Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear weapons.
The “top secret” minutes of meetings between senior officials from the two countries in 1975 show that South Africa’s defence minister, PW Botha, asked for the warheads and Shimon Peres, then Israel’s defence minister and now its president, responded by offering them “in three sizes”. The two men also signed a broad-ranging agreement governing military ties between the two countries that included a clause declaring that “the very existence of this agreement” was to remain secret.
The documents, uncovered by an American academic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in research for a book on the close relationship between the two countries, provide evidence that Israel has nuclear weapons despite its policy of “ambiguity” in neither confirming nor denying their existence.
Doesn’t surprise me. They had a lot in common.
Israel has a 20% Arab minority *now*, they are also surrounded by a sea of hostility.
Israel did not SELL the nukes, they traded them for the raw material to make a hell of a lot more. They had the know how but lacked the raw materials.
>> clancys_daddy said, on May 24th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
>> 1975 most of the folk on this blog my self included were to put it mildly youngsters. The rest weren’t even hatched yet. If this is news, so is the fact that I had a good movement this morning.
I was a teen but I have a very vague memory that this was a news story at the time — maybe in a Jack Anderson column.
The right wingers hated him like hell and it makes me miss him all the more!
>> Posted by honeyman in Politics, international, military
>> Doesn’t surprise me. They had a lot in common.
You mean apartheid? The right wingers went ape-crazy when Jimmy Carter used “apartheid” as a cautionary term for Israel.
Israel and South Africa are fairly different situations so I would not use the term “apartheid” to describe the second-class status of Arabs in Israel
But I will say that Israel has really lost the moral high ground it had and deserved after WWII.
(Not to defend the Palestinian terrorists and their supporters! There are plenty of victims and victimizers on each side of that conflict.)
“1/7 Syndrome of Control” You Tube-Lindsey Williams-Testimony Jonathan May.
The Committee of 300 1/10 You Tube-Dr.John Coleman
Benjiman Freedman Speech WW1-11-111 You Tube
The Book The Founding Myths of Modern Israel
By Roger Garaudy
Treason-The New World Order BY Gurudas
Turkey-Greece-Ireland-Kuwait-Algeria ships
head toward Gaza now with supplies for Palestine.
Walter E. Haas Search yahoo-Google.com
God Bless America
#33 GregAllen,
I don’t know that I agree that Israel ever really had such a moral high ground, personally. It’s more that the terrorists took a particularly low moral ground (especially for those of us who remember Yassir Arafat claiming responsibility for blowing up school buses) that made the middle of the road look nearly pristine.
Israel is still just a bunch of people who have been dealing with a really difficult situation for over 60 years. How many of us would still have perfect morals after sending our kids to school in armored school buses and hoping beyond all hope that the armor is strong enough?
BTW, I think someone should point out that not all Palestinians living in Israel are terrorists. In fact, I’m betting it’s a pretty small minority who just get into the headlines rather a lot.
#34 – Wally,
Do your own searching and post the links. I, for one, have no freakin’ clue what you’re trying to say and will definitely NOT do your homework for you.
>> Misanthropic Scott said, on May 25th, 2010 at 5:34 am
>> I don’t know that I agree that Israel ever really had such a moral high ground, personally. It’s more that the terrorists took a particularly low moral ground
I was referring to the Holocaust post-WWII standing they had in the world’s eyes.
There was a overwhelming global sense that the world owed Israel a gigantic good deed after WWII.
I doubt the founding of Israel would have happened had it not been for the Holocaust.
But the behavior of Israel since then has pretty much ended that global good feeling for them — with the exception of Americans who mostly don’t read international news beyond the headlines.