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		<title>By: Andres Kargar</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38166</link>
		<dc:creator>Andres Kargar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We should also not forget Israel&#039;s special relationship and support of Latin American dictators. 

In Nicaragua, for example, not only did Israel supply weapons to the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, but they continued shipping arms to the Contra terrorists long after Somoza was overthrown.

Israel&#039;s arms and training were extended to many other Latin American dictatorships.

In Argentina, for example, even though many Jews had fallen victims to the repressive policies of the anti-semitic military Junta between the years 1976-83, Israel provided the ruling Junta military supplies and training worth hundreds of million dollars, and they refused to extend any assistance to the dissident Argentine Jews whom they considered socialist or communist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We should also not forget Israel&#8217;s special relationship and support of Latin American dictators. </p>
<p>In Nicaragua, for example, not only did Israel supply weapons to the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, but they continued shipping arms to the Contra terrorists long after Somoza was overthrown.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s arms and training were extended to many other Latin American dictatorships.</p>
<p>In Argentina, for example, even though many Jews had fallen victims to the repressive policies of the anti-semitic military Junta between the years 1976-83, Israel provided the ruling Junta military supplies and training worth hundreds of million dollars, and they refused to extend any assistance to the dissident Argentine Jews whom they considered socialist or communist.</p>
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		<title>By: kalidas</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38164</link>
		<dc:creator>kalidas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Israel purchased nuclear materials from South African in order to develop its secret weapons program, and in return, Israel provided scientific and technical assistance to help South African build its nuclear bombs.&quot;
(More light unto the world?)

There&#039;s something you (never) hear about in the free press (ha ha) or at the &quot;university.&quot;

I wonder who did confiscate those six or so nukes the Afrikaners had... 

http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2006/06/when-israel-exploded-atomic-weapon.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Israel purchased nuclear materials from South African in order to develop its secret weapons program, and in return, Israel provided scientific and technical assistance to help South African build its nuclear bombs.&#8221;<br />
(More light unto the world?)</p>
<p>There&#8217;s something you (never) hear about in the free press (ha ha) or at the &#8220;university.&#8221;</p>
<p>I wonder who did confiscate those six or so nukes the Afrikaners had&#8230; </p>
<p><a href="http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2006/06/when-israel-exploded-atomic-weapon.html" rel="nofollow">http://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2006/06/when-israel-exploded-atomic-weapon.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: kalidas</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38158</link>
		<dc:creator>kalidas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 03:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, duh!

http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/11/judaization-of-american-politics-and.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, duh!</p>
<p><a href="http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/11/judaization-of-american-politics-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://jewishracism.blogspot.com/2008/11/judaization-of-american-politics-and.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: bozh</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38114</link>
		<dc:creator>bozh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>deadbeat,
good for the irish. however, thre are too many fascist and wld-be fascist states. thnx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>deadbeat,<br />
good for the irish. however, thre are too many fascist and wld-be fascist states. thnx</p>
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		<title>By: Deadbeat</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38076</link>
		<dc:creator>Deadbeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Apparently the Irish can do what the American Left cannot bring itself to do -- call for a boycott of Israel.  I guess a real left-wing exist in Ireland.  Here&#039;s the link... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21905.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Irish Civil Society Calls For Boycott of Israel&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently the Irish can do what the American Left cannot bring itself to do &#8212; call for a boycott of Israel.  I guess a real left-wing exist in Ireland.  Here&#8217;s the link&#8230; <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21905.htm" rel="nofollow">Irish Civil Society Calls For Boycott of Israel</a></p>
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		<title>By: sk</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38063</link>
		<dc:creator>sk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 04:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Regina Sharif&#039;s carefully researched book, &lt;i&gt;Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History&lt;/i&gt; which was published in 1982 (when Apartheid was very much alive) is a good resource on the early links between Zionism and white sumpremacism in South Africa. Following is an excerpt:

The similarity between Zionism and South African apartheid consists in their common appeal to a &#039;civilizing&#039; influence, invoking Biblical precepts. The Dutch Reformed Church, the church of the Afrikaner settlers relies on Old Testament passages to demonstrate that the inequality of the races is ordained by God. The black natives of Africa are considered to be the inferior descendants of Ham whereas the white settlers regard themselves as the descendants of Shem whose mission was to civilize the blacks. 

Zionism likewise depends upon Old Testament passages to justify the Jewish claim to the possession and colonization of Palestine. Only the Jews are capable of bringing &#039;civilization&#039; back to Palestine where they are reclaiming only what is rightfully theirs according to the Biblical prophecies. 

The close interrelationship between Zionism and apartheid was embodied in General Jan Christian Smuts&#039; Zionist convictions. Smuts&#039; attraction to Zionism &#039;welled up not only from his functional role as a surrogate British imperial presence, but from the racist and misconstrued theology of his own Afrikaner people. His Zionism sprang from his own personal background and from his conception of Western civilization, modified by his Calvinist beliefs...Civilization was equal to &#039;white&#039; civilization. White unity was an absolute necessity, and left no room for the traditional Western anti-Semitism. Smuts&#039; racial philosophy classified the Jews as white while the Arabs ranked with the blacks. The spiritual basis of this racial equation was his belief that the Jews had the same background as his own Afrikaner people. 
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They had the same characteristics. Both were sour, bitter people; strictly religious, with their lives based on religion learned from the same book—from the Old Testament...They were the Chosen People—as the Dutch felt themselves to be the chosen people—chosen by God Himself, set apart and better than other men, and every Jew knew that he had been specially chosen to be a Jew.
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...Addressing a Zionist audience in 1919 (Smuts) said:
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I need not remind you that the white people of South Africa, and especially the older Dutch population, has been brought up almost entirely on Jewish tradition. The Old Testament, the most wonderful literature ever thought out by the brain of man, the Old Testament has been the very marrow of Dutch culture here in South Africa. 
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Given the timing of her book, Regina Sharif couldn&#039;t have covered some of the later developments described in this article and &lt;a href=&quot;http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/04/21/militant-islam-and-the-extreme-right/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;. Also, an interesting &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.al-moharer.net/falasteen_docs/regina_sharif.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;essay&lt;/a&gt; in which she delineates the links between Zionism and British Imperialism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Regina Sharif&#8217;s carefully researched book, <i>Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History</i> which was published in 1982 (when Apartheid was very much alive) is a good resource on the early links between Zionism and white sumpremacism in South Africa. Following is an excerpt:</p>
<p>The similarity between Zionism and South African apartheid consists in their common appeal to a &#8216;civilizing&#8217; influence, invoking Biblical precepts. The Dutch Reformed Church, the church of the Afrikaner settlers relies on Old Testament passages to demonstrate that the inequality of the races is ordained by God. The black natives of Africa are considered to be the inferior descendants of Ham whereas the white settlers regard themselves as the descendants of Shem whose mission was to civilize the blacks. </p>
<p>Zionism likewise depends upon Old Testament passages to justify the Jewish claim to the possession and colonization of Palestine. Only the Jews are capable of bringing &#8216;civilization&#8217; back to Palestine where they are reclaiming only what is rightfully theirs according to the Biblical prophecies. </p>
<p>The close interrelationship between Zionism and apartheid was embodied in General Jan Christian Smuts&#8217; Zionist convictions. Smuts&#8217; attraction to Zionism &#8216;welled up not only from his functional role as a surrogate British imperial presence, but from the racist and misconstrued theology of his own Afrikaner people. His Zionism sprang from his own personal background and from his conception of Western civilization, modified by his Calvinist beliefs&#8230;Civilization was equal to &#8216;white&#8217; civilization. White unity was an absolute necessity, and left no room for the traditional Western anti-Semitism. Smuts&#8217; racial philosophy classified the Jews as white while the Arabs ranked with the blacks. The spiritual basis of this racial equation was his belief that the Jews had the same background as his own Afrikaner people. </p>
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They had the same characteristics. Both were sour, bitter people; strictly religious, with their lives based on religion learned from the same book—from the Old Testament&#8230;They were the Chosen People—as the Dutch felt themselves to be the chosen people—chosen by God Himself, set apart and better than other men, and every Jew knew that he had been specially chosen to be a Jew.
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<p>&#8230;Addressing a Zionist audience in 1919 (Smuts) said:</p>
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I need not remind you that the white people of South Africa, and especially the older Dutch population, has been brought up almost entirely on Jewish tradition. The Old Testament, the most wonderful literature ever thought out by the brain of man, the Old Testament has been the very marrow of Dutch culture here in South Africa.
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<p>Given the timing of her book, Regina Sharif couldn&#8217;t have covered some of the later developments described in this article and <a href="http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/04/21/militant-islam-and-the-extreme-right/" rel="nofollow">elsewhere</a>. Also, an interesting <a href="http://www.al-moharer.net/falasteen_docs/regina_sharif.htm" rel="nofollow">essay</a> in which she delineates the links between Zionism and British Imperialism.</p>
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		<title>By: John S. Hatch</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/02/the-tale-of-two-apartheids/#comment-38054</link>
		<dc:creator>John S. Hatch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Israeli apartheid discounts all of humanity just as South Africa&#039;s did. It will not prevail. It must not. It is evil.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israeli apartheid discounts all of humanity just as South Africa&#8217;s did. It will not prevail. It must not. It is evil.</p>
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		<title>By: Ugly Deaf Muslim Punk Gurl!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ugly Deaf Muslim Punk Gurl!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is shocking to me... I had no idea that Israel had ties to the South African apartheid regime!!! As usual, Dissident Voices always deliver the hard truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is shocking to me&#8230; I had no idea that Israel had ties to the South African apartheid regime!!! As usual, Dissident Voices always deliver the hard truth.</p>
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