1967, de Gaulle evicted NATO from France to regain “full sovereignty [over] French territory”.
(Archive — Letter from President Charles de Gaulle to President Lyndon Johnson on France’s withdrawal from the NATO command structure (March 7 1966) )
Mainstream sources give a variety of reasons, but it’s no coincidence that there were multiple assassination attempts on DeGaulle’s life.
Or that the last known attempt to kill him was made on July 1, 1966 (when he made his move on expelling NATO), as De Gaulle was driven to Orly Airport to fly to the Soviet Union.
(The People’s Almanac, David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace, 1975–1981)
During a 1990 interview with Admiral Pierre Lacoste, the French chief of the secret services (DGSE), he claimed that the de Gaulle assassination attempts were orchestrated by members of the Gladio network.
(Kwitny, Jonathan (1992–04–06), “The CIA’s Secret Armies in Europe”, The Nation.)
Remember that the sixties was when the CIA and (zionist) mafia made repeated attempts to assassinate Cuba’s Castro. Just as zionist elements were at the heart of the OAS who attempted to assassinate DeGaulle (Chapter 12).
South Africa
Within a few years of zionism setting up a permanent base at the cost of Palestine, it carried out radiation experiments and stemmed the birth rate of African Jews who were conned in to coming to Palestine. It was involved in war crimes in neighbouring Egypt and aiding in the French genocide of Algerians. They then set their focus on their fellow racists and antisemites in South Africa.
The architects of apartheid there came to power the same year zionists had ethnically cleansed Palestine.
In 1948…within a few days of each other…Israel declared its independence on May 14, a fortnight before the apartheid Nationalist party won South Africa’s election and the men who backed Hitler came to power.
(Worlds apart, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
Both sets of supremacists shared the same ideals:
“There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour”
- South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd, 1950s
(“Apartheid — A History” by Brian Lapping, 1987.)
“non-Jews living under Jewish law in Eretz Yisrael (the Land of Israel) must either be enslaved as water carriers and wood hewers, or banished, or exterminated.”
— first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Palestine in 1921, rabbi Isaac Kook.
(Israel Shahak’s ‘Jewish History, Jewish Religion’)
Even their leaders agreed:
“The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.”
— Architect of apartheid and prime minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd, 1961
(Worlds apart, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
“Israel…better rid itself of the territories and their Arab population as soon as possible…If it did not Israel would soon become an apartheid state.”
— David Ben Gurion, 1967
(veteran Israeli journalist and Jerusalem Post columnist Hirsh Goodman — who was born and raised in Apartheid South Africa — went home for 48-hour military leave at the end of 1967 Six-Day War, he listened on his bedroom radio as David Ben-Gurion made this statement. Quoted from his book: “Let Me Create Paradise, God Said to Himself” (2005), p. 78)
In 1937, future prime minister of apartheid South Africa, DF Malan, in the face of growing numbers of Jews fleeing Germany, told parliament:
“I have been reproached that I am now discriminating against the Jews as Jews. Now let me say frankly that I admit that it is so.”
Hendrik Verwoerd, who would replace Malan as prime minister in the 50s, was editor of the virulently anti-semitic newspaper, Die Transvaler.
Before the second world war, the secret Afrikaner society, the Broederbond — which included Malan and Verwoerd as members — developed ties to the Nazis.
Another Broederbond member and future prime minister, John Vorster, was interned in a prison camp by Jan Smuts’s government during the war for his Nazi sympathies and ties to the Grey Shirt fascist militia.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
“We stand for Christian Nationalism which is an ally of National Socialism . . . you can call such an anti- democratic system a dictatorship if you like…In Italy it is called Fascism, in Germany National Socialism and in South Africa Christian Nationalism.”
— John Vorster, 1942
(Excerpted from The Unspoken Alliance by Sasha Polakow-Suransky)
Three decades later Vorster would be feted in Jerusalem.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
Zionism’s apologists reject comparisons between Israel and South Africa, pointing to the Afrikaner fascist, pro-nazi, Nuremburg Law type policies and stance in the 1950s through the “population registration act” but cover their ears and squeal when you point out that these laws of separation are no different from their own.
And that German zionists had actually welcomed the original Nuremburg Laws themselves with open arms as they favoured Zionism. This is documented.
(See Chapter 3)
A number of South African Jews figured prominently in the liberation movements of South Africa. But the bulk of them welcomed apartheid according to Don Krausz, chairman of Johannesburg’s Holocaust survivors association.
Both Israel and South Africa would come to depend on eachother throughout the twentieth century.
“The Nationalists had a strongly anti-semitic platform before 1948. The Afrikaans press was viciously anti-Jewish, much like Der Stürmer in Germany under Hitler. The Jew felt himself very much threatened by the Afrikaner. The Afrikaner supported Hitler…
“My wife comes from Potchefstroom [in what was then the Transvaal]. Every Jewish shop in that town was blown up by the Grey Shirts. In the communities that were predominantly Afrikaans, the Jews were absolutely victimised. Now the same crowd comes to power in 1948. The Jew was a very frightened person. There were cabinet ministers who openly supported the Nazis.”
— Don Krausz, chairman of Johannesburg’s Holocaust survivors association
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
BUT, Krausz went on to defend Afrikaner nationalism. When it was realized that the white Zionist Jew had nothing to fear. In what reminds me of the “right to exist” hasbara spin-off where everybody else can burn and die.
Quoting from the same piece:
“They did it to protect the Afrikaner, his predominance after 1948, his culture….We were white and even though the Afrikaner was no friend of ours, he was still white…the Jew in South Africa sided with the Afrikaners, not so much out of sympathy, but out of fear sided against the blacks.” — Krausz
On the one hand, Krausz painted the Afrikaners as racist — which they were — then, without a hint of realizing his contradictions or any self-examination, showed his racist streak too.
When the Afrikaner nationalists came to power, they had a “demographic problem”. The same mantra that zionists in Palestine have been repeating in the last few decades. And which led to turning Gaza in to a concentration camp and a slaughterhouse.
(See my blog: “Gaza is a genuine concentration camp”, Spanishhalyon)
They couldn’t afford to split up the “white folk”, so they made Jews exempt from apartheid laws. Some even saw similarities between Zionism and Afrikaner nationalism. Yes, they both removed the British from the equation, but they both set up an even worse colonialist system to “control the natives”.
And just as zionism used “God” as an excuse for whatever massacre, theft or racist law they create, the Dutch Reformed Church also prised justifications for apartheid out of the Old Testament. And sold the same lie that South Africa was “a land without a people…” when their ancestors first settled there.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
Daniel Malan, antisemitic PM of South Africa visited Israel in 1953. The first foreign PM to do so.
(The Diplomacy of Isolation, Geldenhuys, 1984)
In 1960, Yaakov Meridor, leader of the Herut Party — Menchamen Begin’s fascist party — stated that he openly supported the SA apartheid policy.
(The Foreign Policy System of Israeli, Brecher, 1972)
In 1962, Israel sold 32 Centurion tanks to South Africa (SIPRI)
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p117)
In 1964, the Bureau for State Security (BOSS), South Africa’s intel service, begins a relationship with Mossad that will last for decades according to a BOSS operative.
(Bleeding Hearts in Ciskei, Ronel, 1985; Inside BOSS, Winter, 1981)
After UN-imposed sanctions against Rhodesia in 1967, and through the late 1970s, Israel continued to maintain trade with the apartheid regime and provide it with arms, including Uzis and helicopters, in addition to helping Rhodesia manufacture its own submachine gun models called “Ruzis.” Israel helped Rhodesia fortify its borders by installing a land-mine belt that was 500 miles long.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi p.63)
President of Johannesburg’s largest orthodox synagogue, future attorney general of the Orange Free State, and the man who sent Nelson Mandela to jail for life, Percy Yutar, was an example of what Jewish leaders would call a “symbol of the Jews’ contribution to South Africa.”
“I think the majority didn’t like what apartheid was doing to the blacks but enjoyed the fruits of the system and thought that maybe that’s the only way to run a country like South Africa.”
— Alon Liel, former Israeli ambassador to Pretoria.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
A country like South Africa? Full of Africans, Alon?
The declared policy of the Board of Deputies was “neutrality”. Just as it was for German zionists under Hitler and Mussolini. And under the Argentine junta where 12.5% of the victims under their jackboot were Jewish (See Chapters 3 and 17)
Why are these zionist bodies “neutral” only when the far right are in power?
They are far from neutral when these same people are threatened. Whether it’s French colonialists in Algeria or all right wing/nazi oligarchs of Latin America! Even closer to home and more recently, they flashed their teeth when Jeremy Corbyn almost came to power. That is the neutrality they talk about.
As you’ll see throughout these chapters.
In 1973, Moshe Dayan visited South Africa and expressed his admiration for the “great civilization” being created there.
(Beseiged Bedfellows, Israel and the Land of Apartheid, Joseph, 1987)
A Knesset member would claim that there were “hundreds of Israeli military men” in South Africa on joint training exercises.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p120)
This was also the same period where Israeli “advisers” were training death squads in Latin America.
(See Chapter 17)
In 1975, Israeli military advisers were stationed in Namibia. And Israel would be involved in planning the invasion of Angola.
(Armed Forces and Modern Counterinsurgency, Beckett and Pimlott, 1985, p9)
1975 was also the same year that Israel offered to sell nuclear weapons to South Africa.
And in 1979, they both carried out a nuclear test off the south of South Africa.
(See Chapter 9)
“We created the South African arms industry..They assisted us to develop all kinds of technology because they had a lot of money. When we were developing things together we usually gave the know-how and they gave the money. After 1976, there was a love affair between the security establishments of the two countries and their armies…We were involved in Angola as consultants to the [South African] army. You had Israeli officers there cooperating with the army. The link was very intimate.”
— Alon Liel, former Israeli ambassador to Pretoria.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
Kibbutz Beit Alfa developed a profitable industry selling anti-riot vehicles for use against protesters in the black townships.
Israeli cities founded twins in South Africa, and Israel was alone among western nations in allowing the black homeland of Bophuthatswana to open an “embassy”.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, February 2006)
A “contra”-type movement called the MNR was created and used by Rhodesia and South Africa to fight against independence. They were trained by Israel.
The main instrument of South Africa in its war against an independent Mozambique was the MNR movement. A “contra”-type movement recruited externally. Created in Rhodesia and later supported by South Africa. Israel’s support for MNR through military training is part of their alliance with South Africa.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p68)
Liberation movements in Mozambique and Angola were fighting a Portuguese colonialist army armed by Israel.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p64)
South Africa was carrying out the same policy as Israel in regards to their nearest neighbours (as in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt).
Destroy, destroy, destroy.
In 1976, Mossad asset and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan (see Chapter 9) would buy the London based West Africa magazine to provide propaganda for apartheid South Africa.
(See Chapter 9; The Adventures of the Brothers Kimche, Bloch and Weir, 1982)
Sydney S Baron and Company PR agency in the US were also hired by South Africa “at the suggestion of Israel”
(Muldergate on Madison Avenue, Nation, Stone, 1979, p391)
Also during this time, hundreds of South African police officers will visit Israel for training. One VIP brigadier, “Rooi Rus” Swanepoel was chief interrogator of the 1964 Riviona trial that put Nelson Mandela and his comrades in jail for life. He was known as the “Beast of Soweto” for his brutal crackdown of the riots there in 1976.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p127)
Pariahs sticking together, eh?
A Rhodesian delegation would visit Israel to recruit mercenaries who joined the Rhodesian army.
(Haolam Hazeh, 1978)
In 1979, Israel would actually sell Uzis to Rhodesia and gave them the right to produce their own version: the (aforementioned) “Ruzi”, which was distributed between the military, police and white citizens. The following year Israel found a way to circumvent the embargoes on arms sales and sold eleven Bell 205 helicopters.
(Chicago Tribune, Mullen, 1979)
Now, John Vorster…
In 1976, Israel invited the South African prime minister, John Vorster — a former Nazi sympathiser and a commander of the fascist Ossewabrandwag that sided with Hitler — to make a state visit.
At a state banquet, Rabin toasted “the ideals shared by Israel and South Africa: the hopes for justice and peaceful coexistence”. Both countries, he said, faced “foreign-inspired instability and recklessness”.
Vorster..told his hosts that South Africa and Israel were victims of the enemies of western civilisation.
Shortly after this visit, the South African government’s yearbook stated:
“Israel and South Africa have one thing above all else in common: they are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples.”
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, February 2006)
Vorster’s visit laid the ground for a collaboration that transformed the Israel-South Africa axis into a leading weapons developer and a force in the international arms trade.
Secret South African documents would reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.
(See Chapter 9)
In 1979, South Africa and Israel carried out a nuclear test off the south of South Africa.
(Documentation: http://npolicy.org/article_file/Israel’s_1979_Nuclear_Test.pdf )
Seymour Hersh quoted a number of prominent members of the Nuclear Intelligence Panel who had examined the VELA data and concluded it was a nuclear test, but were ordered not to discuss it publicly. In particular, the chairman of the panel, Donald Kerr, who had been acting director of defense programs at the Department of Energy, told Hersh, “We had no doubt it was a bomb”.
On April 20, 1997, an article in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz quoted South African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad as confirming that the VELA event was a nuclear test.
That same year (1979), Israel publically defended apartheid South Africa at the UN:
“We carefully refrain from joining in the sterile symphony of blanket condemnation of South Africa…that complete lack of recognition of positive symptoms of change in South Africa..South Africa must be seen as having special values for the free world.”
— Israeli ambassador Yitzhak Unna to the UN Centre Against Apartheid
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, February 2006)
In 1981, SHABAK (Shin Bet) set up a permanent mission in South Africa (or as early as the seventies) to advise South African intel (BOSS) on counterinsurgency techniques.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p127)
200 “Israeli advisers” were allegedly stationed there.
(The Economist, 1981)
Also at this time, Israel supported and had an active part in legitimizing the corrupt leaderships of the bantustans in South Africa to the western world.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p143)
In 2004, Haaretz reported the former Italian prime minister, Massimo D’Alema, as telling dinner guests at a Jerusalem hotel that, on a visit to Rome a few years earlier, Sharon had told him that the bantustan model was the most appropriate solution to the conflict with the Palestinians.
(Brothers in arms — Israel’s secret pact with Pretoria, The Guardian, Chris McGreal, February 2006)
Straight from the horse’s mouth
“The blacks there want to gain control of the white minority just like the Arabs here want to gain control over us. And we, too, like the White minority in South Africa, must act to prevent them from taking us over.”
— Rafael (‘Raful’) Eitan, Haganah, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Lieut. Gen., Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Environment 1990s)
(‘South Africa: a Country Without Friends’, Henry Katzew; Apartheid: Israeli Style, David Paul)
[The] West Bank settlement movement is “comparable to a cancer,” and warned that Israel risked becoming an apartheid state if it annexed and absorbed the West Bank’s Arab population.”
— Yitzhak Rabin, 1976
(In 1976 interview, Rabin likens settler ideologues to ‘cancer,’ warns of ‘apartheid’, Times of Israel, 25 September 2015)
“if the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then the State of Israel is finished”
— Ehud Olmert, former Israeli PM
(Olmert warns of ‘end of Israel’, BBC, 29 November 2007)
“if this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.”
— Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM
(Barak: make peace with Palestinians or face apartheid, The Guardian, 3 February 2010)
“Israel practices its own, quite violent, form of apartheid with the native Palestinian population”
— former education minister Shulamit Aloni
(Ynet News Hebrew, 31 December 2006)
former environment minister Yossi Sarid said:
“what acts like apartheid, is run like apartheid and harasses like apartheid, is not a duck — it is apartheid”
— former environment minister Yossi Sarid
(Haaretz, April 25, 2008)
“We established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories”
— former attorney general Michael Ben-Yair
(The War’s Seventh Day, Haaretz, March 03, 2002)
Former Foreign Ministry chief Alon Liel, who also served as ambassador to South Africa, has said that “until a Palestinian state is created, we are actually one state. This joint state…is an apartheid state.”
— Former Foreign Ministry chief Alon Liel
(‘Joint Israel-West Bank’ reality is an apartheid state, Times of Israel, 21 February 2013)
British-Israeli Professor at Oxford Avi Shlaim:
“Settlements turned Israel into apartheid state”
(Ha’aretz, 21 Nov. 2008)
“Israel today was an apartheid State with four different Palestinian groups: those in Gaza, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Israeli Palestinians, each of which had a different status.”
— leading Israeli journalist Danny Rubinstein
(Yediot Aharonot, 31 Aug. 2007)
Zionists take offence at being compared to apartheid South Africa? They were joined at the hip!
Morocco
As mentioned earlier, Israel was directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 6000 Moroccan Jews during the 1950s and 1960s.
(More details: See Chapter 5)
Hassan II was the King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999.
In June 1965, Hassan suspended the constitution of 1962, dissolved the Parliament, declared a state of emergency which lasted for six years, and ruled directly. Hundreds of protesters were killed by government forces. There were reports of corrupt elections, including vote-buying, rigid patron-client relationships, and administrative interference, media censorship, and the use of deadly force to crush true opposition. There were mass arrests, torture and murders. Thousands were “disappeared”.
(Miller, Susan Gilson. (2013). A History of Modern Morocco. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. xvii)
Lo and behold, in 1965, Israel set up the internal security system for King Hassan of Morocco. Including his personal guard.
(The Spymasters of Israel, Steven, 1980)
And Mossad and Hassan set up a reciprocal relationship during these years, but particularly during 1965. One example was the Mehdi Ben Barka affair.
Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan involved in the Tricontinental struggle (an anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist movement) where he tried to unite movements in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
He was the secretary general of the Tricontinental Conference, the influential gathering of radical third world leaders organised by Cuba.
He was in charge of bringing together overt and covert, legal and illegal revolutionary organizations from all over the world.
(Interview with Bachir Ben Barka, son of Mehdi Ben Barka:
“Mossad became involved in the kidnapping of Ben-Barka in Paris. He was later murdered in cold blood. Since the affair took place on French soil, and involved collaboration with right-wing [i.e. pro-OAS] elements in the [SDECE — the French version of the CIA], it led to a major political crisis, and to a purge of the service by DeGaulle.”
(Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi. The Israeli Connection — Who Israel Arms and Why. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987), p. 46.)
It was revealed that French underworld figures, in cooperation with the police and intelligence services (including Mossad) were deeply involved. A leading underworld informer who knew much about the case was found slain and three of the six lawyers representing Ben Barka’s interests died within a 6 week period of “heart attacks” and a “cerebral hemorrhage” (N/Y.T. 3/17/67)
The probable underlying motive for Ben Barka’s removal was clearly set forth by David Rousset of Le Fiparo Litteraire (10.20.66). The extension of the Afro-Asian Solidarity movement to Latin America (in 1963) as “considered by Washington a direct threat to the security of the United Sates. Since one of the main tasks of the Tricontinentale was to provide financial and military support for the guerrillas, as well as unify them and work out a common strategy for all the Latin American movements, its was by no means just one more conference.” Therefore, “the main objective was not to kill Ben Barka, but to seize him, his information, and his archives”
(Link: https://www.thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/190408_Dossier-15_EN_Final_Web.pdf )
This incident occurred at the same time that New Orleans was the host of multiple entities — fascist elites, the US zionist crime syndicate and the CIA — who were intent on upholding their own favoured dictators, and thus their monopoly, in South and Central America. This is just one example where Gladio and one of its “sister organizations” across the Atlantic, International Trade Mart, would cooperate. And Mossad was at the heart of it.
“De Gaulle, who suspected that his secret agency might be plotting against him, was absolutely furious (about the Ben Barka kidnapping). He immediately ordered that the secret service’s house be put in order. He also directed his anger at Israel.”
[The French president] “ordered that the Mossad’s European command be removed from Paris, and he also ordered a cessation of all intelligence cooperation between the two nations.”
(Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman. Every Spy a Prince. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1990), pp. 158–159.)
“As far as President DeGaulle was concerned, the implications were that Israel was dealing with the OAS in France, which was still active, still bent on revenge, and indubitably involved through its supporters in the SDECE (French Counterespionage Department) in the killing of Ben Barka. It meant that Israel was involved in illegal activities on French soil, an affront to French nationalism, and it meant that he himself, whose support for Israel had never been challenged, had been dealt with treacherously. [the Mossad expulsion from Paris was] a severe blow, perhaps the most severe the Israeli secret service has ever suffered . . . DeGaulle was never to forgive Israel.”
(The Spymasters of Israel, Stewart Steven, p 252)
In 1965, King Hassan ll passed recordings to Israel of a key meeting between Arab leaders held to discuss whether they were prepared for war against Israel.
That meeting not only revealed that Arab ranks were split, but that the Arab nations were ill prepared for war, Maj. Gen. Shlomo Gazit told the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
[Note: Just two years later the same people were involved in the 1967 land grab under the false pretense that they were under threat of annihilation.]
Hassan allowed a joint team from Israel’s internal and external intelligence services, the Shin Bet and the Mossad — a unit known as “The Birds” — to occupy an entire floor of the luxury Casablanca hotel where the conference was to be held.
According to Rafi Eitan, who co-led “The Birds” together with Mossad op Peter Zvi Malkin — the Moroccans “gave us all of the needed information, and didn’t deny us anything,”
(Morocco tipped off Israeli intelligence, ‘helped Israel win Six Day War’, Times of Israel, 16 October 2016)
In 1975, in keeping with Zionism’s never ending offer of aid to oligarchs, Israel aided the Moroccan counterinsurgency against Polisario rebels fighting for independence in the Western Sahara region. They sold AMX-13 tanks and armored personnel carriers.
(Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco.: The Secret Customer, Segev, 1984)
Always. With. The. Oppressors.
Egypt, again
For perspective at this point, it was also during the early seventies that Israel had continuously attacked Egypt, to the point where they were prepared to drop a nuclear bomb on Cairo when they had received a taste of their own medicine during the Yom Kippur war of 1973. Apologists paint this war as Israel being “under threat” and being “caught off-guard”, yet Israel had been bombing and mass murdering children and civilians just before Egypt retaliated. And Egypt and Syria had attacked to recuperate stolen land.
(See Chapter 16)
You should keep in mind that as I lay out a timeline of zionist intrigue in different continents around the world, that events were occurring on a global scale.
Uganda
During 1967, Israel supplied arms and training to South Sudan Christians, the Anyanya movement. The Israeli ambassador to Kampala, Uri Lubrani was in charge of the missions, sending Anyanya to Israel to be trained.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p48)
Just months after the Six-Day War, in 1967, Israel sold Uganda weapons worth seven million dollars. In 1969, Israel began funnelling weapons through Uganda into southern Sudan, where a ragtag rebel group known as the Anyanya had been fighting the Arab-dominated Sudanese government since the nineteen-fifties. Israel’s purpose was to distract the Sudanese Army so that it would not join forces with Egypt, which was mobilizing to retaliate for the capture of the Sinai Peninsula.
[Note: Were they really “mobilizing”?]
Uganda’s President at the time, Milton Obote, was a Pan-Africanist who envisioned a united Africa that would challenge the legacy of division and colonialism. Like most African leaders, he condemned Israeli “aggression” against Egypt and wanted to cut off support to the Anyanyas. But Amin, the Ugandan Army’s commander at the time, was a great admirer of Israel. He had briefly enrolled in a paratrooper course there (uncompleted), and was friendly with Colonel Baruch Bar-Lev, Israel’s military attaché in Uganda.
(Idi Amin’s Israeli Connection, The New Yorker, June 27, 2016)
In 1970, Idi Amin was offered training for his battalion in Israel. Israeli “advisers” were by his side for weeks after a coup that would lead to the deaths of 100,000 people suspected of being opponents.
In 1971, Bar-Lev was eager to help Amin, who was serving Israel’s interests in Sudan, and he advised the Ugandan commander to form a battalion within the Army to protect himself. The Israelis would train it. In January, 1971, Amin overthrew the regime while Obote was in Singapore for a meeting of the British Commonwealth.
The Israelis would continue to provide advice for weeks afterward, while the last traces of resistance to the coup were eliminated.
(Idi Amin’s Israeli Connection, The New Yorker, June 27, 2016)
That it was the Israelis who were providing so much help to the Anya-Nya while the Britons plotted against Obote lends support to the allegations of a former CIA official in March 1978 that Amin’s coup was planned by British intelligence in cooperation with Israeli intelligence. Amin was known to have visited southern Sudan at least twice in 1970, once in disguise, and was in constant touch with the Anya-Nya rebels.
One of Amin’s Israeli friends has spoken of his role in the coup and how he helped Amin. The “friend” [Note: who had to have been Bar-Lev] who was a colonel in the Israel army, said that Amin approached him, saying he feared that people loyal to Obote would be able to arrest and kill him before he could secure Kampala. Bar Lev said that he told Amin that troops from Amin’s own tribe in southern Sudan should be on hand, as well as paratroopers, tanks and jeeps.
Bolstered by the Israeli assistance and the greater power of the Ugandan tank corps, Amin was able to overwhelm the majority of the armed forces loyal to Obote on January 24–25,1971. The Anya-Nya troops were a core of the forces in the Amin coup, and thousands of them later joined the Ugandan army and carried out many of Amin’s early bloody purges which saw more than 100,000 Ugandans killed between 1971–75.
(Dirty Work 2 — The CIA in Africa by Pat Hutton and Jonathan Bloch)
Congo
Born in 1925, Patrice Émery Lumumba was a radical anticolonial leader who became the first prime minister of the newly independent Congo at the age of thirty-five.
Seven months into his term, on January 17, 1961, he was assassinated.
He was the first freely elected leader in the country’s history. A history of genocide, slavery, barbarism and supremacism under Belgian colonialism.
Eleven days after Lumumba’s election, regional leader Moise Tshombe seized control of the mineral-rich province Katanga, supported by the Brussels government and backed by mining companies.
Lumumba’s progressive-populist proposals and his opposition to the Katanga secessionist movement (which was led by the white-ruled colonial states of southern Africa and which had proclaimed its independence from the Congo on July 11, 1960) angered an array of foreign and local interests: the Belgian colonial state, companies extracting the Congo’s mineral resources, and, of course, the leaders of white-ruled southern African states.
(Why They Killed Patrice Lumumba, An interview with Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (Lumumba’s biographer) 24 January 2020 by Saíd Husaini , Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja)
Lumumba’s government was dissolved, and Lumumba taken prisoner by Army Chief of Staff Mobutu Sese Seko.
Tshombe served as the president of the secessionist Katanga from 1960 to 1963 and as prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1964 to 1965 when Mobutu finally took over as dictator for decades.
When Lumumba was elected, favoring continued ties with Belgium, Tshombe had asked the Belgian government to send military officers to recruit and train a Katangese army.
France, wishing to take advantage of Katangese minerals, sent to Tshombe the reinforcement of the mercenary Bob Denard and his men.
(Wauthier, Claude (2002). “Jacques Foccart et les mauvais conseils de Fëlix Houphouët-Boigny”. Cahiers du Centre de recherches historiques (in French). 30. Retrieved 28 May 2021.)
Denard was involved in the Algerian war of independence and was imprisoned for an assassination plot against Prime Minister Pierre Mendès-France in 1954 when he was involved in moves to withdraw from Algeria.
(François Dominguez and Barbara Vignaux, “La nébuleuse des mercenaires français, Le Monde diplomatique, August 2003. (in French) (Arabic and Portuguese translations)
Through a string of circumstances, and the backing of colonialists, Mobuto staged a coup in 1965. Mobutu had handed Lumumba over to Tshombe in the knowledge that Lumumba would be executed. The coup de grace was carried out by Belgian mercenary, Julien Gat.
(Schmidt, Elizabeth. Foreign Intervention in Africa. Cambridge UP. pp. 62–65.)
The destabilization of Congolese society under Mobutu’s brutal rule — lasting from 1965 to 1997 — culminated in a series of devastating conflicts, known as the first and second Congo wars (or “Africa’s world wars”). These conflicts not only fractured Congolese society but also engulfed nearly all of the country’s neighbors, ultimately involving nine African nations and around twenty-five armed groups. By the formal end of the conflict, around 2003, nearly 5.4 million people had died from the fighting and its aftermath, making the war the world’s second deadliest conflict since World War II.
The Congo Crisis cannot be understood without reference to the Belgian-engineered Katanga secession in collaboration with international mining companies, which recruited white mercenaries to join Belgian troops in backstopping the secession.
(Why They Killed Patrice Lumumba, An interview with Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (Lumumba’s biographer) 24 January 2020 by Saíd Husaini , Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja)
What’s mind blowing is that the majority of sources for the above don’t mention Israel, the colonialist Rottweiler. An anti-colonialist figure like Lumumba, the forces of colonialism aligned against him, and egomaniacal sociopaths in position to take his place?
Of course they were there.
In 1963, Israel invited newly independent Congo paratroopers (Dodenhoff, 1969), accompanied by future corrupt and murderous dictator Mobuto Sese Seko when he was an Army Commander. He and 250 others gained their parachute wings there. (Laufer, 1967, p171)
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p55)
For nineteen years (1963–1982), Egyptian born Mossad agent Meir Meyouhas, was Zaire/former Congo dictator Sese Seko Mobuto’s right hand man. He had been involved in the bombings in Egypt during the “Lavon Affair” Israeli false flag and went to the Congo in 1961 after being released from prison.
He was Mobuto’s “best friend” and business partner in the early sixties. He remained a close influence on Mobuto for 19 years, becoming Israel’s honorary consul in 1982.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p61)
From 1969–1971, Israeli advisers (openly) trained the Congolese (Mobuto) parachute regiment.
(The CIA Secret Subsidy to Israel, Washington Post, Evans and Novak, 1977, pA15)
During the brutal Mobutu regime in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Israel sold Mobutu arms and trained paratroopers, the presidential security force and the military, thus building the power of this pro-Western dictator.
(Abel, Jacob (1971). Israel’s Military Aid to Africa, 1960–66. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 9, pp 171–2 doi:10.1017/S0022278X00024885)
Remember that these were the years when Israel had become very close allies to the French OAS who had plotted DeGaulle’s assassination after Algeria had won independence. And who were drawn in to the Gladio movement (See Chapter 12). It was also not too long after Israel had allied itself with France to attack Egypt during the “Suez crisis” (See Chapter 6).
These French mercenaries, Gladio members and the French secret service (to an extent) were involved in aiding Tshombe in the mineral rich Katanga area.
GUIDO GIANNETTINI, in an interview on 06–08–1993 (related with paper 169/22 of 06–09–1993) and then on record given to the Judge, explained he had met GUERIN SERAC in 1964 in Lisbon, and presented him to Captain SOUETRE of the O.A.S., in the presence of an official of the P.I.D.E. [Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado, a Portuguese Intelligence Agency].
[…]
Capt. SOUETRE is mentioned in the report of the [Portuguese Intelligence Agency] S.D.C.I. [Serviço de Detecção e Coordenação de Informações] […] as chief of an operational squad in Angola under JACQUES DEPRET. SOUETRE’s squad received information from SERAC, which in turn came from the P.I.D.E.. The aim was to assist a surprise attack by MOISE TSCHOMBE in Congo [aiming to eliminate the socialist Lumumba, who was then effectively assassinated] (the matter was narrated by DEPRET himself in the book “Coup d’Etat at Brazzaville”, published in Brussels in 1976).
(JACQUES DEPRET, interviewed by FREDERIC LAURENT for his book “L’Orchestre Noir”, published by Stock, showed on pages 140 and 141 that SOUETRE was given by SERAC the command of mercenaries recruited by AGINTER and it was proposed (to DEPRET) that he be made Information Officer, role that he accepted. He used the pseudonym CONSTANT.)
This was also the era of the Kennedy assassination and the exposure of the zionist mafia and Israeli intelligence from top to bottom in it’s involvement. The zionist mafia and Israeli intelligence were also exposed as being deeply involved in the “anti-communist/regime change” drive in Latin America that was at the center of the conspiracy (See Chapters 13 and 14). Their tentacles were reaching out to Europe (through Gladio). And Africa. Using the exact same tactics as they had used in Latin America (See Chapter 17).
And this isn’t a case of simple connections. It’s the exact same network of characters. Many of the same forces surrounding the JFK assassination, including the assassin of Oswald, the (patsy) assassin, Jack Ruby, surrounded the same intrigue that hounded Lumumba to his death.
Luis Kutner
In 1960, Jack Ruby’s long time friend and associate, Luis Kutner, acted as an emissary for two major mafia figures, Sam Mannarino and Norman Rothman, to the FBI.
Kutner carried an offer to eliminate Cuban leader Fidel Castro to the FBI.
(Documentation: NARA Record Number: 124–90101–10010. Mary Ferrell Foundation. https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=117206#relPageId=2)
Get this…
Reliably anti-communist and pro-western, Tshombe was recalled back to Congo in 1964. He was installed as Prime Minister of the country he had attempted to wreck just a few years before. With the help of the United States and its anti-Castro Cuban mercenaries, Tshombe waged a brutal civil war against Lumumbist and other Congolese rebels. He was finally toppled from within by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. Fleeing again to Spain, Tshombe was sentenced to death as a traitor by the coup government.
Things were about to get much worse for Tshombe. In an event whose authorship is still a mystery, Tshombe was kidnapped (1967) during a flight that was diverted to Algeria. It landed, and Tshombe was thrown into prison. The Algerian government assured the Congo that he would be extradited to face his sentence.
Though the Johnson administration seemed happy to stick with Mobutu, the American right sprang into action to “save” Tshombe. Op-eds flowed into newsprint and onto television. Speeches were made on the Senate floor. Luis Kutner became Mrs. Tshombe’s lawyer, who was traveling the world seeking support for her husband. Kutner took this as another chance to apply his World Habeas Corpus concept and convince the United Nations to act to spare Tshombe’s life.
Kutner made the media rounds, defending Tshombe’s record:
“…Tshombe at all times has been a friend of human rights, and he has always made an attempt to preserve the integrity of all persons in preaching the human dignity which the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights seems to provide for.”
Tshombe’s record was considerably less perfect than Kutner described. As noted before, Lumumba’s torture and murder — along with those of his aides, Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito — was carried out in Tshombe’s puppet state. To lead his army, Tshombe turned to French Colonel Roger Trinquier, a veteran of France’s brutal Algerian counter-insurgency war and “a ruthless enthusiast of torture.” Tshombe’s white mercenaries habitually shot their prisoners.
(Burke, Kyle. “Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War.” UNC Press Books. 2018. Page 47; Public Affairs Staff. “Tshombe’s Attorney Says CIA Was Not Involved.” Transcript. Newscope. WFLD-TV, Chicago. 21 Jul 1967. The Weisberg Collection. Hood College, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.; Black, Ian. “Belgium accused of killing African hero.” The Guardian. 14 Jan 2000.;Othen, Christopher. Katanga 1960–63: Mercenaries, Spies and the African Nation that Waged War on the World. The History Press. Kindle Edition. Kindle Location 1967.; Garrison, Lloyd. “White Mercenaries On a ‘Rabbit Hunt.’” The New York Times. 15 Nov 1964.)
Kutner was far from a “civil rights champion”. He was a fraud, an informer, a zionist mafia go-between and a future neoconservative with connections to future Jewish Defence League founder Meir Kahane (See Chapter 14).
By 1983, Israel would become Zaire’s (formerly Congo) prime military supplier. Israeli Colonel Yonadav Navon became official military adviser to Mobuto. And Israel trained Mobuto’s bodyguards and intelligence services.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p59)
That same year, rebel forces in Chad claimed that Israeli instructors accompanied by 2500 troops from Zaire arrived in their country to support the US backed side of the equation.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, p68)
But what was the endgame for Israel in the Congo? Apart from the global manouevre of cosying up with brutal dictators for future arms sales, CIA regime change partnerships and UN votes secured, Congo was to be a massive financial coup. Through the diamond trade.
Blood diamonds
Maurice Tempelsman is a former Chairman of the American Jewish Congress, a zionist pressure group that claims it “works closely with the Israeli military.”
Tempelsman is one of the top funders of the Democratic Party who has funded Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
When Lumumba promised to return the resources of the Congo to it’s people, which included diamonds, Tempelsman (who began with De Beers in the 1950’s) and the CIA helped engineer the coup d’état that consolidated the dictatorship of 29 year-old Colonel Mobutu.
(Janine Roberts, Glitter and Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel, Disinformation, 2003: pp. 177–185; David Gibbs, The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crises, University of Chicago Press, 1991; Wayne Madsen, Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa, 1993–1999, Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.)
Tempelman’s firm operated in the Congo backed by Mobuto’s Israeli trained troops.
Israel was the main beneficiary of this coup.
Sotheby’s is a company involved in blood diamonds. In 2005 Sotheby’s partnered up with the Israeli-American Steinmetz Diamond Group to form Sotheby’s Diamonds. Beny and Danny Steinmetz of the Steinmetz Group are partnered with Dan Gertler, a new White House insider considered the unofficial “Ambassador” to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country cursed by diamonds and other minerals.
The Steinmetz/Gertler partnerships between them have controlling interests in Dan Gertler Industries, Steinmetz Global Resources, Nikanor and Global Enterprises Corporate (GEC), companies with massive diamond concessions in Kasai, and copper/cobalt concessions in Katanga, two provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“I believe this was the beginning of what we now know of as conflict diamonds in the Congo,…From then on diamonds would be extensively used to discreetly fund wars, coups, repression and dictatorships, in Africa.”
(blood diamond expert and investigative journalist Janine Roberts, author of the book Glitter and Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel)
SEC filings show that LKI directors are high-rolling Zionist lawyers and investment bankers…LKI is also connected to the euphemistically named United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Maurice Tempelsman was for decades the unofficial ambassador to Congo/Zaire; Dan Gertler has usurped that role. In 2000 Gertler was named Honorary Consul to the Congo. Beny Steinmetz may be the biggest De Beers “sightholder”. Africa Confidential called President Kabila’s 2003 visit to the Bush White House a “coup” for Gertler and Steinmetz. Gertler’s best friend is Brooklyn-born Chaim Leibowitz, a personal friend of neocon Condoleeza Rice.
“Dan Gertler is close to Israeli politicians, especially Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party, and he is very close to diamantaire Beny Steinmetz, a good friend of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Gertler’s inseperable friend, Chaim Leibowitz, is also very close to Lieberman, and was “a regular fixture” in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offices.”
Tempelsman and Steinmetz bought diamonds from both sides during Angola’s thirty-year war. Israeli diamond tycoons Gertler and Leviev are reportedly jockeying for power with Isabel Dos Santos, the high-rolling diamond-studded daughter of the President of Angola.
The Israel Diamond Exchange in Tel Aviv, which today brings Israel $13 billion annually in commerce, and is the country’s second-largest industry. Israel buys some 50% of the world’s rough diamonds, and the U.S. buys two-thirds of these.
Diamonds are Israel’s top export. In 2005 figures, global exports in diamonds totaled around $14 billion.
Dan Gertler’s grandfather, Moshe Schnitzer, is known in Israel as “Mr. Diamond,” founder of the Israel Diamond Exchange in Tel Aviv. Moshe Schnitzer’s son and Dan Gertler’s uncle is Shmuel Schnitzer, Vice-Chairman of the Belgian-based World Diamond Council — the entity that promotes the false image of “clean” or “conflict-free” diamonds.
(Keith Harmon Snow and Rick Hines: “Blood Diamond: Doublethink and Deception Over Those Worthless Little Rocks of Desire,” Z Magazine, June and July 2007, and Blood Diamonds; Rafael Marques, Rinsing the Blood from Angola’s Diamonds, Oxford University Africa Society, January 26, 2007; Gertler’s Bling Bang Torah Gang, Keith Harmon Snow, February 9th, 2008)
Why Christian Zionist Pat Robertson is “loyal to a Israel”?
During the 1990’s, Pat Robertson was involved in business ventures with both the late Mobutu Sese Seko, the dictator of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) for over 30 years and Charles Taylor of Liberia and Sierra Leone infamy, currently being tried for war crimes in The Hague. Robertson is said to be worth between 400 million and a billion dollars.
Mobutu granted Robertson diamond mining rights in Zaire in the early 1990’s. Robertson used the planes owned by his “relief” organization “Operation Blessing” almost exclusively to ferry diamond mining equipment to Zaire according to two pilots who flew for Operation Blessing. According to an article in The Nation, the Virginia Department of Consumer Affairs conducted a lengthy investigation and called for an indictment in 1999 based on the determination that Robertson, “willfully induced contributions from the public through the use of misleading statements and other implications.”
Robertson’s joint venture company “Freedom Gold” registered in the Cayman Islands but located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and housed with his “Christian” media empire CBN was granted gold mining and exploration rights by Liberia’s President, Charles Taylor and he and several cabinet ministers were to receive 15% of the shares.
(Virginian-Pilot on May 2, 1999; Washington Post, September 21, 1999)
“Airplanes sent to Zaire ostensibly to support televangelist Pat Robertson’s tax-free humanitarian organization, “Operation Blessing,” were used almost exclusively for Robertson’s private diamond-mining operations, the Associated Baptist Press reports. The Norfolk-based Virginia-Pilot newspaper spoke with two pilots who were hired by Operation Blessing to fly humanitarian missions in Zaire. One of them, Chief pilot Robert Hinkle, said that in the six months he was in Zaire during 1994, only one or two of the flights he piloted were humanitarian. The rest, more than 40 in all, ferreted mining equipment.”
(Returned Volunteer Robert Hinkle says Pat Robertson’s “Operation Blessing” is a Front for Mining Interests, Peacecorps Online, Editor C Barillas, April 18, 2003; Mission Congo documentary, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY LARA ZIZIC & DAVID TURNER)
At least 3 million died in the civil war in the Congo during the late nineties while Pat Robertson was clearing up in the midst of this Holocaust. The Congo has had several holocausts throughout it’s colonial domination from Belgium to Israel, and the “Uncle Toms” who did their bidding when they proclaimed independence and murdered their first and last true leader, Lumumba.
(Review of Congo war halves death toll, NBC News, Jan. 20, 2010)
The colonialist Rottweiler
Israel funded and trained the military repression of anti-colonial uprisings and/or dictatorship in the Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Benin, Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Nigeria, and Somalia.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi pp. 50–53)
In Malawi, from the 1960s to 1980s, Israel provided training to tyrant Dr. Banda’s army of boys used for murdering political opponents, terrorizing workers by flogging, and torturing opposition.
(The Weight of Three Thousand Years, Israel Shahak, p25)
In 1975, The Central African Empire (now Republic) was ruled over by a tyrant calling himself Emperor Bokassa. The “imperial army” was trained and armed by Israel and Bokassa’s closest adviser was a retired Israeli general Shmuel Gonen.
(The Israeli Connection, Who Israel Arms and Why, Benjamin Brit-Hallahmi, p71)
Israel maintained strong ties with the Equatorial Guinean government ruled by President Obiang who seized power in 1979 (to present day). Obiang is believed to have ordered the deaths of thousands of Guineans during his period in power, and to have headed one of the most tyrannical regimes on the continent. Equatorial Guinea, with a population of 800,000 — and now flooded with petrol dollars — has purchased from Israeli companies tens of millions of dollars in naval and aircraft.
(Melman, Yossi. “Israelis to Train Equatorial Guinea Presidential Guard.”, Haaretz, 3 June 2005)
Liberia (still getting sucked dry)
One of the controlling shareholders of Cellcom Liberia since its establishment in 2004 until mid-2016 was a secret business empire named LR Group. It was founded by three Israeli former fighter pilots, who monetized on business opportunities that arose out of Angola’s 27-year-long civil war, which ended in 2002. After one of the founders, Eitan Stiva, left in 2011 to set up an independent investment fund, the company remained in the hands of the other two founders: Ami Lustig and Roee Ben-Yami.
LR got involved in defense exports in Angola in the mid-80s and spent years massively arming the government there and training its troops. According to a variety of reports, the company sold Sukhoi 27 combat planes, artillery shells, and light weapons to the government. At the same time, the three founders also built airports and security systems and were involved in purchasing a plane for Jose Eduardo dos Santos, the president who ruled in Angola for 38 years through 2017. Some attribute his victory in the war to the country’s aerial armament, which LR greatly contributed to.
(The Israeli Fighter Pilots Who Got Rich Off Angola’s Civil War and Their Link to a Massive Cyberattack, Haaretz, January 01, 2019)
Rwanda
“Seven large cargoes of small arms worth $6.5 million were flown from Tirana [Albania] and Tel Aviv between mid-April and mid-July 1994 to the [Interahamwe] forces as they carried out the genocide, even during the time when the mass killings were being reported daily by the international news media.”
(Brian Wood and Johan Peleman, The Arms Fixers, 1999)
The flights from Tirana were supervised by Israeli personnel. Sarah Leibowitz`s article in Maariv adds a few names as well as information about Israelis training Rwandan military and paramilitary forces and earlier arms sales in 1992 and 1993.
(Source: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/379/196.html/ (Hebrew))
Other monsters: Asia
“The friendship of one European country is more valuable than the views of all the people of Asia”
— Ben Gurion
(Reflections on Israel’s Asian Policy, Medzini, 1976, p75)
That supremacist sentiment didn’t stop zionism from taking full advantage of the situation there. The names of some of the monsters Israel armed, midwived and trained, were very familiar to me as a teenager growing up in Belfast. Even at a time when my focus was solely on the bubble I found myself in.
Indonesia
General Suharto had staged a coup in Indonesia (1965). He and his rich friends would go on to murder 600,000 people and steal $2–3 billion.
(The Indonesia Reagan Won’t Recognize, CSM, Koeppel, 1986)
In October 1965, the Indonesian government launched a massive purge of left-wing and communist parties in the country. Over the following six months, at least half a million members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and related leftist parties were murdered, while more than one million citizens were imprisoned without trial. Many of those who were jailed were brutally tortured, held in inhumane conditions, or sentenced to hard labor. Some of them remained in prison for up to 30 years.
Those on the list to be executed were transported in military vehicles to killing sites, or passed on to death squads or anti-communist militias. Bound and blindfolded, the detainees were shot at the edge of killing pits and buried, or they were cut to pieces by machetes and knives. Corpses and body parts were often thrown into wells, rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals. Decapitated heads and limbs were displayed on roads, in markets, and in other public places.
The US and Britain were aware of the atrocities. And encouraged them through financial rewards and military aid.
The Americans and the British considered Ahmed Sukarno, the president of Indonesia, to be anti-American and anti-West. The United States, which was concerned about his connections with China and the USSR, acted in Indonesia as it would in Chile, where it helped undermine Salvador Allende’s socialist government and helped put Augusto Pinochet in power.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently unsealed several documents in the state archives, which provide information regarding the relationship between Israel and Indonesia during the 1950s. The documents reveal that despite conflicting messages from the Indonesian government, the State of Israel saw Sukarno as a central obstacle to the building of a relationship between the two countries, adopted the worldview of the U.S. regarding the Cold War and the Sukarno government, and hoped it would be ousted
Foreign Ministry documents reveal that within several months of the massacres, the Mossad knew who was responsible. A report written on November 15, 1966, just six months after the massacres were carried out, describes the “official version” of events.
A mass slaughter of the participants in the uprising and of their families was carried out, with the victims numbering between 300,000 and 700,000. In March 1967 the army took over, under the leadership of General Suharto…
The Mossad report is thus extremely important, since it confirms that there was indeed a slaughter of several hundred thousand citizens. The number of dead mentioned in the Mossad report matches the number that is generally agreed upon by most investigators, although the Mossad also adopted the propaganda of the Indonesian Army regarding the October events and the conspiracy theory about China. Today we know there is no evidence to support this version of the events.
After General Suharto took over, the Mossad managed Israel’s relationship with Indonesia. The knowledge of the massacres and who was behind them did not prevent the intelligence agency from building economic and security ties with the military regime in Indonesia, under the auspices of a classified initiative called “House and Garden.” Indonesia was given a code name for security reasons; occasionally, the name “South Korea” was also used. Foreign Ministry documents make it clear beyond a reasonable doubt that the reference could only have been to Indonesia.
Some of the commercial activity was managed via proxy companies. Similarly, the Indonesian army and Israel jointly created a company for the marketing of diamonds from Indonesia. On May 28, 1967, the Mossad closed a deal with an Indonesian company called Berdikari, which was controlled by army generals. The agreement specifies that the Indonesians were interested in acquiring military material and uniforms from Israel.
The Mossad organized visits for Indonesian officials to Israel, and in return Mossad representatives visited the military regime in Indonesia. The mutual visits were carried out according to utmost secrecy. According to the notes prepared by the Mossad ahead of a January 31, 1967 visit, “Members of the delegation will be introduced as visitors from South Korean. Do not mention their nationality unless you have coordinated in advance with Mossad representatives.” The document prepared by the Mossad on April 6, 1967 ahead of another Indonesian delegation’s visit specifies:
“We know little about their character, way of thinking, or real relationship with us. Nevertheless, do not treat them like Africans but rather as though they were Europeans.”
On July 30, 1967, another delegation from Indonesia arrived in Israel. This one included director of the prime minister’s office, who was also the head of the security services. The delegation was interested in acquiring replacements for military equipment obtained from the USSR. They met with the head of the Mossad, the defense minister, and the IDF chief of staff, participated in an aerial tour of the Sinai Peninsula, and saw a display of military hardware at Tzrifin Military Base.
Most of the documents from that period have not yet been released to the public..
Israel participated in whitewashing the crimes of the Indonesian Army, and saw it as a legitimate partner for advancing political, economic, and security goals.
(“The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66,”, Geoffrey Robinson; How Israel helped whitewash Indonesia’s anti-leftist massacres, 972 Magazine (with documentation), September 9, 2019)
East Timor
East Timor is home to a population of 1.1 million, comprising Malayo-Polynesian and Papuan communities and a small Chinese minority. From 1702 to 1975, Timor-Leste was a colony of Portugal. Indonesia was a Dutch colony.
On November 28, 1975, Timor-Leste (East Timor) declared independence from Portugal. The power vacuum that followed the Portuguese withdrawal was largely filled by the grassroots pro-Independence party, Fretilin (The Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor), who assumed a quasi-governmental role.
With the backing of zionist war criminal Henry Kissinger, Suharto invaded. As with Lumumba in Congo, and Arbenz in Guatemala, the people’s choice was treated as a “communist threat”. And the colonialist Rottweiler was called in to action.
The decolonization of East Timor presented a chance to both annex it and liquidate this perceived “Communist threat”. Kissinger was unequivocal in his support for the Suharto regime. On December 6, 1975, he and U.S. President Ford met with Suharto in Jakarta just days before the invasion. According to recently declassified memos, Ford and Kissinger agreed to establish small-arms factories in Indonesia.
In the first year of the occupation alone, an estimated 60,000–100,000 Timorese were killed. By 1979, an estimated 300,000 Timorese — nearly half the population — had been uprooted, many of them resettled into camps controlled by Indonesian forces. Amnesty International estimates that 200,000 Timorese died from military action, starvation or disease from 1975–1999, out of a pre-invasion population of 600,000. Genocide.
Between 1975 and 1999, Indonesian occupation forces used starvation and sexual violence alongside chemical weapons and napalm.
(“Background on East Timor.” Center for Justice and Accountability Archives)
In 1978, Israel sold U.S. jets and attack helicopters to Indonesia as the military carried out genocide against people in East Timor.
The US arranged the sale of 14 Skyhawks for Israel to Indonesia (Klich, 1982) and Israel itself sold sixteen A4 fighters (Wilson, 1979, pA10)
(Haaretz, Melman, 1983)
According to the CIA (US embassy documents captured at the Iranian embassy, 1979) Mossad had a station in Jakarta operating under a commercial cover. Israel has had major military contracts with Indonesia (Coone, 1980) and sold them arms that were used against the East Timorese (Baram, Haolam Hazeh, 1982)
(Israel’s Dangerous Experts, New Statesman, Coone, 1980)
Indonesia bought arms from Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, and Indonesian soldiers have trained in Israel.
Israel’s arms trade with the Suharto dictatorship continued until his resignation in 1998.
(Times of Israel, December 13, 2020)
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka obtained independence from Britain on February 4, 1948. The Sinhalese formed the majority of the population (74% of the population). Meanwhile, Tamils represented the largest minority in the country (18% of the population).
There was also a certain geographical division between the two groups. While the Sinhalese were mainly concentrated in the southern and central provinces of the country, a large majority of the Tamil population had settled down in the northern and eastern regions of Sri Lanka.
By 1956, the Sinhalese began appropriating Tamil land for colonization. In later years, Tamils were gradually more openly discriminated against in employment and university positions.
Knowledge of the Sinhalese language was a prerequisite for entering the public service, so many Tamils were excluded from obtaining such positions. As exclusion and discrimination steadily increased, so did Tamil demands for a separate homeland — Eelam. These developments also saw the emergence of political violence as a means to an end.
Sri Lanka became even more authoritarian and anti-Tamil as the years went by.
By 1983, government backed riots and mass murder of Tamils lead to government declarations that “all persons advocating the division of the country would be stripped of their civil rights, be banned from holding office and prevented from practicing a profession.”
An estimated 1000 were brutally slain over several days, businesses and houses burned, and 100,000 refugees created.
Political parties on the left and moderates also became a target.
It was not long therefore, before an all-out war was launched between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamils (Wilson 1988:214). Twenty years on, the war has cost over 65,000 lives (as of 2008).
(THE MASSACRES IN SRI LANKA DURING THE BLACK JULY RIOTS OF 1983, SciencesPo, Pavey Eleanor, 2008)
By 1984 Israel had sent 6 domestic intelligence experts to help set up a new intelligence network against the Tamils.
(The Ethic Fires Burn Again, Newsweek, Smolowe, 1984)
The US had refused to send military advisers and instead turned the request over to Israel who in turn sent counterinsurgency advisers.
(AP, Graham, 1984)
In addition to the killing of several thousands of Tamils living in the southern areas of the country during the racial pogrom, substantial evidence spanning over 300 pages was submitted to the Tribunal detailing systematic massacres carried out against the Eelam Tamils living in the north and east of the island.
For example, from July 1983 (Thirunelveli massacre) to May 1987 (Alvai Temple massacre), over 44 massacres were committed by the state armed forces where at least 2109 Tamils were killed. Similarly, during the 6 year period from May 1990 (Eastern University massacre) to May 1995 (Nagarkovil Massacre), at least 2,231 people were killed in 47 massacres carried out by the state military. In a number of incidents, over 100 people were massacred in a matter of 2–3 days (for example, 131 killed in the Kokkilai-Kokkuthoduvai massacre on 15 December 1984 and 226 in the Eastern University massacre on 23 and 24 May 1990, while 155 were killed in the Navali St. Peters’ Church massacre on 9 July, 1995).
(Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka, 07–10 December, 2013; Francis A Boyle: The Tamil genocide by Sri Lanka: The global failure to protect Tamil rights under international law, Atlanta, Clarity Press 2010)
When a population is brutalized and negated in such a way, varying degrees of extremism will arise, pockets of sectarian hatred created, and innocent civilians will be murdered. The Tamil Tigers were no angels in this regard, but what did the Sri Lankan government actually expect??
The “response” by the Sri Lankan government through genocide mass murder and rape can’t in any way be compared to the acts of Tamil extremists.
It’s this same supremacist mentality that exists in zionism which nullifies the deaths, maiming and displacements of thousands of Palestinians, and which simultaneously places on an altar the deaths of several “Israeli civilians”. They actually value a single Israeli life above the lives of thousands of others — following on from the words of their extremist rabbis “a gentile life is not worth a Jewish fingernail”.
The same viciousness of the 1983 “riots” was used on an industrial scale between 2008 and 2009. And at this point I want to make it clear that most countries supported Sri Lanka, and not just Israel. But, as per these instances where a supremacist regime wanted to annihilate the untermenschen, Israel played it own particular role.
Israel and Sri Lanka had established diplomatic relations in 1984. After being suspended in 1990, Sri Lanka restored the diplomatic ties in the year 2000. According to the Sri Lankan Embassy in Israel, Israel assisted Sri Lanka on agriculture, defense and technology.
(Online site of the Israeli embassy in Sri Lanka)
The Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (who is the Sri Lankan Prime-Minister since 2019) visited Israel in January 2014. His brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan president since 2019, visited Israel three times when he was Secretary of Defence.
(Israel says keen to share tech with Sri Lanka, FT Daily, 13 February 2020)
Both were implicated in numerous human rights violations during their previous years in power from 2005 to 2015, which included a crackdown on journalists and activists. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who then served as defense secretary, was also implicated in war crimes.
(Sri Lanka: Human Rights Gains in Grave Peril, HRW, January 14, 2020)
Gotabaya Rajapaksa was leading the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the conflict against the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) under the administration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Donald Perera, who served as Sri Lankan chief of staff during the Sri Lankan offensive against the Tamil rebels served as the Sri Lankan ambassador in Israel between the years 2009–2012.
The aforementioned Secretary of Defence who would be implicated in war crimes was trained by Israelis during the 1980s.
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa recollected receiving training from Israeli instructors at Maduru Oya in accordance with the then overall plan to prepare for a major offensive in the Jaffna peninsula.
“We badly needed to enhance our expertise in fighting in residential areas. The then government of Israel sent instructors here following negotiations at the highest level,” he said in an interview last Sunday. The tough talking official dealt with the situation in the run-up to the launch of Sri Lanka’s first brigade-level offensive, Operation Liberation on the morning of May 26, 1987 to clear Vadamaratchchy, in the Jaffna peninsula…. Those holding the rank of Major, second-in-command of fighting battalions and Captains had got an opportunity to train under Israelis, the Defence Secretary said…The Israeli training project was called FIBUA –Fighting In Built-Up Areas.
(Sri Lanka War on Terror Revisited, Israelis conduct live firing exercises ahead of Operation Liberation, Shamindra Ferdinando, June 20, 2013)
That explains a lot…
Both Palestinians and Tamils have been subjected to a process of settler-based colonialism.
In the 1980s, Israel offered advice to Sri Lanka as it built Sinhala-only armed settlements in the eastern province, which aimed to create buffer zones around Tamil-majority populations. Much like the “settlers” in the West Bank which broke up Palestinian land to make any future peace plan unworkable. And of course strangle Palestinian movement and growth.
(“Sinhala academic blames US-UK axis for genocide in Tamil homeland”
TamilNet, 15 April 2012)
Israel had also offered “advisers” to the same form of colonialist settlements in Guatemala and El Salvador (See Chapter 17).
Israel stands out in regards to the scope of weapons provided to Sri Lanka, reaching hundreds of millions of USD.
(Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers: Conflict and Legitimacy, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University, August 2014)
As for the Sri Lankan air force, in 1995 it purchased the first Kfir Fighter Jets, and in 2000, it was reported that more jets had been purchased. The 16 Israeli jets played a pivotal role: one of the Kfir squadrons logged more than 2,800 operational flight hours and released over 3,500 tons of bombs. The Sri Lankan ambassador to Israel confirmed that pilots from his country had received training in Israel, and a spokesman for the Sri Lankan embassy in Washington even stated that Israeli pilots had actually flown the planes (in 2000).
(Sri Lankan ambassador: We back Israel’s war on terror, Ynet News, July 2010; Tamil secession ruled out, Jeffrey Phillips, BBC News, 21 July 2000; The Database of Israeli Military and Security Export)
Regarding training of Sri Lankan forces in Israel, the Sri Lankan Navy reported that they participated in training courses and seminars in Israel, including a Missile Vessel Commanders courses and Fast-Missile-Boats Training. Israel also provided training to Sri Lankan Special Task Forces, operating for the police. Sri Lankan government forces were trained by the Israeli Secret Service.
(Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive, Maritime interdiction in counterinsurgency : the role of the Sri Lankan Navy in the defeat of the Tamil Tigers, June 2010; Sri Lanka Police Information Technology Division — website down; The Database of Israeli Military and Security Export)
So, as you can see, Israeli support went well beyond simply the sale of military hardware. They were directly involved in the genocide machine. Just as they were in Latin America (see Chapter 17). Even flying the planes (which is just one admitted instance that we know of).
During the final months of the 2009 war (January 2009 — April 2009) an estimated up to 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed.
(Up to 40,000 civilians ‘died in Sri Lanka offensive’, The Independent, 12 February 2010)
Sri Lanka had a clear and effective strategy of encouraging Tamil civilians in the Vanni region to relocate to the “No Fire Zones” that were then deliberately shelled by the military. Tens of thousands were left crippled. And 300,000 were displaced.
(A Decade Without Justice for Sri Lanka’s Tamils, The Diplomat, May 17, 2019)
Hundreds of Tamil women and girls were raped and sexually mutilated before their execution.
(International Crimes Evidence Project, Investigation into international crimes in the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil war, February 2014)
Does this sound familiar?
Tamil men and women who were detained after crossing into government-controlled areas are still subjected to torture and sexual violence ten years after the slaughter.
(“Unbearable treatment”: torture continues despite Sri Lankan government’s promise, Freedom from Torture — victim accounts — 20 February 2019)
The Philippines
Fernando Marcos won the 1965 presidential election in the Philippines through a charismatic campaign. The US saw him as a partner in their “anticommunist” push during the Vietnam war.
In 1972, by the time the Philippine people saw through the “charisma” for the corrupt egomaniac that he was, Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972 in response to “communist insurgents” (it would stay in force until 1986). By doing so he could stay in power longer than the constitutionally mandated limit of eight years.
The media was taken over and became a propaganda unit for his authoritarian regime. All dissent was dealt with brutally.
The regime’s security forces killed 3,257 people, many of the victims first abducted, then abused and finally murdered and dumped on a roadside in a warning to others.
An additional 35,000 were tortured and 70,000 were unfairly imprisoned under Marcos..
737 people were “disappeared”.
77 percent of all victims, were “salvaged” — that is, tortured, mutilated, and dumped on a roadside for public display.
Marcos’s regime intimidated by random displays of its torture victims — becoming thereby a theater state of terror.
Under the command of Marcos’s close cousin General Fidel Ramos, the Philippine Constabulary housed the 5th Constabulary Security Unit (CSU) and the Metrocom Intelligence and Security Group (MISG).
Officers in these elite units were the embodiment of an otherwise invisible terror.
The MISG’s commander for twelve years, Colonel Rolando Abadilla (PMA ‘65), in the words of his obituary, “towered over other heavies in that closed, tight-knit, psychotic club of martial-law enforcers.”
Only his former understudy, then Lieutenant , now Congressman, Rodolfo Aguinaldo (PMA ’72) of the 5th CSU, could rival his psychopathic interrogations.
(Alfred McCoy: DARK LEGACY: HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER THE MARCOS REGIME)
It wasn’t until 1986 that a popular struggle and falling US support for this outrageous thief and murderer lead to his flight to Hawaii with billions (at least an estimated $10 billion) in cash, gold and jewelry stolen from the very poor Philippine economy. Just as Somoza had done in Nicaragua.
(Marcos: Rise and fall of a dictator, Philippine Daily Inquiry, November 19, 2016)
By 1986, the number of Filipinos living below the poverty line doubled from 18 million in 1965 to 35 million. And the ecological balance of the country had degraded from 75 % to 27% forest cover remaining — with 39 million acres of forest falling victim to rampant logging.
(Philippine News, Asian Journal, San Diego News, November 2015)
In 1982, Israel officially offered aid in counterinsurgency operations to the Marcos regime in the Philippines.
(Israel Sells Arms to Asia Discreetly, Even Secretly, CSM, Quinn-Judge, 1982)
Manila newspapers reported that since the Irangate scandal broke that former armed forces chief of staff Gen. Fabian Ver, a crony of Ferdinand Marcos, supplied phony end user certificates to allow Israeli intermediaries to divert U.S. arms to Iran in 1984.
(The Iran Contra Connection, Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era by Johnathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter
South End Press, 1987)
Ferdinand Marcos had elite commando Israeli bodyguards as well as his wealthy friends.
(Yediot Aharonot, Egosi, 1985)
One of those friends, Eduardo Conjuangco, had the largest private army reportedly trained by Israelis.
(Israel Sells Arms to Asia Discreetly, Even Secretly, Quinn-Judge, 1982)
Final thought
At this point in putting this research together, I’m mentally drained. Is anybody actually able to process just the last two chapters, never mind the sixteen chapters before them? Latin America and Africa were viciously raped and slaughtered by colonial forces for centuries. And when they were breaking their shackles over the past seventy or eighty years, the colonialists made sure that they destroyed themselves, murdered genuine leaders, installed greedy sociopaths and in the end, kept the resources. And Israel was at the center of it all.
Am I exaggerating?
And I still haven’t finished.
