Israel has a notorious history of serving not only American imperialist endeavors but specifically far-right, authoritarian and fascist regimes. Especially covertly, particularly in Latin America, but throughout the Global South:
Israel has a notorious history of serving not only American imperialist endeavors but specifically far-right, authoritarian and fascist regimes. Especially covertly, particularly in Latin America, but throughout the Global South:
Israel and Apartheid South Africa cooperated to develop nuclear weapons in the 1960s and 1970s. Israelis trained South Africa’s elite military units, sold tanks and aviation technology to its army, and licensed the production of Galil rifles at a factory in South Africa.
Israel supported the brutal military dictatorship in Argentina despite it giving refuge to known Nazis.
During the 1980s, Israel was the chief supplier to the Guatemalan army, trained anti-terror squads in Honduras, and sent hundreds of tons of weaponry to the Nicaraguan Contras (for the US).
Israelis established private security forces in Colombia that ranchers used to protect themselves and dispatch their enemies, and did the same in the Philippines during the Marcos era.
Dictators from Chile to Indonesia equipped their armies with Israeli-made Galil assault rifles and Uzi submachine guns.
Israeli advisers trained anti-Marxist rebels in Angola and Libyans fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
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