July 6, 2016, +972 Magazine http://972mag.com (Israel)
The Israeli public and its
government need to internalize that ‘Israel’s pride,’ its wildly successful
military export industry, has been an unending nightmare for the people of
Africa. How can Netanyahu look the Rwandan and Ugandan people in the eyes?
By Itay Mack*
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
currently on a tour of African states of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Kenya.
For decades, Israel’s relationship with the
African continent, from South Africa to the Sahara, has been almost entirely
based on military and arms exports that have fueled oppression, civil wars and
murderous
