Lies Against Israel Keep Coming
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.
In light of the $205 million for the disputed Iron Dome and Obama's heralded nuclear disarmament... "According to the Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report, the technologies now in hand will make it possible for the United States to build a global missile defense system that is so capable, flexible, and reliable that potential adversaries will see that they have no choice but to de-emphasize their efforts to use ballistic missiles as a way to obtain their political goals.
However, a review of the actual state of missile defense technologies reveals that this new vision put forth by the report is nothing more than a fiction and that the policy strategy that follows from these technical myths could well lead to a foreign policy disaster.
Read more: A Flawed and Dangerous U.S. Missile Defense Plan
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2010_05/Lewis-Postol
See also: Land-Based SM-3s for Israel - and Others(?) at defenseindustrydaily.com
A draft UN resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran, including limits on global arms transfers, will not block the controversial transfer of Russian S-300 missiles to the Iranian military, which will be used to defend Iranian nuclear facilities. The missile section of the register states that the missile system category "does not include ground-to-air missiles," such as anti-aircraft missiles and anti-missile interceptors like the S-300. Yevgeni Khorishko, a Russian Embassy spokesman, said, "The S-300s is not prohibited....It is not on the list of prohibited items" (Washington Times).
See also: Lifting US ban on Russia's S-300s for Iran blows hole in Israel's security. The S-300 in Iranian hands would place Israel's pilots and population in harm's way (DEBKAfle). And: Iranian teams train on S-300 interceptors at Russian bases at DEBKAfile.
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