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

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Israel and South Africa really are very similar countries

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

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

Thankfully one no longer is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

Indeed.

But the ANC and Hamas are not similar at all.