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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Zionism and Africa</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits">Rosa Moro</div>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">December 24, 2023<br></div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><p>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.</p><img src="cid:ii_lqjajiyb0" alt="74479ab0-790f-469d-a84f-8e70fba71e90.jpg" width="440" height="374"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>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)
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<h2>Africa and the “Holy War” against Islam</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Repercussions of the October 7 in Africa</h2>
<p>On 15 October, <a href="https://www.africaintelligence.com/central-africa/2023/11/15/israel-repatriates-military-instructors-from-drc-after-hamas-attack,110087895-eve">Africa Intelligence</a>
(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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Uganda, Rwanda and Morocco, the big allies</h2>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK7wSzW5CU">Global Cost of Israeli Economy</a>,
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".</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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».</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-abraham-accords/">Abraham Accords.</a></p>
<p>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.</p></div></div></div>
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