May 28, 2010 "Foreign Policy" -- History is a great teacher, but sometimes it packs a nasty sense of irony. A case in point: South African Prime Minister John Vorster's visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in April 1976, where he laid a wreath to the victims of the German Reich he once extolled.
It's bad enough that a former Nazi sympathizer was treated like an honored guest by the Jewish state. Even worse was the purpose behind Vorster's trip to Israel: to cement the extensive military relationship between Israel and the apartheid regime, a partnership that violated international law and illicitly provided the white-minority government with the weaponry and technology to help sustain its grip on power and its oppression of the black majority over two decades.
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Read it all, save it, disseminate it. Make people aware of BOTH our histories. I do notice a comment about the anc being so overwhelmed by covering it's own inadequacies that it does not recognise the vital international importance of these documents.
While FW et al are vehemently denying, Pretoria has both accepted the validity of these documents, and has assumed a pretense of disinterest. Both are massive mistakes.
As Turkey is finding out, Isreal is a poor ally, and as SA is about to find out, a terrible enemy.
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