{"id":120391,"date":"2018-02-07T09:14:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120391"},"modified":"2018-02-07T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:14:01","slug":"jewish-success-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120391","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Success In South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: <\/p>\n

De Beers was long controlled by the Oppenheimer family, which got into a public feud<\/a> with the Guptas a year ago.<\/p>\n

In general, it\u2019s not a good idea to get on the wrong side of somebody named Oppenheimer. As Hindus<\/a>, the Guptas should have been familiar with the most famous thing anybody named Oppenheimer ever said: Quoting Vishnu, atomic-bomb creator J. Robert Oppenheimer (probably not a close relation to the South African Oppenheimers, but still…) proclaimed, \u201cI am become Death, destroyer of worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jewish role in South Africa\u2019s \u201cwhite monopoly capital\u201d is not insignificant (nor likely irrelevant to Mr. Segal\u2019s point of view). Paul Johnson wrote in A History of the Jews<\/em>: <\/p>\n

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But Jews had always been involved in precious stones (especially diamonds) and bullion, and they played a notable part both in the South African deep-level mines and in the financial system which raised the capital to sink them. Such men as Alfred Beit, Barney Barnato, Louis Cohen, Lionel Phillips, Julius Wehrner, Solly Joel, Adolf Goertz, George Albu and Abe Bailey turned South Africa into the world\u2019s largest and richest mining economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The South African Jewish Report<\/em> estimated in 2016 that Jews still make up 26 percent<\/a> of the 250 richest people in South Africa, despite constituting only 0.14 percent of the population.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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