When Victims Rule (pdf)

ISRAEL AND ZIONISM
your people suffered.” [JEWISH WEEK, 3-20-87, p. 17] An American journalist
could understand the link. In 1972 J. Hoagland noted that “to Afrikaners, the
parallels [between them and the Israelis] are as obvious as they are embarrassing
to the Israelis. They and the Israelis are essentially white, Europeanized peoples
who have carved their own nations out of land inhabited by hostile, non-
European majorities that would destroy the two nations if the Afrikaners and
Israelis listened to the United Nations or world opinion. Their religions are
similar, each being a ‘chosen people.’” [BEIT-HALLAHMI, p. 160]
During the Algerian war for independence to break from French colonialism,
Israelis supported the ultra-right wing French OAS settler community.
[BEIT-HALLAHMI, p. 44] Indigenous Jews in Algeria (a community of about
100,000 people) also provided information to the Mossad about Algerian revolutionary
activities against French control of the country; this information was
passed along to the French (Israel was at the time seeking French good graces
for joint research in the creation of a nuclear bomb). [HERSH, p. 36]
In Morocco, by 1965 Israelis had “set up [King] Hassan’s internal security system,
including the personal guard unit to the King himself.” [BEIT-HALLAHMI,
p. 46] Israeli aided in helping the Moroccan government murder a dissident, Mehdi
Ben-Barka, on French soil which caused an international incident. [BEIT-
HALLAHMI, p. 46] “Since King Hassan’s succession to the throne of Morocco in
1961,” note Ian Black and Benny Morris, “Israel’s intelligence had enjoyed a special
relationship with his security services… Israeli operatives helped the new
king to reform his secret service and trained its agents on a regular basis.”
[BLACK/MORRIS, p. 203] During Tunisia’s struggle against French colonialism,
there was fighting between French and Tunisian troops in 1961 over a French naval
base near the town of Bizerte. “Hundreds of Arabs died. The 1,200 strong
Jewish community was accused of collaborating with the French. Many of the
Jews worked in the base or serviced it.” [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 181]
In Sudan, Israelis discretely aided Anyanya rebels in its South. Also, “by the
mid-1980s,” notes Jacob Abadi, “Israel became increasingly concerned over the
fate of the Falasha Jews in Ethiopia and in the refugee camps of Sudan. Besides,
Israel had other grandiose schemes, which required Sudanese cooperation. Israel
sought to establish a huge arsenal on Sudanese territory. In addition, Israel explored
the possibility of using Sudan as a base of operations, aimed at helping the
son of the deposed Shah of Iran to return to Iran and topple Ayatollah Khomeini’s
regime.” [ABADI, 1999]
In Ghana “military and intelligence cooperation… [and] training was given
by MOSSAD.” [BEIT-HALLAHMI, p. 49] In Ethiopia, Israel joined with the
United States and Britain in trying to prevent the collapse of the Haile Selassie
regime to the Eritrean Liberation Front. Israelis had earlier helped train the
Ethiopian secret police. [BEIT-HALLAHMI, p. 51-52] “INCODA, a whollyowned
company that exported Ethiopians beef was a useful commercial front
for intelligence activities… In December 1960 the Israelis helped [Emperor]
Haile Selassie crush a coup attempt.” [BLACK/MORRIS, p. 186-187]
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