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Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Israel and South Africa really are very similar countries

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, both were apartheid states at one point...

Thankfully one no longer is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

well also being apartheid, settler colonial states, that relied on US support and technical military dominance over neighbours, and that developed nuclear weapons on their own

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

that developed nuclear weapons on their own

Actually Israel and apartheid South Africa developed and tested nuclear weapons together, see the vela incident...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Indeed.

But the ANC and Hamas are not similar at all.