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Theodor Herzl And His Secret Love Affair With Black Hebrew Israelites
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A jilted love affair in Africa - Full Aericle Can Be Found On Google, The Jerusalem Post
Golda Meir saw Israeli assistance to the continent as a Jewish imperative.
By YEHUDA AVNER Published: FEBRUARY 8, 2006 22:12
Consonant with the austerity of the beleaguered little country it spoke for, the Jerusalem compound of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1959 was as drab and ordinary as a barracks. Inside its prefabricated conference room, 15 Foreign Service greenhorns sat stiffly upright in straight-backed chairs around an oblong table at whose head sat Israel's most celebrated model of straight-laced probity, foreign minister Golda Meir. She was confessing to her novices that she was having a love affair with Africa. In a tone full of conviction and in a Hebrew filled with Milwaukee-sounding pronunciations, she told us there were two things she wanted to drum into our heads: "One is, coming to the aid of the newly independent African states is an emotional thing for me. It is a drive toward universal self-determination and justice which lies at the very heart of my Labor Zionism. Indeed, my African policy is a logical extension of my socialist Zionist principles in which I have always believed. "And the second thing is" - she raised two fingers into a V - "we Jews share with the African peoples a memory of centuries-long suffering. For both Jews and Africans alike, such expressions as discrimination, oppression, slavery - these are not mere catchwords. They don't refer to experiences of hundreds of years ago. They refer to the torment and degradation we experienced yesterday and today. Let me read to you something to illustrate the point." She picked up a book and opened it at a marked page: "What I have here is a novel called Altneuland - Old-New Land, written, as you should know, in 1902 by the founder of the Zionist movement, Dr. Theodor Herzl. In it…" She paused to rummage inside her copious black leather handbag from whose depths she extracted a pair of thick-rimmed spectacles which she perched on her bulbous nose. "In it, Dr. Herzl describes the Jewish state of the future as he imagined it might be. I shall read to you what he said about Africa, and remember this was in 1902: "'There is still one question arising out of the disaster of the nations which remains unsolved to this day, and whose profound tragedy only a Jew can comprehend. This is the African question. Just call to mind all those terrible episodes of the slave trade, of human beings who, merely because they were black, were stolen like cattle, taken prisoner, captured and sold. Their children grew up in strange lands, the objects of contempt and hostility because their complexions were different. I am not ashamed to say, though I may expose myself to ridicule in saying so, that once I have witnessed the redemption of the Jews, my own people, I wish also to assist in the redemption of the Africans."' GOLDA MEIR'S patrician features rearranged themselves into an earnest and dedicated expression, and her voice went husky when she avowed, "It has fallen to me to carry out Dr. Theodor Herzl's vision. Each year more and more African states are gaining national independence. Like us, their freedom was won only after years of struggle. Like us, they had to fight for their statehood. And like us, nobody handed them their sovereignty on a silver platter." There was now a glint of thrill in her clever eyes when she went on, "In a world divided between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots,' Israel's nation-building experience is uniquely placed to lend a helping hand to the new Africa. We have a vast amount of expertise to offer. For this purpose I have set up a new division for international cooperation, and you people are going to help staff it. We are going to send out to the new African states scores, even hundreds, thousands of Israeli experts of every sort - technologists, scientists, doctors, engineers, teachers, agronomists, irrigation experts. They will have but one task - to unselfishly share their know-how with the African people. So now you understand why Africa is an emotional thing for me?" She leaned into her chair, combed back her bunned hair with the fingers of both hands, lit up a cigarette, and eyeing us through the flame of the match, said, "Does anybody want to ask me a question?" A hand went up. "Are you not afraid the Africans will view us as the new colonialists?" "No, I'm not. Unlike the Europeans Israel is totally free of the taint of colonial exploiters. And unlike wealthy America we can't offer money to win influence. What we have to offer is our nation-building experience, nothing else, no strings attached. Few developing countries in the world have accomplished what we have accomplished...
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