In times of war all countries launch weapons from civilian areas. This is a red herring.
How did such a large Jewish population in South Africa arise? Did they disproportionately emigrate to South Africa from Holland back in the day?
They were originally traders with the Portugese then Dutch, diamonds, gold, wool, sugar, slaves etc, Dutch East India company. Later more modest backgrounds.
From what I can gather, poorer Jews went to to become socialists, richer vile capitalists. Some of the greatest socialists/anarchists have been Jews, as are some of the new world orders wealth owners and exploiters, bankers.
Interesting article.
http://edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/chap8.htm
Until the early part of the eighteenth century, the entire world's supply of diamonds came from India. The caravans that brought them across Arabia traded these rare stones to Jewish traders in Aden and Cairo for gold and silver. The traders then resold them to Jewish merchants in Venice, Lithuania, and Frankfurt. It was a natural enterprise for the Jews scattered throughout central Europe: Since they were moneylenders, they had to concern themselves with assessing, repairing, and selling gems that had been offered to them as collateral for loans. They also had close connections with the Jewish trading centers in the Ottoman Empire through which all the Indian diamonds passed.
The cutting and polishing of diamonds, moreover, was one of the few crafts that Jews were permitted to participate in by the medieval guilds in Europe. For most Jews, there was no choice in those days: If they wanted to have a vocation, it had to be either gem-polishing or money lending. In either case they dealt with diamonds.
In the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese succeeded it, establishing an ocean route to India, the caravan routes were supplanted by ships. The Jews in Portugal, who were mainly Sephardic (i.e. non-European) Jews, quickly made arrangements in Lisbon for ships' officers to buy diamonds directly from the Indian miners in Goa. And Lisbon became the main entry point in Europe for diamonds.
