Promoted by Steven D.
Just some history of Israel and the development of the atom bomb in the nuclear reactor of Dimona. Should also add the Vanunu story and Maxwell’s empire, the Mossad and Rafi Eitan. Yep, the Israeli’s are real allies representing western values in an antagonistic Arab world.
One of the most tantalizing news items of the year was buried deep inside the Washington Post ‘s Aug. 19 Style section under the coyly uninformative headline: “Hersh Wins Apology from British Papers.” Persistent readers had to burrow 19 lines into the story to learn that it began with Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh’s charge in his book The Samson Option that the late London Daily Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell and Mirror foreign editor Nicholas Davies had links to Mossad, Israel’s shadowy foreign intelligence agency.
Maxwell and the Mirror Group sued Hersh and his British publisher, Faber & Faber, Ltd. over the charges. Less than two weeks later, however, Maxwell’s body was found floating in the sea near the Canary Islands, where he had been traveling in his yacht, seemingly alone except for the crew.
The manner in which the Czech-born British publishing tycoon’s body was spirited away for burial in Israel after a perfunctory autopsy by Spanish authorities ignited widespread speculation over whether Maxwell, who was in the midst of high-profile negotiations to purchase the New York Daily News at the time, was murdered, committed suicide, or slipped off the deck of the luxurious yacht accidentally or after a heart attack.
Ironies abound here for today’s reader. Shimon Peres, who is now sometimes ridiculed for dovish flights of fancy, was the hard-driving CEO of the bomb project.
Lyndon B. Johnson, a member of the Disciples of Christ, blessed the enterprise at least in part out of biblical appreciation of the covenant between God and the children of Israel. Karpin writes that Johnson was influenced by an inscription his grandfather wrote in the family photo album: “Take care of the Jews, God’s chosen people . . . help them any way you can.”
Joint statement in 1964 by LBJ and PM Eshkol … progress on large scale desalting in Israel
(WRMEA) – The mass crossover to Clinton even included Republican columnist William Safire. The former White House speech writer for Richard Nixon and vigorous defender of Ronald Reagan had become a persistent critic of Bush’s handling of Israel.
Ironically, it was the determination by Bush and his secretary of state, James Baker, to link U.S. government loan guarantees to Israel to Israeli cooperation in the peace process that brought down the hard-line Likud government of Yitzhak Shamir. This, in turn, led to the election of the present Labor government in Israel, which has made possible the two major foreign policy triumphs of the Clinton administration–the White House handshakes of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan.
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Rafi Eitan was interviewed recently on Russia’s RT news. Always interesting to listen to the old Mossad [lying] fox who abducted Eichmann from Argentina. “That was one of the easiest missions in my career.” Talks also about the bombing of the Osirak reactor in Iraq and the impossible mission to do the same in Iran. Refuses to talk about the Pollard case of spying on the United States.
VIDEO Interview Rafi Eitan – When US leaves, Turkey and Iran will split Iraq
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."