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Zionism and Africa
Rosa Moro
December 24, 2023
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In their charm offensive in Africa, the Zionists exploit the image they
want to sell around the world of being the legitimate representatives of
the Jewish people.
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   - On 15 October, Africa Intelligence (AI) published a story that may
   serve as an indication of the extent of Israeli security cooperation with
   certain African countries (Illustrated by Mahdi Rteil to Al Mayadeen
   English)

Africa and the “Holy War” against Islam

Since its inception, "Israel" has sought allies and clients in Africa, as
in the rest of the world. In 2017 it planned to hold an Israel-Africa
summit in Togo, along the lines of summits in Europe, the US, Russia or
China. Israel trumpeted that Netanyahu would meet with '25 African
leaders', but in the end, the summit never took place because African
leaders did not confirm their attendance. African countries support the
Palestinian struggle and are not easily fooled by Zionism's whitewashing
propaganda. They understand that Zionism is colonialism and they themselves
have suffered and suffer from the colonialism of Western powers.

Until his assassination by NATO in 2011, Gaddafi led this support for
Palestine against Israel. The Libyan leader repeatedly declared that he had
"nothing against the Jews, but against Zionism" and about Zionism he also
said that "it is behind every conflict in Africa". Today, this support for
Palestine is led by Algeria and by South Africa, which has a very recent
history of its own apartheid, so they understand how Zionist apartheid
operates in Palestine.

When the Organization of African Unity was transformed into the African
Union in 2002, the Israelis tried to continue with its observer and
friendly state status, as it had in the previous organization (heavily
controlled by the colonial powers), but a coalition of countries led by
Gaddafi opposed it. Today, Israel is still trying by all means to obtain
such status and the AU is still refusing so far. But Zionism is a master at
rewriting history, at conquering minds and hearts by subterfuge and
propaganda, very sibylline and persistent.

The American Kevin Barrett, Ph.D. in Arab, Islamic, and African studies,
claims that the United States is a "colony of Zionism" when he critically
analyses his own government's war on terror. Barrett defines the "war on
terror", launched by Bush after 9/11 in 2001, as a "holy war against
Islam". He and other researchers such as James Petras and Stephen Sniegoski
argue that the US, with the launch of the "War on Terror", adopted the
Israeli agenda, acting against its interests and defending Israel's,
somewhat unconsciously, influenced by Zionists inside and outside the Bush
administration, who went so far as to publicly define the "war on terror"
as a "Crusade", a “holy war”.

This plan began with the occupation of Islam's holy land, Palestine, and
went global when the US empire became part of it. The new enemy
civilization designated by the master of the world was no longer the Slavic
or Russian civilization of the Cold War, it was now the Arab civilization.
With the help of the United States, Zionism has gone much further in its
crusade against Islam than it would have on its own.

In this context, one can find many well-documented analyses exposing the
erosion of African support for Palestinian resistance over the years,
thanks to Zionism's mastery of propaganda.

The Israelis have concluded trade and services agreements with many African
countries. It mainly offers services in security and arms sales,
agriculture, technology, and pharmaceuticals. Many Israeli private and
state-owned companies sell arms and training to African governments and
armies. It should be remembered that all weaponry as well as spying and
surveillance systems that any country purchases from "Israel" and its
private companies require further training to operate them. Additionally,
with the highly convenient advent of terrorism, "Israel" has emerged as the
world's foremost expert in combating this brand of terrorism. It has won
over governments besieged by this scourge such as Kenya, Chad, Mali and
Niger, among others. In some cases, such as Niger, this may be about to
change with the arrival of Russia, with whom Niger signed anti-terrorism
agreements in early November.

While the government of Niger may not formally have open diplomatic
relations with "Israel", as does the regional economic body ECOWAS, there
are a number of private security companies that operate freely in the
country for the time being. As Gaddafi warned, one should not underestimate
the capacity of the Zionists to enter into all the continent's conflicts
and take advantage of them. When governments do not establish open
relations, their private companies do so, and if these are vetoed in any
country, the "security" work is done by Israeli NGOs, as has been seen on
many occasions throughout the continent, where under the banner of
humanitarian aid, arms and other materials such as diamonds and minerals,
or even espionage, were traded.

The Israelis supply arms, ammunition and training, both military and
intelligence, to all parties to conflicts alike. It arms not only
governments, but also terrorist groups such as the jihadist militia
Al-Nusra, and even works to ensure the "security" of the plunder of large
multinationals in impoverished countries, such as Exxon Mobil in Equatorial
Guinea, or Chevron in Nigeria.
Repercussions of the October 7 in Africa

On 15 October, Africa Intelligence
<https://www.africaintelligence.com/central-africa/2023/11/15/israel-repatriates-military-instructors-from-drc-after-hamas-attack,110087895-eve>
(AI) published a story that may serve as an indication of the extent of
Israeli security cooperation with certain African countries. Following the
Hamas attack on 7 October, on 9 October, the Israeli Security Ministry
informed the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo that all
Israeli trainers and technicians present in Congo were to return home
immediately. There was a repatriation flight on 15 October and another on
20 October. Also from other countries. In total, AI said, the Israeli
government had called up 360,000 reservists, no little for a state with a
population of less than 10 million. Programs run by the Israelis, such as
drone surveillance training in the east of the country and others such as
shooting training, were suddenly and surprisingly without instructors.

In the DRC in particular, the Israeli trainers worked mainly for Synergy
GPM and Beni Tal Security (BTS), but also for Global CST and the Mer Group,
among others. Some of the trainers recalled from the Congo were not so
young, AI explains, having been in other African countries for years before
the DRC. Only about 60 Israeli military personnel remained in Congo because
their presence was considered "essential". Prominent among these essential
experts were those of Global CST, the private security company (a
subsidiary of state-owned Mikal Defense) owned by General Israel
Zilberstein, a former IDF director of operations and well known in African
'defence' circles.

It must be said that it is not only Israeli agents and companies that are
in charge of "security" in eastern DRC, which has suffered massacres of
civilians on an almost daily basis for more than 30 years. Security" actors
from multiple international, regional, and foreign organizations, private
companies from Eastern European countries such as Bulgaria or Romania are
operating in the area; even China, at the beginning of November, with four
armed drones and their corresponding instructors, has become part of this
"security Tower of Babel", which has not achieved positive results so far.
Uganda, Rwanda and Morocco, the big allies

For a full account of Zionism's business dealings in Africa and other
countries, I recommend listening to activist Susan Abulhawa in this online
lecture, entitled The Global Cost of Israeli Economy
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK7wSzW5CU>, in which she documents with
conventional sources Israeli global military industry, arms trafficking,
diamonds, surveillance, police training and intelligence sharing with many
African and other countries. Susan Abulhawa argues that "while one pillar
of Israel's wealth rests on the bodies and blood of Palestinians, the other
pillar rests on the bodies and blood of Africans".

Uganda's relations with Israel have always been in the shadows, although
they have not been without incidents, such as the accidental arrest in the
African country of two Israeli arms dealers linked to the defence ministry
in 2014; Or the scandal that hit the media in the 1990s, because the
Israelis were selling arms to conflict zones under arms embargo, such as
Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo or South Sudan
(France even denounced to the UN that it had seized Israeli weapons in
these countries), through the Ugandan police, with the involvement of
President Museveni himself. The whole investigation suddenly vanished.

In their charm offensive in Africa, the Zionists exploit the image they
want to sell around the world of being the legitimate representatives of
the Jewish people. In 2019, Netanyahu declared at the ECOWAS headquarters
in Monrovia, Liberia: «There is a "natural affinity" between Israel and
Africa, because we have, in many ways, similar histories. Your nations
suffered under foreign rule. You have lived through terrible wars and
terrible slaughter. This is very much our history».

But there is one state in particular that feels this affinity to the core,
Paul Kagame's Rwanda. In my book “El genocidio que no cesa en el corazón de
África” [The Unabated Genocide in the Heart of Africa], in the chapter
devoted to Impunity, I explain how these two governments are true brothers
and work closely together. "Israel", which has always refused to share the
role of "genocide victim" with any other people, agreed to share it only
with the victors of the genocidal war in Rwanda, now in government. These
two genocidal and racist regimes clearly share a real history, they are
both major criminal aggressors, who play the role of victims and their
impunity is staggering.

Thanks to 'Kagame's diplomacy', it was under the Rwandan presidency of the
AU that Morocco made a great surprise return to the continental body, which
it had left in 1984 because the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic was
admitted as a full member. Immediately afterwards, Morocco became the
fourth Arab country (after Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan) to
normalise relations with "Israel" through the US-driven Abraham Accords.
<https://www.state.gov/the-abraham-accords/>

Following this masterstroke, the kingdom became the perfect partner for
NATO and Europe in the fight against migration. In return, Morocco has
obtained the weakening or withdrawal of NATO allies' support for the
Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara and has become NATO's main security
partner at the southern gateway to Europe and the African continent.
"Israel" is the main supplier of arms and training to Morocco in its role
as guardian of Europe's borders, violently and with impunity repressing
African migration to Europe. Israeli training of armies, police and border
guards around the world, not only in Morocco, consists of teaching how to
commit with "proven effectiveness" (so they sell it, proven in Palestine)
all kinds of abuses and tortures, including extrajudicial killings.
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