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
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
Disinformation, not just horse manure.
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.
Horse patootie..
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.
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.
“Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had such a deep-rooted hatred of the British that the Jewish state covertly became the biggest supplier of military equipment to the Argentine military junta. “
Well, that does it. relations between the UK and Israel will not be the same again until Menachem Begin is out of office.
Israel abided by pre-war arms deals with Argentina. Israel had a horrible experience of being betrayed by the perfidious creator of Eurabia Charles De Gaulle, when France refused to honor arms deal with Israel starting in 1966. And the British were no better. Israel helped the British design the Chieftain tank. In 1969, the British stopped sale of this tank to Israel even as they were sold to Iran, Kuwait, Oman, and Jordan. th elast three of which were still in a state of war with Israel. Perhaps Begin would have betrayed Argentina if Thatcher declared that Perfidious Arabist Albion would stop screwing Israel, but Israel needed to sell weapons to keep its domestic arms industry alive and security assured.
It is the British who hate PM Begin for besting them in Mandate Palestine. The British never fail to call PM Begin a “terrorist.”