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Jerusalem helped the Pretoria maintain apartheid.
But the ANC appears willing to deal positively
with Israel.
LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
el Aviv —"The ANC hasn't
forgotten, but..." Alon Liel,
Israel's ambassador to
South Africa, used this con-
struction three times in a televi-
sion interview to describe the new
South African government's at-
titude toward Israel.
The ANC hasn't forgotten, but
now it's looking to the future. The
ANC hasn't forgotten, but the
Oslo accord changed everything.
The ANC hasn't forgotten, but it
wants Israel's expertise.
What is it about Israel that the
African National Congress hasn't
forgotten? Mr. Liel did not go into
details — details that include
electrified fences, gravel-spray-
ing vehicles, surveillance devices,
rifles and a range of other riot-
suppression weaponry and know-
how that Israel sold to South
Africa's apartheid regime over
the years.
Israel also helped develop
South Africa's strategic weapons.
There have been numerous re-
ports that Israel helped South
Africa make an atomic bomb, al-
though even some critics of Is-
rael's past dealings with South
Africa say this is doubtful.
Until the mid-1980s, Israel
was one of the world's minor part-
ners in the maintenance of white
rule in South Africa. The U.S.,
England, France and Japan
made a lot more money from that
enterprise than did Israel. But
then — as the anti-apartheid
movement came to the forefront
of world attention and political
pressure brought on sanctions
that battered South Africa's econ-
omy — the West started pulling
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Israel stayed on, however.
"Until March 1987, Israel was
the only country in the world that
didn't adhere to the United Na-
tions sanctions against military
cooperation with South Africa,"
said Deputy Foreign Minister
Yossi Beilin.
Israel kept doing business with
South Africa until literally the
last day before the U.S. would
have cut off its foreign aid. (As
apartheid began to be negotiat-
ed out of existence, the U.S. re-
sumed trade with South Africa,
and Israel immediately followed
suit.)
Israel's Africa policy was once
built on its brilliant relations with
black countries. From the 1960s
to the beginning of the 1970s, as
these nations came out from un-
der colonial rule, Israel built al-
liances based partly on military
sales and training, but also on
agricultural, technological and
educational aid. A socialistic
country at the time, Israel, on the
whole, was seen as a progressive
force on the continent.
After the 1973 Yom Kippur
War, black Africa broke relations
with Israel. The Arab Boycott and
oil diplomacy left Israel with few
trading partners.
But South Africa was another
isolated, enemy-ridden country;
one with vast natural resources
that Israel needed and a large de-
fense and internal police appa-
ratus that Israel could service.
And so, in 1975-76, Israel began
a not-so-beautiful friendship with
white South Africa, then led by
the infamous John Vorster.