it is news, you blind abacus. a nation that has nukes clearly does not need foreign aid from us. also, israel is not a responsible country when it comes to nukes. hell, they tried to sell it to south africa once:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ear-weaponsaid
You fail to mention that Guardian piece was denounced and was written based on ambiguities...sort of like your incessant bloviation against Israel...more of your half truths......
It has been alleged, but the truth is unknown.
This is from wikipedia: In 2010, The Guardian released South African government documents that it alleged confirmed the existence of Israel's nuclear arsenal. According to The Guardian, the documents were associated with an Israeli offer to sell South Africa nuclear weapons in 1975.[17][18] However, none of the documents explicitly confirm that Israel possesses nuclear weapons or that it offered to sell them, and The Guardian's interpretation of the documents is controversial. Israel categorically denied these allegations and said that the documents do not indicate any offer for a sale of nuclear weapons. Shimon Peres said that The Guardian article was based on "selective interpretation... and not on concrete facts."[19] Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb and the forthcoming The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb, said
"Nothing in the documents suggests there was an actual offer by Israel to sell nuclear weapons to the regime in Pretoria."
Here is what the Christian Science Monitor had to say about that --
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Midd...el-offer-to-sell-South-Africa-nuclear-weapons
Excerpts --
Israeli President Shimon Peres, who in 1975 was defense minister and whose signature is apparently on an agreement to keep defense dealings with South Africa secret, rejected the claim on Monday. Israel was supplied non-nuclear armaments to South Africa at the time.
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, Mr. Peres 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.
The pledge of secrecy document is separate from the minutes of meetings in which South African officials believed they were being offered nuclear weapons by Israel. Polakow-Suransky says Peres's signature is not on any of those minutes.
Israel has long been thought to have helped South Africas nuclear weapons program which ultimately built six nuclear weapons that were later dismantled. These documents do not indicate that any transfer of nuclear technology took place, and mostly focus on the sale of Israels Jericho missiles.
Israel often said it would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East. But in 1986, Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed the existence of Israel's nuclear program, providing photos to the Sunday Times of London that enabled analysts to estimate that Israel had some 180 to 200 nuclear warheads.
No proof Israel offered nuclear weapons
Cooperating with South Africa's defense establishment was a "shameful" part of Israel's history, <-- totally agree it was shameful....yet...
said Yossi Melman, intelligence correspondent for Israel's center-left Haaretz newspaper, in an interview with Al Jazeera English today. But while Israel received uranium from South Africa in exchange for materials such as Tritium, he added,
there is no proof that Israel ever offered much less provided nuclear weapons.
"Israel offered to sell and develop South Africa with Jericho ground-to-ground missiles," Mr. Melman told the TV station.
"But there is no evidence its only an interpretation by the author and the Guardian
that Israel also offered nuclear warheads for South Africa, and there is no evidence for that.
Such a nuclear deal never happened, wrote Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb, who went farther than Melman in comments posted in a Guardian blog today:
... there is no proof whatsoever that Israel ultimately officially OFFERED those weapons to SA. In fact, I know that Israel did not: Israel neither offered and passed along nuclear weapons (and materials) nor weapons designs to the South Africans. Whatever the SA discussed among themselves in memos, and regardless of what Minister Peres told them, Prime Minister Rabin and the people in charge of the Israeli nuclear program (Mr. Shaleheveth Freier) were never willing to pass along weapons components and/or designs to the SA. Nothing like that ever formally offered to SA, regardless of Peres' reference to the "correct warhead." At the end of the day South Africa did not ask and Israel did not offer the "correct payloads." Israel did behave as a responsible nuclear state.
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