The storming of the blockade opened the gates between Egypt and Gaza for the first time in a long, long time.
I'd call that an accomplishment, considering.
The South African pro-apartheid groups had no serious following abroad. There were no Boer financiers on Wall Street. The Dutch, Belgians and French who were related by blood to the Boers felt no ties to them, or their way of life. Boer is the Dutch word for "boor, peasant". There were no Boer advertising agencies on Madison Avenue. There was no "Schindler's List" film made about the corralling of Boers into concentration camps when the Brits overran the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. You will get no rise from anyone by accusing them of being "anti-Boer".
The only negative thing that we saw about the Bantu was the Zulus jumping up and down. That was sort of weird. But by and large, it was easy to demonize the Boers, and to make the Bantus into martyrs.We felt sorry for those Indians our great-great-great grandparents offed. Being nice to a Bantu made us feel less guilty.
This is different from the Zionists vs the Palestinians. Image is everything in our modern world.
Jews and Israelis are quite talented at propaganda and exploitation of every resource: " Oppose us and you want another Holocaust. God gave us this Land without a people for us, a people without a land. We are Dan'l Boone in yarmulkes, Jim Bowenstein at the Alamo. God shed his grace on them, and crowned their good, with brotherhood, from Sea (Mediterranean) to shining Sea (Dead)." Very easy to transpose 'American exceptionalism' to "Israeli exceptionalism". Hebrews may have invented exceptionalism, after all. There is but one God and He is One of Us.
As Abba Eban has said, "The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". Their culture is alien and suspect to the people of Christiandom. They eat with their fingers, out of a communal pot. They have really noisy preachers yelling at them five times a day. Their mothers dress them funny. Some of them get too close to sheep and never wear socks. They are like uncouth Jews who have no sense of humor: there is no Palestinian Rodney Dangerfield, Jerry Lewis, or Henny Youngman. There are no Palestinians egg creams, pastramis on rye, bagels or sweet wine on sale at the local supermarket or deli. When a Palestinian opens a restaurant, he has to call it "Mediterranean", which is the word the Lebanese use to avoid using the word "Lebanese".