It is astonishing that TJ Huddlestone (What did Israel supply? June 18) queries that Israel blatantly violated the UN arms embargo against apartheid SA and demands to know what weapons Israel supplied. For starters: strikecraft warships, Jericho missiles, Galil machine guns, nuclear weapons technology and 50 Cheetah fighter aircraft, against which SA supplied uranium and money. In the words of former Israeli ambassador to SA, Alan Liel: "When Israel finally began to back away from the apartheid regime, the security establishment balked. They said: ‘You’re crazy. It’s suicidal. We would not have military and aviation industries unless we had SA as our main client from the mid-1970s. They saved Israel.’" In an article headlined Glencore resumes payments to dodgy Dan Gertler as it clings to DRC mines, Business Day on Friday reported Gertler — the diamond magnate who keeps Joseph Kabila in power against plunder of cobalt, diamonds, coltan, copper required by the "First World’s" war busi...
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