"The Unspoken Alliance": New Book Documents Arms, Nuclear and Diplomatic Ties Between Israel and Apartheid South Africa

Democracy Now by Amy Goodman, Sasha Polakow-Suransky | May. 25, 2010 (News Analysis)

(Multimedia) Israeli President Shimon Peres has denied reports he offered to sell nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa when he was defense minister in the 1970s. On Sunday, the Guardian newspaper of London published top-secret South African documents revealing that a secret meeting between then-defense minister Shimon Peres and his South African counterpart, P.W. Botha, ended with an offer by Peres for the sale of warheads "in three sizes." Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - May. 25, 2010

Sasha Polakow-Suransky provides a keenly informative interview about Israeli close secret cooperation with the racist regime of South Africa to develop and trade nuclear weapons and technology.

It is ironic that a nation formed out of a history of ethnic/racial/religious genocide dealt actively with the racist white government of South Africa, to acquire the demonic weapons of the nuclear age.

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