The Israeli Role in the Genocide in Rwanda

[Karl Radl]

The Israeli Role in the Genocide in Rwanda

I recently happened to notice an article in the Israeli daily paper Haaretz, which detailed something of which I had been hitherto unaware. Namely that Israel had a significant auxiliary role in the Rwandan genocide in 1994: where Hutu tribal militia famously killed five hundred thousand to a million of their Tutsi tribal rivals over the course of one hundred days.

It turns out that the Israeli government happily sold large quantities of 5.56 millimeter bullets, as well as guns and grenades captured in the Yom Kippur war in 1973, to the Hutu forces with no questions asked about what they were going to be used for. (1) The Israeli left-wing newspaper Maariv has even suggested that the Israeli government continued to sell the Hutus weapons and ammunition during the genocide. (2)

Also worth noting is that the Tutsis actually claim to be partially descended from jews (3) and the fact that the Israeli government knowingly (and with malice aforethought) connived in their brutal near-extermination by their tribal enemies: is another bit of evidence against Israel's allegedly 'multicultural and diverse' nature.

After all: who cares if a million Tutsis die?

As long as Israel makes money: right?

This morally abhorrent attitude in actively assisting the Hutus in their genocide of the Tutsis has actually helped Israel establish close relations with Rwanda (as well as other African countries) and profit from it diplomatically with the most notable instance being Rwanda's recent vote against the recognition of Palestinian statehood in the United Nations. (4) This is a significant and decided change from the 1960s and 1970s when Rwanda, for example, repeatedly voted against Israel in the United Nations (5) as well as severing diplomatic ties completely in 1973. (6)

It just goes to show that the Israelis are only interested in two things:

A) Money.

B) Gaining political and diplomatic currency that can then be spent in the future.

In other words Israel is deliberately profiting from tyranny, repression and genocide just so long as it is in line with its strategic goals.

References

(1) http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.635058
(2) http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index...daires-should-
(3) http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/...elrwanda-pact/
(4) http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...609884,00.html
(5) Ephraim Dubek, Susan Aurelia Gitelson, Ran Kochan, 1976, 'Black Voting Behaviour in the UN on the Middle East Conflict, 1967-1972', p. 292 in Michael Curtis, Susan Aurelia Gitelson (Eds.), 1976, 'Israel in the Third World', 1st Edition, Transaction: New Brunswick
(6) Ibid, pp. 312-313

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