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'A deep-rooted hatred of the British': How Israelis 'armed junta' in Falklands conflict
The Daily Mail ^ | 20th April 2011 | Mail Foreign Service

Posted on 04/20/2011 8:08:52 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki

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All smiles: Margaret Thatcher shakes hands with then-Isreali Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1979. But the Jewish leader's hatred of the British spurred him to send weapons to Argentina's military junta during the Falklands War

1 posted on 04/20/2011 8:08:58 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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2 posted on 04/20/2011 8:15:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Sounds like it too.

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3 posted on 04/20/2011 8:18:20 PM PDT by ml/nj
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4 posted on 04/20/2011 8:21:51 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

Disinformation, not just horse manure.


5 posted on 04/20/2011 8:26:21 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

In 1982, Israel was neck-deep in a crisis in Lebanon. The idea that they would divert weapons to Argentina on someone’s personal whim is bull****. Argentina had switched dictators in 1981. And it was no secret that Israel sold arms in S. America, as did the USA and France.


6 posted on 04/20/2011 8:29:59 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Horse patootie..


7 posted on 04/20/2011 8:33:59 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: sukhoi-30mki

I call BS. Argentina gave asylum to tons of Nazi war criminals. Israel would be the last country that would want to help them out.


8 posted on 04/20/2011 8:37:48 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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The way the article felt like it was sure the book and idea were true without any real proof, a few “he said’s” is scary. Did they do any fact checking? Would they have shared that in the article if they did? I would think with the obvious consequences this claim will have they would. I would. I googled the author, unless some one can translate spanish who knows what kind of guy he is.


9 posted on 04/20/2011 8:38:25 PM PDT by enduserindy (Conservative Dead Head)
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To: dfwgator
Yeah, it's not like this hasn't been reported before (even before the conflict was over)

27 May 1982 ... Israeli military equipment on an Ecuadorean cargo plane detained by Federal authorities in New York on Tuesday was destined for Argentina

10 posted on 04/20/2011 8:51:28 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.- H. L. Mencken)
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To: pnh102

While the book is likely to have plenty of crap, it is a fact that Israel sold arms to Argentina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Nesher


11 posted on 04/20/2011 8:54:54 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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This is such a transparent attempt to cultivate antisemitism that a gradeschooler could see through it with ease, let alone someone who has just a layman's expertise on modern international arms dealing.

It's just irrationally stupid, except to someone who hates Jews.

12 posted on 04/20/2011 8:59:54 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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Why am I thinking of the Exocet missiles that were sabotaged by Israel before they were sent to Argentina by, who, Chile?

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13 posted on 04/20/2011 9:09:08 PM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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The international arms trade goes on unceasingly, is extremely fluid, and driven primarily by economics.

Weapons both functional and defective are traded all the time, and clandestine "adjustments" are often made according to the fluidity of the situation, and generally follow the national interests of the nations involved.

35 year old personal grudges, if existent, simply do not play into national interests. If so, somebody in Washington must really hate the Brits for hanging Patriots, because we sold the Argentines complete submarines armed with really neat stuff, and on credit, no less.

Additionally, (be prepared to laugh) the Brits must have been feeling guilty about Israel, because they sabotaged Saddam Hussein's Babylon gun by not delivering the breech section (and two others), after building them and getting paid for it.

14 posted on 04/20/2011 9:57:39 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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The real reason to doubt this story....is that Israel would never send weapons to the country that was hiding Nazis after WW II....no way Israel helps Argentina

While true that Menachem Begin did not like the British....there was a famous hotel bombing in the 1940’s that basically forced the British out of Israel...many believed Begin was involved....many Israelis at the time did not like the British because they were too coddling to the Arabs.


15 posted on 04/20/2011 10:27:14 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (Karl Rove = Karl Marx)
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That’s not borne out by facts. Israel has had defense ties with Argentina and there’s nothing particularly wrong with that since the US, France and even Britain had strategic ties with that regime.

How else would you explain the presence of Israeli made warplanes and missiles during the Falklands war.


16 posted on 04/21/2011 1:49:47 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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Wow, Israel sold arms to another sovereign nation. That's almost unheard of in this day and age, no one sells arms. What's next, Israel allied with a certain European island nation to recover their lost canal. Eight years after a certain island nation in Europe supplied arms and personel to the Arabs trying to destroy Israel. While boycotting arms purchases by Israel. There's a deep rooted hatred at work here, and it's not Israel hating the Brits. Next, how Israel traded arms to the IRA in exchange for English children. The Brits invented that charge.

18 posted on 04/21/2011 5:00:00 AM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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Israeli made warplanes???


19 posted on 04/21/2011 5:02:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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For the second time in this thread-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Nesher


20 posted on 04/21/2011 5:17:30 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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