Comments - Beatnik Phrenology - by Jeet Heer
Theodor Herzl's letter to Cecil Rhodes
---“You are being invited to help make history,” Herzl wrote to Rhodes. “[I]t doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews… How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial… [Y]ou, Mr. Rhodes, are a visionary politician or a practical visionary… ---
https://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/actually-herzl-was-a-colonialist/
Shimon Peres to E.M. Rhoodie, South African Secretary for Information,
"This cooperation is based not only on common interests and on the determination to resist equally our enemies, but also on the unshakeable foundations of our common hatred of injustice and our refusal to submit to it."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons
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