Reply #3: Guardian: To Vilify Israel, the Truth can Go Hang!

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On Monday the Guardian’s front page story said that in the 1970s Israel tried to sell South Africa nuclear weapons. The story was based on a new book by Sasha Polakow-Suransky (“The Unspoken Alliance”).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-...

Chris McGreal (who wrote the article) claimed “secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime. 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".”

How do we know this meant that nuclear – as opposed to conventional - weapons were offered by Peres? Because McGreal and Polakow-Suransky know the codewords, of course:

"Minister Botha expressed interest in a limited number of units of Chalet subject to the correct payload being available. ….. Minister Peres said the correct payload was available in three sizes. Minister Botha expressed his appreciation and said that he would ask for advice."

The "three sizes" – writes McGreal - are “believed to” refer to the conventional, chemical and nuclear weapons. Not to the size of the conventional weapon, of course. Obvious - isn’t it.

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http://www.thejc.com/blogpost/guardian-to-vilify-israel-truth-can-go-hang