How does Israel fit into the big picture?

[Mark Stapleton]

It is interesting the whole parallel apartheid wall (existence) being built around parts of the occupied territories and the bantustans of old South Africa. Also, as two pariah states apartheid South Africa and Israel had strong ties.

There is a strong bond between South Africa and Israel, imo.

For years they shared similar geopolitical circumstances. They might have shared nuclear technology as they emerged with nuclear capability at roughly the same time. Of course, when it comes to the military application of apartheid, Israel is in a class of its own.

There's also the story of Malcolm Fraser's pants. I was told by an ex spook, who I regard as honest, that the pants swiping was the work of a Mossad spook, who was in town at the time, and did it as a favor to his South African fellow spooks. Fraser was a vocal critic of South African apartheid at the time.

I can't verify the accuracy of it, but it seems plausible.