From:
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/14112

“JERUSALEM, May 19, 2006 (AFP) - Israel and South Africa carried out a nuclear test on an offshore platform in the northern Antarctic in 1979, according to a newly disclosed US document, Yediot Aharonot newspaper said Friday.

The document, released at the request of the security studies centre at Georgetown University in Washington, says a mystery explosion detected on September 22, 1979 by a US satellite was a nuclear test.

Prepared for the White House in December 1979, it said Israel and South Africa, then under apartheid rule, were cooperating on military issues, including nuclear research.

US intelligence services reported in 1990 that South Africa was producing nuclear weapons, while Israel is estimated to possess 200 nuclear warheads, although it has never confirmed or denied holding such weapons. South Africa later dismantled its nuclear weapons program under UN supervision.”

So, whilst the rest of the world was isolating South Africa for its racist policies, Israel was actively cooperating? The country established to provide a homeland for oppressed Jews was encouraging the oppression of another race?

The Israeli mythology of the Six Day War is breathtaking: consider the USS Liberty incident: whilst it is possible, just, that the Israel Air Force misidentified a large converted freighter festooned with American flags and moving at around 12 knots as an Egyptian destroyer, the continued attack on that vessel after its correct identification begs the question of why Israel wanted an American intelligence gathering ship silenced? (see http://www.ussliberty.org/)

To consider more fully Israel’s strategy look back to the 1964-65 ‘War of the Waters’. Syria wanted to convert its ‘deserts into gardens’. To do this Syria would need the waters from the Jordan. Israel also wanted these waters, so it took aggressive action, firing on Syrian civilian workers undertaking irrigation works. This action temporarily stoped these works, but the Six Day War was intended, amongst other things, to claim all these waters for Israel, and let its neighbours go thirsty.