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From: baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
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Subject: Re: Tutu Makes a DooDoo
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> Israel does not discriminate.  For instance:
> 
>    Israel has traded with black African nations
>       that also repress blacks and asians
>       (e.g. Ethiopia and Unganda).
> 
>    Israel has also traded with nations that oppress white people
>       (e.g. nations in the Soviet block.  They oppress people of
>       all races.).

I believe that accusations of Israeli discrimination are usually directed
at domestic rather than foreign policies, not unlike South Africa in that
regard.  Israel may not be one of South Africa's biggest trading partners, 
but as two regionally dominant international paraiahs, they have long history
of close diplomatic relations and strategic co-operation.  I doesn't matter
if the persistent reports that South Africa has nuclear weapons courtesy
of Israeli technology are untrue.  The fact that they are believed in some
circles means that Israel and South Africa are so linked in the minds of
Tutu's constituency that he was obligated to speak out.  

					Baba