The real reason the DA and their ilk support Genocidal Israel

On 23/11/2023 | 0 Comments

Opinion

by Zaahied Sallie

Wahbie Long, a UCT Psychology Professor and author of Nation on the Couch: Inside South Africa’s Mind, characterised Israel as a lunatic genocidal State during a Friday sermon he delivered at Mosque Shafee in Bo-Kaap on 17 November 2023.

Like Professor Long, most people with a sound conscience and willingness to do some research on Palestine will conclude the same.

Since 7 October 2023, Apartheid Israel’s genociding of Palestinians is as open and flagrant as its notoriety for breaking UN Security Council resolution after resolution, snubbing of UN and international diplomacy, disregard for cease-fires, barring of UN inspections, including the blocking of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Occupied Territories from entering the region.[1]

Apartheid Israel has gone from Occupier to Genocider, and the West, especially the US and the UK, is responsible for its metamorphosis into an unremitting violent obscenity.

The fascistic social arrangement that is Israel can only exist by totalitarian rule. Yet it believes, as well as the West, that it is a democracy. This delusional behaviour is a direct danger to the Palestinians, whom they have brutalised and killed with impunity for decades, and to peace in the region and the rest of the world.

Genocidal Israel has become the archetype, but the organic version, of what many fear would be the dangers of AI. It has grown into an organism independent of the rule of law. The inner promptings of its conscience are extinguished. It is a runaway train, a rabid dog that will continue to inflict egregious harm if not disarmed.

The Birth of Twin Apartheid States

To a degree, Apartheid South Africa was the bastard twin of Israel, both sired by the colonial rapist and plunderer Britain.

David Ben Gurion, the Jewish Agency Chairman and first Prime Minster, ushered in the ethnocratic State of Israel on 14 May 1948. Only 12 days later, DF Malan, one of Apartheid’s key architects, led the Nationalist Party to victory and into the dawn of the Apartheid era. The Apartheid Government was one of the first to recognise the de facto Zionist State.

DF Malan and his Foreign Secretary visited Israel privately in 1953.

The Israeli Foreign Office and Dansky Shaitman of the South African Zionist Federation welcomed them upon arrival. Malan met Ben Gurion for tea. He was the first Head of State to visit the inaugural Prime Minister.[2]

David Ben Gurion and DF Malan (Image: WikiCommons)

Although the relationship between the two countries was tenuous at first, sufficient brokered statecraft by Prime Minister Vorster would cement an enduring political, military and economic relationship.[3]

During the 1967 Six-Day War, Vorster sent a financial package of $20m and looked the other way when 1,000 South African volunteers joined the Israeli military.[4]

In return, Israel helped South Africa develop nuclear weapons and was the channel for American arms into the country when South Africa faced a UN embargo.[5]

The Apartheid military used Israeli weapons and modified vehicles, and the Apartheid police wore armour manufactured in Israeli settlements. [6]

‘Israel is a source of inspiration for us,’ said Prime Minister Vorster. [7]

Zionist Influence on South African Politics

Since then, the South African Government, the South African Zionist Federation and the South African Jewish Board of Deputies have become inextricably linked. Many members of the SAZF and SAJBD have grown into financial behemoths with the power to influence governments. And influence, they do.

To illustrate the point, from 2021 until now, the biggest eight donors to political parties in South Africa exclusively fund the parties supporting Genocidal Israel bar one.[8]

Five of the donors – Victoria Freudenheim, Mary Slack, Jessica Slack-Jell, Rebecca Oppenheimer (descendants of Harry Oppenheimer) and Martin Moshal – have roots in Zionist Israel and cumulatively donated almost ZAR90m to the Democratic Alliance and Action SA.[9]

The Big Eight funders of South Africa’s major political parties (Image: Daily Maverick)

The donor on the first rung is Capitec owner, billionaire, and DA member Michiel Le Roux.[10]

Le Roux has funded over ZAR50m to the DA during this period and keeps close ties with Tony Leon, former DA leader and Zionist.[11]

In 2019, the two, together with former party strategist Ryan Coetzee, did a deep analysis of the party’s electoral decline.[12]

Donor number eight and last on the rung is Action SA leader and businessman Herman Mashaba.[13]

Wide speculation exists that DA supporter and billionaire Nathan Kirsch was also a donor to the party before the Political Party Funding Act in April 2021 came into operation. The Act enforces donor transparency for sums above 100,000.[14]

South African-born Kirsch invests deeply in the Zionist State.

A Zionist himself, Kirsch acquired Magal Solutions from Israel Aerospace Industries in 1984.[15]

Magal Solutions provides security, border control and surveillance solutions to nations and is responsible for the construction of the Apartheid Wall in Occupied Palestine. In 2014, Kirsch sold his 40 per cent stake to FIMI (First Israel Mezzanine Investors Ltd), making them the majority shareholders.[16]

Magal Solutions’ South African headquarters is in Johannesburg. Arnon Bram, Magal’s CEO and Head of the Africa Business Unit, was previously the CEO of UAV Tactical Systems Limited, the parent organisation of Elbit Systems. Elbit Systems has been the target of Palestine Action[17], a UK activist group that takes direct action against Israel’s arms trade in Britain.[18]

Aeronautics Ltd. has since acquired Magal Solutions and is a subsidiary of RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. RAFAEL is the creator of Israel’s ‘Iron Dome.’[19]

It is apparent from the analysis how far and deep the South African connections with the Zionist State run.

So, when the Economic Freedom Fighters tabled a motion to cut all diplomatic ties with Apartheid Israel, it was to be expected that the DA and those whose campaign coffers the Zionists line would vehemently oppose it.

The opposers of the motion cite that it is not in South Africa’s national interest to cut ties with Israel. But when they say ‘national interest,’ they mean ‘special interest groups.’

Another reason they advance is that South Africa would lose its influence to negotiate a peace resolution with Apartheid Israel. This rationale is laughable, offensive and flies in the face of reason. Given the Zionist State’s cited track record, why would they listen to South Africa when they defy even the US?

I don’t believe these parties are that naive and conclude that it’s a sorry attempt to beguile the citizenry into believing a false narrative.

The scenes of slaughter coming out of Gaza and the West Bank have been ghastly, and the suffering, unspeakable, making the position of South African political parties in support of the Apartheid State of Israel even more deplorable.

Powerful Zionist actors are at play, and many South African politicians, regardless of the country’s Apartheid history, dance to the tunes of their corporate and private wealth, notably the DA.