Did someone say Apartheid? Israel's secret pact with Pretoria
South Africa's prime minister John Vorster (second from right) is feted by Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (right) and Menachem Begin (left) and Moshe Dayan during his 1976 visit to Jerusalem. Photograph: Sa'ar Ya'acov
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Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive (administrative) and official de facto capital.
Here are some simple lyrics to an old song :
Marching to Pretoria
I'm with you and you're with me
And so we're all together.
So we're all together
So we're all together
Sing with me, I'll sing with you
And so we'll sing together
As we march along.
...wouldn't make a very good song about APARTHEID, would it ?
But so goes the chorus...
We are marching to Pretoria, Pretoria, Pretoria
We are marching to Pretoria, Pretoria today.
And here's a great rendition of the tune, to get you started.
I would love to grab a banjo and try to get Jimmy Carter to sing along on this old march tune. Not just for the hell of it, but simply because I think I could set him free from all those raging harpies that have besieged him since the recent publication of his controversial book, 'Peace, Not Apartheid'.
My only question to Jimmy would be, WHAT CONTROVERSY ? What can possibly be left to dispute, once one is aware of the inescapable fact of ISRAEL's integral historical relationship with APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA ?
After a second look at that sordid affair, it becomes painfully obvious that cut and dried, 'black and white' evidence of apartheid was not the only situation with dire implications. What about a much more unsettling discovery, of a well established COLLABORATION, in NUCLEAR ARMS DEVELOPMENT and PROLIFERATION ?
I promised that I linked the following article for a third and LAST TIME, but as they say, there's a first and last time for everything. I just want you to picture three of the clowns in this picture - ( the one with the eyepatch beating a drum ), ( the ugly sucker in the shades blowing on a fife ) and ( the nice lookin' guy on the far right waving a South African flag ) being led by Mr. Vorster in a rousing parade to that venerable tune of 'Marching to Pretoria', and you will begin to get my drift.
Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria
I wish my old buddy Jimmy would just lean back on his porch swing and read that ENTIRE ARTICLE, in BOTH PARTS, while I softly strum my banjo in the background. And then, just tell me honestly, what part of it he just never knew about. Well, Jimmuh?
Judging from other responses I have NOT gotten to that piece, I have to wonder if anyone out there knows how to put two and two together anymore, if anyone ever did. So, I would like to offer a few more outtakes of another piece along these lines, in vain hopes that it might not fall on blinded eyes:
from NUKE NATION: Israel's weapons of mass destruction, by John Steinbach
In the first months of 2001, efforts to secure peace in the Middle East were hit by two dangerous developments. Right-winger Ariel Sharon was elected to power in Israel, the world's neglected nuclear nation. And President George W. Bush's first foreign policy adventure saw Iraq bombed by U.S. and British forces, in what was justified as a "defensive" act.
Since the Gulf War in 1991, much attention has been lavished on an alleged threat from Iraqi weapons of mass destruction while the major culprit in the region, Israel, has been largely ignored.
With between 200 and 500 thermonuclear weapons and a sophisticated delivery system, Israel, population 6 million, recently supplanted Britain as the world's 5th Largest nuclear power. It may now rival France and China in the size and sophistication of its nuclear arsenal.
Possessing chemical and biological weapons, an extremely sophisticated nuclear arsenal, and an aggressive strategy for their actual use, Israel provides the major regional impetus for the development of weapons of mass destruction, and represents an acute threat to peace and stability in the Middle East.
The hypocrisy inherent in the condemnation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the obsessive focus on "rogue states" such as North Korea, while totally ignoring Israel's provocative arsenal, is BREATHTAKING.
The existence of the Israeli nuclear program is a serious impediment to meaningful nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. The time is LONG OVERDUE for citizens concerned about sanctions against Iraq, peace with justice in the Middle East, and nuclear disarmament, to CONFRONT DIRECTLY the issue of ISRAELI WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. { and this was written in 2001 ! }
THE ISRAELI BOMB
The Israeli nuclear program began in the Late 1940s. It was established at the Department of Isotope Research at the Weissman Institute of Science under the direction of Ernst David Bergmann, "the father of the ISRAELI BOMB," { yes folks, it DOES exist } who in 1952 established the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission.
From the very beginning the U.S. was HEAVILY INVOLVED in developing Israel's nuclear capability, training Israeli nuclear scientists and providing nuclear-related technology, including a small "research" reactor in 1955 under the "Atoms for Peace" program.
It was FRANCE, however, that provided the bulk of nuclear assistance to Israel, culminating in construction
of DIMONA, a heavy water-moderated, natural uranium reactor and plutonium reprocessing operation situated near Bersheeba in the Negev desert.
Israel had been active in the French nuclear weapons program from its inception, and provided critical technical expertise. Dimona became operational in 1964 and plutonium reprocessing began shortly thereafter. Despite Israeli claims that Dimona was "a manganese plant, or a textile factory," the extreme security measures employed belied the BOGUS CLAIMS
[In 1976, Israel shot down one of its own Mirage fighters, and in 1973 shot down a Libyan civilian airliner that approached too close to Dimona, killing 104.'
There is substantial credible speculation that Israel may have exploded at least one, and perhaps several, nuclear devices in the mid-1960s in the Negev near the Israeli-Egyptian border, and that it participated actively in French nuclear tests in Algeria.
By the time of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel possessed an arsenal of perhaps several dozen deliverable atomic bombs and it went on full nuclear alert.] { Alright, folks, let's skip the history and cut to the chase }---
Possessing advanced nuclear technology and top nuclear scientists, Israel was confronted early with a major problem ---HOW TO OBTAIN the NECESSARY URANIUM.
Israel's own uranium source was the phosphate deposits in the Negev, totally inadequate to meet the need of a rapidly expanding program. The short-term answer was to mount commando raids in France and Britain to successfully hijack uranium shipments, and in the 1967 "Plumbatt Affair", to collaborate with West Germany in diverting 200 TONS OF YELLOW CAKE (uranium oxide). These clandestine acquisitions of uranium for Dimona were subsequently covered up by the countries involved.
There was also an allegation that a U.S. corporation, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC), diverted hundreds of pounds of enriched uranium to Israel from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Despite an FBI and CIA investigation, and congressional hearings, NO ONE WAS EVER PROSECUTED, although most other investigators believed the diversion had occurred. { ok, HERE'S THE BEEF }:
In the late 1960s, Israel SOLVED THE URANIUM PROBLEM by developing CLOSE TIES WITH SOUTH AFRICA in a quid pro quo arrangement whereby Israel supplied the technology and expertise for the "APARTHEID BOMB,"
( hold it a second, Jimmuh, did he say APARTHEID BOMB ? - while South Africa provided the uranium.................... { sorry, Jimmuh, I must be hearin' things... banjo - plink, plink ...}
( SOUTH AFRICA AND THE US ) In 1977, the Soviet Union warned the U.S. that satellite photos indicated South Africa was planning a nuclear test in the Kalahari desert. The APARTHEID REGIME BACKED DOWN under pressure from the CARTER ADMINISTRATION.... { could that mean YOU, Mister Jimmuh ? } {... banjo still plunkin' away...}
On September 22, 1979, a U.S. satellite detected an atmospheric test of a small thermonuclear bomb in the Indian Ocean off South Africa, but because of Israel's involvement the report was quickly whitewashed by a carefully selected scientific panel, kept in the dark about important details. Later it was learned through Israeli sources that there were actually three tests of miniaturized Israeli nuclear artillery shells.
THE ISRAELI / SOUTH AFRICAN COLLABORATION DID NOT END with the bomb testing, but continued UNTIL THE FALL OF APARTHEID, especially with the developing and testing of medium range missiles and advanced artillery. In addition to uranium and test facilities, South Africa provided Israel with large amounts of INVESTMENT CAPITAL, while Israel provided a major TRADE OUTLET, undermining the international economic SANCTIONS imposed on the APARTHEID REGIME...
( entire remaining article here, Covert Action Quarterly, 2001 ):
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/Nuke_Nation.htmI ..........I would STRONGLY encourage everyone to finish reading this superb article, if possible. But I wouldn't want to leave out a few more snippets...
..."Israel, using research OBTAINED FROM SOUTH AFRICA, was developing an "ETHNO-BOMB." "In developing their ethno-bomb,' Israeli scientists are trying to exploit medical advances by identifying a distinctive gene carried by some Arabs, then create a genetically modified bacterium or virus........... (what next, oh ISRAEL ?) The ultimate APARTHEID BIO-NUKE ? or this, in summing up:
Finally, a nuclear-free Israel could reasonably be expected to result in a Nuclear-Free Middle East, making a comprehensive regional peace agreement much more likely. ( There's your PEACE, NOT APARTHEID, Jimmuh ! ) and.. last but not least...
Unless and until the world community confronts Israel over its covert nuclear program, it is unlikely there will be ANY MEANINGFUL RESOLUTION of the Israeli/Arab conflict, a fact that Israel is apparently counting on......
---and so we'll sing together, as we march along,
MARCHING TO PRETORIA, TODAY...
[ thank y'all fer listnin', Mister Jimmuh !....banjo goes plink, plank, PLUNK.]
p.s. ( Q ! Thanx a heap for your expert 'collaboration' ! )
A late discovery of note......I was pleasantly surprised to find the gentleman responsible for the latest U.N. report, notably Mr. John Dugard, quoted at length in the above article by Chris McGreal, from last year. The particular segment, from Pt. 2, above, is as follows:
-"But South African apartheid was more than just separation. "Apartheid was all about land," says John Dugard, the South African lawyer and UN human rights monitor. "Apartheid was about keeping the best parts of the country for the whites and sending the blacks to the least habitable, least desirable parts of the country. And one sees that all the time here...... [in the occupied territories], particularly with the wall, now, which is really a land grab. One sees Palestinians dispossessed of their homes by bulldozers. One can draw certain parallels with respect to South Africa that, during the heyday of apartheid, population relocation did result in destruction of property, but not on the same scale as the devastation in Gaza in particular, [or in] the West Bank."
More or less says it all, doesn't it ? You can also find the outspoken Dugard recently referenced, with a link, at qrswaves blog -
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/707
If the Shoe Fits... also here:
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/15
"intolerable, appalling, tragic" - Life in Gaza
If anyone should happen to locate the full text of the U.N. report, please feel free to post it hereabouts... Also, please feel free to take McGreal's liberal holocaust references with a liberal grain of salt.
For this great post. It's a crucial part of understanding what the 'israeli project' is all about.
You might have noticed that I'm a bit predisposed this weekend, for reasons outside my control.
I am eternally grateful for everyone's outstanding contributions.
I expect to be back in business soon.
In the meantime - keep blogging everyone! It's both fun and informative.
This is an interesting story, but by now everybody is aware of Israel's thermonuclear arsenal and the most obvious quarry for the raw uranium ore had to be South Africa. This does not mean that Israel and S.A. collaborated in developing apartheid too, though; if anything S.A. has nominally given it all up passing the post to that crypto Fallasha Jew by the name of Mandel-a.
Less known is, however, where the Soviets got their uranium ore for their phenomenal development of a nuclear arsenal. The Ural Mountains you say? Not right at the beginning, when the Bolsheviks had their fangs still fast on East Germany's neck. Right, the Bolshevik Bomb was built thanks to the East Germans' toils in the Erzgebirge mountain region at the border with (then) Czechoslovakia. If you go to Aue in the Erzgebirge you will come across huge dismissed (and now flooded with water) uranium mines. Because the Erzgebirge is full of heavy metal ores of the bismuth family, thus not only the silver that made the fortunes of the saxon kings but also the uranium that made the misery of countless east german families. There is one valley in the Erzgebirge region near Aue called 'the valley of the widows'. Why? You guessed it, that's where the Bolshevik extracted most of their early uranium ore, on the East Germans' skins.
A relevant interview well worth listening to is at
www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Dickie2.html.
A full list of interviews is at
www.iamthewitness.com/ByPerson.html
history worm; Could the 'stans' in any of these 'stanzas' also be one of your forgotten "stans" ?
- "Segregation evolved into "separate development" and the BANTUSTANS - the five nominally "independent" HOMELANDS where millions of black people were dumped under the rule of despots beholden to Pretoria."-
- "Critics of Ariel Sharon's plan to carve up the West Bank, apportioning blocs of territory to the Palestinians, draw comparisons with South Africa's "BANTUSTANS" - the nominally independent homelands into which millions of black men and women were herded." -
- "Kasrils acknowledges the effect of the bombers but says that Israel's "APARTHEID STRATEGY" was under way LONG BEFORE the suicide attacks began. He notes the RESEMBLANCE of the occupied territories to South Africa's patchwork of homelands - the BANTUSTANS - that were intended to divest the country of much of its black population while keeping the best of their land."-
[ And of course, since you are so intent on a 'tribal' model for your Turanian 'STANS', it would seem to follow then, that BANTUSTANS were indeed named for a TRIBE of 'BANTU']...
"PW Botha, who went on to become South Africa's president, speaking to parliament in 1964 as minister for coloured affairs, said: "I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the BANTU in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point"... and -
Goldreich speaks of the "BANTUSTANISM we see through a policy of occupation and separation", the "abhorrent" RACISM in Israeli society all the way up to cabinet ministers who advocate the forced removal of Arabs, and "the brutality and inhumanity of what is imposed on the people of the occupied territories of Palestine".
[ there now, it seems we've come all the way from "SPECISM" to "RACISM", to "BANTUSTANISM". Don't you love all these incessant 'ISMS'? Almost as much as all these incessant 'STANS', I'll bet !
But the next and last paragraph rather sums up, for me, the underlying gist of McGreal's article ( which I can't believe you bothered to read ) - ] :
..."Three years ago, the Israeli newspaper 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, ARIEL SHARON had told him that the BANTUSTAN MODEL was the MOST APPROPRIATE SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT with the Palestinians. When one of the guests suggested to D'Alema that he was INTERPRETING, not repeating, Sharon's words, the prime minister said - "NO, sir, THAT IS NOT INTERPRETATION. That is a PRECISE QUOTATION of your prime minister," he said. With SHARON out of politics, his successor OLMERT has pledged himself to carrying through THE VISION of carving out ISRAEL'S FINAL BORDERS deep inside the West Bank and retaining all of Jerusalem for the Jewish state.
You do remember how "demanding" I can be about """QUOTATIONS""", don't you ?
Fester - Many thanks for that link to a fabulous interview with Prof. James Dickie, which touches on very early Jewish inroads to South Africa - notably the resettled Jews of Holland - and Zionist establishment of control over the gold and diamond trade to be found there.
It seems to me the name Bantustan for the S.A. black peoples' homelands is a completely made up, pejorative term for those apartheid- created geographical entities. Look up the wikipedia article I linked to and you will see the names of the homelands are completely different.
So now comes the question: who invented such a term? For the '-stan' ending is typical of Central Asia, not S.Africa, and is a turkik word (not persian, like the wikipedia article purports) meaning 'land of'. So maybe the word was coined by a central-asian elite, ... the usual one? The ball is in your field, Quasimodo, up to you to investigate.
history worm: Now there's a word for you ! Put that in your 'stan'-pipe and smoke it ! It is useless to quibble here over ultimate attributions or derivations of this term, which is now generally taken in a quite pejorative sense. It would seem I have struck a major nerve, as this dispute has previously devolved into a massive inquisition and juridicial thread at WIKI administration. Let them quibble over MY post, then -
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia...
Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Israeli apartheid/Evidence
I suppose it is now a full-time job for these wiki wackos to legislate what use we are ultimately allowed to make of this 'taboo' terminology. The touchiness of the whole business seems to rival that of your "blood libel". But it's a kick to see this late 40's Afrikaaner scatology leak into the mainstream at last. So if you will just please give my old pal Jimmy a lousy break, I will provide a few further slivers of evidence for the prosecution, whether you want to buy it or not...
"The largest ever measure to be undertaken by the Zionist project since the 1948 Nakba, the construction of the massive
Apartheid Wall throughout Palestine is bringing about the dispossession, strangulation and expulsion of the Palestinian
people into miniscule, caged-in BANTUSTANS."
BANTUSTANIZATION: The Final Plan for Palestine?
In response to international pressures against the racist policies of Apartheid, the white Apartheid regime decided on “reforms” by suggesting to “submit” to the notion that Africans have the right to a “state”. The Bantustans, or “BANTU HOMELANDS” were then created, which were the most devastating policy of Apartheid, and which under the
pretense of “black independence”, “state-building” and “separate development” would contain Africans into 10 different homelands made of 13% of South Africa, lands that were originally “reserved” for non-white ownership. The Bantustans, which whites had envisioned would see “some” economic development and limited powers of internal self-government was also seen internationally by many at its inception as a positive step towards “DECOLONIZATION”.... The Bantustan project would ensure white control over the greatest and best lands while defeating the so-called “black demographic threat” by expelling 3 million blacks into the so-called homelands.
For Palestinians in the ’67 Occupied Territories, BANTUSTANIZATION was an ISRAELI GOAL, the VERY YEAR of OCCUPATION of the West Bank and Gaza, expressed in the ALON PLAN, which the Wall’s path today closely demarcates. It was the Oslo “Peace” Accords in 1993 that paved the way for the creation of the Palestinian “homeland” project through the legitimization of Areas A, B, C to facilitate Israeli EXPANSIONISM; the number of settlements and bypass roads increased during Oslo more than at any other point in history. With the slicing of the West Bank into countless disconnected areas and villages, together with the closure and siege policy that solidifies the imprisonment of an entire population, the PALESTINIAN BANTUSTANS are themselves composed of countless GHETTOS within, and now to be demarcated with a Wall, making them MANY TIMES WORSE than the South African Bantustans.
ISRAELI PURSUIT of the APARTHEID MODEL
According to an Israeli diplomat who spent many years in Africa, ARIEL SHARON paid both SECRET AND PUBLIC visits to South Africa in the 1980s. "I saw what interested him: BANTUSTANS, as if it were just an intellectual interest," he said. "He had a FIXATION with bantustans that seemed out of proportion…If you tell him it failed in South Africa, he'll say that it didn't work there because of the disproportion between blacks and whites, but that here [the Jews] are still a MAJORITY."
[Akiva Eldar in Ha’aretz writes
that former Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema stated that three or four years prior he had had a conversation with Sharon who explained at length that the BANTUSTAN MODEL was the most appropriate solution to the conflict.] ----( see further anecdote above )
Also, a publication produced by former Israeli Minister of Tourism Benny Alon called “The Road to War: A Tiny Protectorate, Overpopulated, Carved up and Demilitarized” is presented according to SHARON'S PLAN. The MAP in the publication looks much like the PLAN for Bantustans in South Africa in the early 60s and even included the same number of cantons: 10. But, this plan is not Sharon’s, it in fact belongs to the Labor General YIGAL ALON.
[ excerpted, with references ]:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:0UiPqeFnq_IJ:www.stopthewall.org/dow...
Apartheid
http://www.stopthewall.org/downloads/pdf/4PageFactSheetOctober9.pdf
(p.s.history worm, are you still awake ? I'm sure you are also quite familiar with a similar term from your neck of the woods - BALKANIZATION ? )
Quaz, glad you liked the James Dickie interview. These are also calorie-rich and need to be shared:
www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsBollyn-Simon.html
Bollyn investigates the billionaire Zionist family of Melvin Simon who are backers of the Loose Change "truth" video
www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsRafiq.html
The roots of the Ashkenazi Zionism; the first installment of a two part series.
www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsTurner2.html
British Colonel Barry Turner blows the lid off of the Zionist conspiracy
www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmithInterviewsBollyn.html
Bollyn discusses the Zionists at all choke points of the 911 investigation