Israel’s History of Supporting Dictatorships: The Lesotho Plan Exposed
April 8, 2025
Israel has a long history of backing the most brutal dictatorships in the world.
Recently declassified documents about the Jewish state’s relations with the African state of Lesotho are ugly and deserve wide coverage:
“In the 1970s, Lesotho was a small enclave surrounded by the apartheid state of South Africa. With no natural resources, it was considered one of the poorest and most underdeveloped countries on the continent, and a significant portion of the population was forced to work as manual laborers in neighboring South Africa, especially in the mines. Between 1970 and 1989, Lesotho was ruled by dictatorial regimes, first a civilian dictator and then a military dictator.
“Despite all this, Lesotho became one of the most important countries for the State of Israel on the African continent, as it was one of the five countries that did not sever diplomatic relations with it following the Yom Kippur War (1973).
“Foreign Ministry documents in the state archives that were opened to the public in recent months reveal that the price for not severing diplomatic relations was Israel’s assistance in the internal suppression of the opposition and the underground movement. The documents provide an “X-ray” of the State of Israel’s system of considerations in its relations with dictatorships.”
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