Today's left-wing British paper the Guardian has given front-page prominence to an anti-Israel story that it never bothered to check before it went to press.

This potentially damaging story, accuses Israel with offering to sell nuclear weapons to the apartheid government of South Africa. Let me emphasize, the Guardian never contacted Israel to get its side of the story. I guess they did not want to deal with the facts.

Haaretz printed the President of Israel's response to the article. The response included the following:

"There exists no basis in reality for the claims published this morning by The Guardian that in 1975 Israel negotiated with South Africa the exchange of nuclear weapons," the president's office said in a statement.

"Unfortunately, The Guardian elected to write its piece based on the selective interpretation of South African documents and not on concrete facts," said the statement. "Israel has never negotiated the exchange of nuclear weapons with South Africa. "There exists no Israeli document or Israeli signature on a document that such negotiations took place."

The Guardian attack is just one more in a series of attacks on Israel's nuclear program. These attacks have shifted the focus from Iran attaining nuclear weapons to reigning in Israel's nuclear program.

In the last few weeks there have been concerted efforts to impose a nuclear free zone on the Middle East with the only target being Israel. Meanwhile, the world dithers with its toothless initiatives to deny Iran nuclear weapons. It is ironic that Iran's prime target Israel is being used to provide cover for Iran's nuclear program.