Israel offered nukes to apartheid S. Africa to fight off the "dark peoples"

[Kuya]

From the Guardian:

But as is shown by Sasha Polakow-Suransky's book, The Unspoken Alliance, that relationship went beyond mere convenience.

For years after its birth, Israel was publicly critical of apartheid and sought to build alliances with the newly independent African states through the 1960s.

But after the 1973 Yom Kippur war, African governments increasingly came to look on the Jewish state as another colonialist power. The government in Jerusalem cast around for new allies and found one in Pretoria. For a start, South Africa was already providing the yellowcake essential for building a nuclear weapon.

By 1976, the relationship had changed so profoundly that South Africa's prime minister, John Vorster, could not only make a visit to Jerusalem but accompany Israel's two most important leaders, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, to the city's Holocaust memorial to mourn the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

Neither Israeli appears to have been disturbed by the fact that Vorster had been an open supporter of Hitler, a member of South Africa's fascist and violently antisemitic Ossewabrandwag and that he was interned during the war as a Nazi sympathiser.

Rabin hailed Vorster as a force for freedom and at a banquet toasted "the ideals shared by Israel and South Africa: the hopes for justice and peaceful coexistence".

A few months later, the South African government's yearbook described the two countries having one thing in common above all else: "They are both situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples."

A year earlier, Israel had offered to sell South Africa nuclear warheads.

"South Africa's leaders yearned for a nuclear deterrent – which they believed would force the west to intervene on their behalf if Pretoria were ever seriously threatened – and the Israeli proposition put that goal within reach," Polakow-Suransky says in the book.

The deal did not go through but there was plenty of other cooperation in the development of military technology.

Polakow-Suransky establishes that the relationship was so intimate that in the mid-1970s, South Africa lifted the safeguards supposed to govern how the yellowcake was used to prevent nuclear proliferation.

In return, Israel sent South Africa 30 grams of tritium, which gives thermonuclear weapons the boost to their explosive power. The delivery was enough to build several atomic bombs, which South Africa did in the coming years.

From Al Jazeera:

The documents confirm accounts by Dieter Gerhardt, a former South African naval commander, jailed in 1983 for spying for the Soviet Union.

After his release following the collapse of apartheid, Gerhardt said there was an agreement between Israel and South Africa called "Chalet" which involved an offer by the Jewish state to arm eight Jericho missiles with "special warheads".

According to the paper, Gerhardt said these were atomic bombs. But until now there has been no documentary evidence of the offer.

"The Israeli defence ministry tried to block my access to the agreement on the grounds it was sensitive material, especially the signature and the date," he told the paper.

"The South Africans didn't seem to care; they blacked out a few lines and handed it over to me. The ANC government is not so worried about protecting the dirty laundry of the apartheid regime's old allies."

Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, with around 200 warheads, but it has a policy of neither confirming nor denying that.

It has refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or to allow international surveillance of Dimona in the southern Negev desert.

Who could have known that Apartheid S. Africa and Israel were BFFs? But i guess they both do have a "dark peoples" problem.

[Rhinox]

Let me make a prediction right now.



This story won't be picked up or investigated by Washington or the mainstream press.


and we'll continue supporting Israel.

[Acturus]

Operation: Shalom Behind the Darkies

[Plow]

That's what those darkies get for building a continent in a war zone.

[Khajit]

That's what those darkies get for creating mankind in a war zone.

Fixed

[Plow]

Well, either way, if only they had a circumcision gun...

[Kuya]

Around Arabs and Blax, never relax.

[Zilong]

Abraham shouldn't have pussied out when God dare him to BBQ his son

[Meat]

wait a second now, i'm a dark person, but i'm a jew. what's going on

[Zilong]

you should totally nuke yourself

[Khajit]

You need to be edumacated on how to use toilets and wipe your ass using toilet paper when you enter Israel obviously.

[Gwynplaine]

Another day, and another Kuya thread critical of Israel.

[Kuya]

I must be an anti-semite. Wait till i make my next anti-Us government thread so we can discuss how anti-american i am.

[Deftscythe]

Kuya, why don't you respect Israel's right to kill darkies?

[Plow]

Yeah right, we all know mexicans love them some America.


In all seriousness, though, we obviously just need to stage a military takeover of Israel. They don't belong there, never did, so let's just take them out. It's not like they're going out without a fight, so might as well just glass em.

Right?

[Cephius]

Neither article seems to explain what exactly Israel stood to gain from providing South Africa with nuclear materials. Am I just supposed to believe that they'd risk international sanctions, withdrawl of support from allies, etc all because... they shared a similar-but-not-really "problem" with that country?

[Deftscythe]

Neither article seems to explain what exactly Israel stood to gain from providing South Africa with nuclear materials. Am I just supposed to believe that they'd risk international sanctions, withdrawl of support from allies, etc all because... they shared a similar-but-not-really "problem" with that country?

Israel's benefit was mentioned several times. South Africa was providing them with Uranium.

[Meat]

lotta darkies in Israel tho, you think they'd handle their own dark problem 1st

[Cephius]

Israel's benefit was mentioned several times. South Africa was providing them with Uranium.

Maybe I'm just dense then, because I'm not seeing it. I see Israel gave South Africa some tritium, but I don't see any mention of Uranium in either article, or anything else being offered to the Israelis in exchange for nuclear materials.

[Kuya]

The Guarding mentions that Israel was fishing for allies in Africa, and S. Africa was providing the yellow cake at the time. It also mentions that S. Africa was the largest customer of weapons from Israel.