Obama moves to solidify the base

[Lonestar_logic]

What does this have to do with the OP?

This:

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.

I see no relevance between what happened in 1975 and what is going on today. Fact is there is no proof that Israel even had a nuclear weapon in 1975.

In early 1968, the CIA issued a report concluding that Israel had successfully started production of nuclear weapons. This estimate, however, was based on an informal conversation between Carl Duckett, head of the CIA's Office of Science and Technology, and Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb. Teller said that, based on conversations with friends in the Israeli scientific and defense establishment, he had concluded that Israel was capable of building the bomb, and that the CIA should not wait for an Israeli test to make a final assessment because that test would never be carried out.

CIA estimates of the Israeli arsenal's size did not improve with time. In 1974, Duckett estimated that Israel had between ten and twenty nuclear weapons. The upper bound was derived from CIA speculation regarding the number of possible Israeli targets, and not from any specific intelligence. Because this target list was presumed to be relatively static, this remained the official American estimate until the early 1980s.

Nuclear Weapons - Israel

 

[PixieStix]

That sums it up pretty darned good


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[GHook93]

Nope I don't believe that leftist crap. Rather I believe Peres!

Israeli president denies offering nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa | World news | The Guardian

Show of hands, how many in this thread agree with this? Just wondering.

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian

 

[Modbert]

Nope I don't believe that leftist crap. Rather I believe Peres!

Israeli president denies offering nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa | World news | The Guardian

Show of hands, how many in this thread agree with this? Just wondering.

Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian

Of course you would. From your own article:

Today politicians and academics in South Africa said the apartheid regime's cooperation with Israel was an "open secret" and they welcomed the current government's move to declassify sensitive documents which provided details of key meetings.

Steven Friedman, the director of Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg, said: "There was a close cooperation on a range of issues. In the 1970s and 1980s there was a sudden influx of Israeli nuclear scientists. We knew there was extensive military cooperation."

Professor Willie Esterhuyse, who played a critical role in opening and maintaining dialogue between the apartheid government and the ANC, said: "Most of us knew there was close cooperation on nuclear research with not just Israel but also the French. But we had no factual evidence. We eventually figured out it was more than just rumours, but we never knew the precise details."

Opposition politicians praised the post-apartheid government for resisting attempts by the Israeli authorities to prevent the documents from becoming public

 

[Richard-H]

FUCK ISRAEL!


AMERICA OWES ISRAEL NOTHING!

ISRAEL OWES AMERICA IT"S VERY EXISTANCE!

WHEN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT SPEAKS ISRAEL SHOULD KISS HIS ASS PERIOD!

It doesn't matter if he's right or wrong!

The Israel have some gall to board any American vessel under an circumstances!

The Presdient ought to order an Aegis cuiser to escort all American humanitarian shipment to gaza ust to make the pecking order clear!

USS Liberty Memorial

 

[The Rabbi]

FUCK ISRAEL!


AMERICA OWES ISRAEL NOTHING!

ISRAEL OWES AMERICA IT"S VERY EXISTANCE!

WHEN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT SPEAKS ISRAEL SHOULD KISS HIS ASS PERIOD!

It doesn't matter if he's right or wrong!

The Israel have some gall to board any American vessel under an circumstances!

The Presdient ought to order an Aegis cuiser to escort all American humanitarian shipment to gaza ust to make the pecking order clear!

USS Liberty Memorial

They weren't American humanitarian shipments, you ignorant buffoon. They were Turkish allies of Hamas. You know, Hamas, on the U.S. terrorist watchlist.
You make me sick.