The implication of Monessa Shapiro’s complaint against Terry Crawford-Browne is that he should judge Israel’s arms exports with the same yardstick as that of China’s questionable arms export standards (China aided apartheid, June 26).
This charge is most regrettable. Is it becoming of the descendants of a people who faced expulsions, pogroms and genocide in Europe to defend the Zionist state’s complicity with gross human rights violations perpetrated by the apartheid South African government, a government that was inspired by Nazi policies and that was headed by a pro-Nazi prime minister from 1966 to 1978? Shapiro’s "proper research" has clearly let her down. It was not Angola and Mozambique that supported the apartheid state, but the colonial power, Portugal. It was not Zimbabwe, but Ian Smith’s Rhodesia with whom apartheid SA had a close mutual relationship. Yes, Iran lent its support to the apartheid state under the brutal and unpopular Shah Reza Pahlavi, but that came to a...
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