Israel – South Africa 5-29-2010

29, May 2010             Israel – South Africa

 A dark chapter in Israel’s short history has recently come to light.

The Guardian newspaper of London recently published extracts of top-secret South African documents providing details of a meeting that took place between South Africa’s former defense minister, P.W. Botha, and former Israeli defense minister, Shimon Peres. The secret documents revealed that Israel sold apartheid South Africa weapons and shared know-how helping to convert South Africa’s yellow cake uranium into plutonium for bomb making. This hitherto covert trade greatly assisted in prolonging South Africa’s apartheid policies of black oppression. Details of Israel’s trade with South Africa are meticulously documented by senior editor at Foreign Affairs, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, in his new book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid Africa. This exposes Israel’s continuous denial of possessing nuclear weapons.

It is high time that the US demands full accountability of Israel’s weaponry. Israel may indeed face a similar fate to former South Africa if it continues its policies of dispossession of Palestinian land and oppression of its people.