[ml/nj]

Sounds like it too.

ML/NJ

[Vanders9]

Agree. Nations don't deal each other like this because of personal vendetta's - even if Begin was virulently anti-British, he's a politico first, and a pragmatic one at that. Besides, the British had supplied Israel with weapons (Centurion tanks) and even allied with them in 1956.

The French did NOT supply weapons to the Argentine. They HAD supplied weapons prior to the conflict, but on its outbreak they suspended further deliveries of exocet missiles. The Argentines cleverly managed to get the five they had working well enough to score three very impressive hits.

Finally, even IF Israel supplied weapons to Argentina, it would certainly been a pragmatic economic decision, not a political one. But they wouldn't have done it. Its too risky a move. They would certainly have been caught before now.