Bany Israel’s bloody West African diamond trade

Diamonds are Israel’s second largest industry bringing in at least $13
billion. Israel buys half of the world’s rough diamonds, two-thirds of
which then go to the U.S. 
Before the 2001 assassination of Congolese neocolonial leader Laurent
Kabila, Israeli diamond traders had brokered an exclusive deal with
Congo for their diamonds. It was similar to the deal Tempelsman had
made with Mobutu 40 years earlier. 
The deal was worth $600 million worth of diamonds for the Israelis in
return for arming and military training for Kabila’s troops. Even
without this monopoly, certain firms in Israel still control 50 percent of
Congo’s diamonds exports, or a billion dollars worth.
Control of the trade in African diamonds may have played an
underlying role in the recent deadly Israeli war against the people of
Lebanon as well. 
Lebanon also is said to have its fingers in the diamond trade,
importing rough diamonds from Congo. More than 100,000 Lebanese
live in Sierra Leone, and according to reports, are the “market-
dominant minority” in the alluvial diamond trade of that country.
In Sierra Leone, Lebanese traders control the majority of diamond
buying shops, allegedly also smuggling diamonds out of the country off
the books. 
According to an article by J. Peter Pham of World Defense Review,
profits from some of these smuggled diamonds go to the Hezbollah
resistance forces. We don’t know if that is true or simply allegations of
U.S. and Israeli backed journalists to justify Israel’s deadly attacks.
One thing is clear though. African resources are used as a feeding
ground by just about everyone in the world except African people
themselves. As the white world and others get richer and richer off of
the bounty of Africa, African people face genocide and ever deepening
poverty.
The African People’s Socialist Party and African people around the
world intend to change that.