The Big Picture: Israel’s African Misadventure

By Anwar Kazaure

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Israel’s foray into the African scene began in an unforgettable 

fashion; it was 1973 and the Yom Kippur war was raging 

across much of the Sinai Desert, the Golan Heights and on the 

Suez Canal itself. The Egyptians had just achieved an element 

of surprise, crossed the no-mans land and overran fortified 

Israeli positions that were built in the peninsular following its 

seizure by the IDF in the Suez Crisis of 1956.

From the brink of defeat, thanks to the strategic military blunders 

of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the massive air-lift of new 

equipment by the United States, Israel was able to beat back the 

Egyptian assault and launch a counter-strike spearheaded by units 

under the command of Ariel Sharon who identified a gap in the 

Egyptian defensive line and consequently executed a pincer which 

saw Israeli forces crossing to the African side of the canal to cut-

off and completely encircle the Egyptian 3rd Army.

This action borne out of war time necessity created a diplomatic 

uproar in African capitals which resulted in an unanimous decision 

by the members of the Organization for African Unity (O.A.U)- a 

predecessor of today’s African Union, to sever all ties with the 

Zionist regime.

Further incidents such as the Israeli Commando Raid inEntebbe and its close collaboration with the Apartheid regime of South Africa also played a crucial role in shaping Israel’s image as an aggressive and unfriendly imperialist colonial entity in the African psyche, a foreign policy disaster Israel may never recover from.

Despite its direct bearing on its legitimacy and the long-term 

consequences, for much of the 70s and 80s, Israel continued to 

take 

an antagonistic posture in its relationship with Africa, the extent of 

which can never be underestimated.

“Israel provided expertise and technology that was central to 

South Africa’s development of its nuclear bombs” and according 

to Dieter Gerhardt, a Soviet spy and former commander in the 

South African Navy, Israel agreed in 1974 to arm eight Jericho 

II missiles with “special warheads” for South Africa.

This recent revelations of Israel’s nascent activities in Africa 

made it impossible to look at the writings of Theodore Herzl, the 

father  of political Zionism with anything but surprise and 

contempt, 

for it is he who once said “once I have witnessed the redemption of 

the Jews, my people, I wish also to assist in the redemption of the 

Africans.”

Herzl should be turning in his grave, his words are as empty as the 

racist ideological misconceptions that inspire it.  A classic 

illustration of such unwarranted insults that are a vivid reminder of 

the now outdated and discredited idea of the “White Man’s 

Burden” was glaringly visible in the recent movie Django 

Unchained, directed by Tarantino- a known champion of Theodore 

Herzl’s legacy.

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Of Mist & Shadow, The Case of South Sudan

In April 2012, Sudan’s al-Intiba newspaper reported that 

“Israeli  jets have been landing at a Sudan airport at 3 am every day 

unloading missiles, military equipment and African mercenaries”, 

only five months after “The IAF allegedly bombed two land cruiser 

vehicles, killing four passengers.

A second attack was reportedly carried out on December 18 in 

which a car had been bombed and all its passengers killed. It was 

also reported that an Israeli Apache helicopter landed in an area 

where South Sudanese army radar stations are located.”

This is merely a glimpse into the reality of a conflict that has been 

going on for decades, with every possible mention of the huge trail 

of Israeli presence and participation in the theater completely 

obliterated from the script of the international mainstream media.

It is yet early to write a conclusive account of the role Israel played 

in the destabilization and Balkanization of the Sudan, but 

subsequent developments which followed South Sudan’s secession 

such as the dependence of the ruling former S.P.L.A guerrillas on 

Israeli Military support and the immediate signing of oil deals with 

several Israeli companies which effectively gave Israel a big slice of 

South Sudan’s huge oil wealth points to a more sinister past.

Of manufactured rebellions and bloody insurgencies, of conflicts artificially designed to drain African nations of valuable resources, of spreading chaos and arming brutal criminal groups that are known for their genocidal atrocities and  the strong support they receive from a shadow entity.

The arrest and conviction of Yair 

Klein, a former lieutenant colonel in the 

Israeli Army who spent 16 months in a 

Sierra Leonean prison on charges that 

he 

was smuggling arms to rebels from the 

Revolutionary United Front (RUF)- the 

terrorist gang of bloodthirsty thugs who 

gave the phrase “Blood Diamonds” its horrific connotation, is not 

just a story of a cold-hearted mercenary but an indictment of the 

forces he represents.

The UN Security Council’s panel of experts on Liberia established 

in 2000 revealed that Israel was at the heart of a shadowy 

international network of support for the RUF, involving Liberian, 

South African, Kenyan, and Ukrainian arms suppliers and diamond 

mining interests.

Counting the Cost

LOONY-TUNES: Nigeria & The False-Flag Fiasco

Recently, the Nigerian Newspaper Daily Trust reported the 

discovery of a huge arms cache in Bompai Kano by the men of the 

Nigerian Army. The underground depot was found at the residence 

of a Lebanese expatriate. What is most significant about this find is 

the volume and quantity of sophisticated weaponry and munitions.

The inventory which includes a variety of sub-machine guns, Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG), Anti-Tank Missiles, 700 Standard Issue Grenades, Military Grade Explosives and Anti-Aircraft Surface to Air Missiles. In short, enough firepower to start a serious debacle and cause significant damage to the fragile peace in Nigeria.

This incident is just another in a series of unexplained mysteries 

that demand a careful appraisal if the trend of instability and 

criminal violence is to be contained.

The facts on the ground are pointing ever closer to the possibility 

that the country is indeed a new theatre in the phony ‘war on 

terror’ and as such we may be witnessing a new incarnation of the 

age-old strategy for destabilization in the guise of False-Flag 

Terrorism.

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Connecting the Dots

In late 2006, Eliav Hommossany- an Israeli with ties to Mossad 

and Shin Bet was arrested and charged with espionage in Nigeria. 

The Israeli Newspaper Haaretz reported that Eliav was suspected 

of infiltrating Nigeria’s Defense Ministry and with the assistance of 

some corrupt Nigerian officials; he succeeded in obtaining 

classified 

documents. No Nigerian Media printed the story, and neither did 

they do so in 2009 when a similar incident re-occurred.

Among the troves of U.S Diplomatic Cables released by the 

whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, one particular document (C O 

N F I D E N T I A L ABUJA 001292 ) entitled “Don’t Ask, Don’t 

Tell” makes for a fascinating reading.

Its revelation of the widespread activities of Israeli Defense Contractors operating in Nigeria and Conducting Operations ranging from VIP-protection to running Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) with the tacit and informal approval of Nigeria’s security establishment is if anything, timely. 

Since 2010, The Israeli Ambassador Mr Moshe Ram has been 

interfering in Nigeria’s internal politics by taking sides on sensitive 

issues which foments disunity and incites inter-tribal tensions.

It is on public record that in the past year alone, the Ambassador 

has confused defending the policies of his right-wing Likud 

government with spreading black propaganda, encouraging 

Islamophobia and capitalizing on the unique nature of Nigeria’s 

political situation by jumping on topics which antagonizes the 

South against the Muslim-majority Northern Nigeria. Is this not 

Divide & Conquer?

Israeli Companies make huge profits in defense contracts awarded as a result of the growing insurgency. They supply the Nigerian Government with everything from arms, surveillance equipment to Unmanned Drones deployed in the fight against Boko Haram.

They were recently selected as one of the two countries to train 

battalions of Nigeria’s Counter-Insurgency and Counter-Terrorism 

personnel. These are just a few of the economic gains which Israel 

reaps from the ongoing crisis, for without the suicide bombs and 

terror attacks; there would be no demand for such deadly wares.

In a new scandal, the Nigerian President is currently facing 

widespread public outrage over a $40 Million contract awarded 

to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems which would reportedly 

enable the Nigerian government to surveil all Internet activity, an 

eerily familiar attack on civil liberties reminiscent of the larger 

NSA PRISM program exposed by Snowden which also bears the 

involvement of Israeli Companies.

This unconstitutional arrangement has created “a lot of 

apprehension among Nigerians, now concerned that their country 

might be sliding back to dictatorship,” wrote Premium Times, an 

Abuja based daily newspaper.

The final nail in the coffin of the massive Israeli espionage program was further exposed as a result of a cyber-operation against Mossad carried out by the Hacker Collective Anonymous which  uncovered “a hidden network of 30,000 covert operatives, some openly labeled hitmen.”

In his Press TV Column where the story appeared on March 31st, 

Gordon Duff wrote “Every day we see it in the news, dozens killed 

in Pakistan, dozens more in Iraq, Kenya, Nigeria, the covert army 

of 30,000, planning terror, building a dozen car bombs a day and 

then being able to, not just write the lies blaming others but, in 

most cases, direct public officials, controlled through blackmail, 

threats or bribery, to respond as directed.” It couldn’t be said 

better.

It is an insurmountable challenge to document the complete dossier 

on Israel’s African Misadventure, because more covert and overt 

activities are planned and executed as I write, it would be left to 

posterity to provide a full account of this ongoing nightmare.