Rwanda
Updated 2023-10-27
2023-02-22 The Israel of Africa Rwanda is often referred to as “the Israel of Africa” and it has had a very special relationship with Israel ever since the Tutsi army led by Paul Kagame defeated Rwanda’s Hutu government in 1994.
In 2012, Rwanda was one of three of 54 African member states which abstained on UN General Assembly Resolution 67/19 that upgraded Palestine to non-member observer state status in the United Nations General Assembly.
In 2013, Rwandan President Paul Kagame teamed up with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, and Las Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson and for “A UN Week Discussion in Prelude to the 20th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide and the International Response to the Syrian Chemical Slaughter,” deploying Rwanda’s tragedy as an excuse for bombing Syria .
In 2014, Rwanda was one of two African nations then sitting on the UN Security Council that abstained on a vote to call for an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and recognize a Palestinian state by 2017. (The resolution needed a minimum of nine votes and got only 8, but the US would have vetoed it in any case.)
In 2015, Haaretz exposed the miserable fate that awaited African migrants exported from Israel to Rwanda after a deal in which Israel agreed to pay Rwanda $5000 for every African deported there.
In 2017, Kagame became the first African leader to address the American–Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual forum.
In 2019, Israel opened its first embassy in Rwanda.
In 2021, Amnesty International reported that Rwanda was using Israel’s Pegasus spyware “to potentially target more than 3,500 activists, journalists and politicians. It was also used to infect the phone of Carine Kanimba, Paul Rusesabagina’s daughter, of Hotel Rwanda fame.” https://www.blackagendareport.com/israel-africa-0
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