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'Scuddy' Shimon "Annabelle's-of-London" Peres' signature....
Are you surprised? Do you think 'savage state' repented? Do you think the Americans arebehind these 'revelations'? Haaretz/ here
"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 Israeli authorities tried to stop South Africa's post-apartheid government declassifying the documents at Polakow-Suransky's request and the revelations will be an embarrassment, particularly as this week's nuclear non-proliferation talks in New York focus on the Middle East. They will also undermine Israel's attempts to suggest that, if it has nuclear weapons, it is a "responsible" power that would not misuse them, whereas countries such as Iran cannot be trusted.The MO of a "responsible" power in Qana, South LebanonSouth African documents show that the apartheid-era military wanted the missiles as a deterrent and for potential strikes against neighbouring states.met in Zurich. By then the Jericho project had the codename Chalet. The top secret minutes of the meeting record that: "Minister Botha expressed interest in a limited number of units of Chalet subject to the correct payload being available." ... The "three sizes" are believed to refer to the conventional, chemical and nuclear weapons..." (more/ here)
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