Posted on 04/20/2011 8:08:52 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
'A deep-rooted hatred of the British': How Israelis 'armed junta' in Falklands conflict
Israel secretly provided arms and supplies to Argentina during the Falklands conflict, according to revelations in a new book.
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.
Gas masks, radar alert systems, air-to-air missiles and fuel tanks for fighter bombers were sent from Tel Aviv to arm General Galtieri’s forces. The most audacious deal involved supplying 23 French-built fighter aircraft – Mirage IIICs – which were camouflaged with the insignia of Peru. But they arrived after the war was over.
Britain, under Margaret Thatcher, retook the Falkland Islands in June 1982, two and a half months after Argentina invaded. Some 255 British servicemen, more than 650 Argentines and three islanders were killed.
Although it was well known at the time that France was supplying missiles to Argentina – most infamously the Exocet missiles used to sink HMS Sheffield with the loss of 20 crew – Israel’s involvement went unnoticed.
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Great Britain’s snobbish, low key British anti-Semitism comes at a price. This has blinded your to your real enemy which is your ongoing invasion by Pakistan and a thousand other Muslim countries. Muslims feel very very at home on your rainy islands. They set up Jihad organizations on British soil and mock you in demonstrations. UK living is so much nicer than living in the marginal arid desert regions of the world. Great welfare benefits for the six children each Muslim family has
Hear Hear!
There is no connection between that and the terrorism of Begin.
Begin’s atrocity at the King David helped to inspire modern day Islamic terrorism, of that there is no question.
And this whining from Anglophiles is a farce. Britain's terror night bombings of civilians in WW2 were far worse than anything conceived by any member of the Irgun.
Waaaah, after what the Nazis did to Warsaw, it was too good for them.
Plenty of former British colonies had independence movements, but the Brits are hung up on Israel. Hypocritical dhimmi.
Oh, yes. That was one coddling blockade. The British just coddled Asher Tranter to death.
1—The Muslim population, including white and black converts, of Britain is 3% of the population. Try learning the actual facts instead of accepting blindly what Fox News and FR tells you. The ignorance of Freepers re Britain and Muslims is frankly astounding. I have been told that 25% of Britain is Muslim.
Lunacy.
Oh, and last I looked Dearborn wasnt British and neither is Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Our PM is a nice white Anglo-Saxon/Celtic man.
2—The acts of September 11th 2001 pale into insignificance compared to 1933-1945. Whats your point?.
3—Most British people, then and now, had NO problem with a Jewish homeland, in 1945 the sympathy for Jews was total.
What we then and now had/have a problem with is HOW the Jews gained their homeland. There was NO need and there is NO justification for the terrorism of 1944-47.
If you are going to justify that, you may as well justify the IRA, ETA and even the Taliban.
4—Your downplaying of the terrorism is frankly disgusting. British soldiers were bombed, murdered and even in one notorious incident, two unarmed soldiers were tortured to death and their bodies boobytrapped.
And the Irgun and Stern gang bombed and killed civilians, Arab and Jewish. Even murdering a man who had spent ww2 SAVING JEWS!. Count Bernadotte.
Count Bernadotte wasnt British. Nor were the Jewish and Arab victims of the King David Hotel bombing.
So wheres your twisted justification for their murders?.
5—’minor terror’....what a nice phrase.
Imagine YOUR attitude if I called the USS Cole or even ‘9-11’ minor.
1—Ah, so terrorism by dem Jews is ‘different’ is it?. I used to get that argument from Americans about the IRA as well...was a load of bulls*it then as well.
2—So the USAF didnt bomb Germany as kill civilians 1942-45?.
You DO realise there was more to the Jewish terrorism than one famous bomb?.
What about the swift and cold blooded murder of Bernadotte?. Or the torturing to death of two British soldiers and their boobytrapped bodies (Sgts Martin and Paice). Or the coldblooded attacks/murders of British soldiers and even pro-British Jews (the latter of which had even the Haganah come after the Irgun and Stern and side with the British)....
As to the King David, your trying to make the Irgun seem humane is pitiful. Oh, so they gave a warning.
So f*cking what?. Big f*cking deal.
So did ETA or the IRA.
And you cant tell me that the latter were humane Irish boys that didnt really mean to kill Protestant Irish, British, and in 1983, an American (Harrods bombing)......
My point is that the Americans British deliberately targetted civilians to try to kill enougvh of them to reuce German industrial output and break their spirit. It was Hitler’s London Blitz in reverse, with many more bombers.
To have Yanks whine about dead at the USS Cole is a giant “Waaah”.
There, fixed it for you.
‘Plenty of former British colonies had independence movements, but the Brits are hung up on Israel. Hypocritical dhimmi.’
Try again.
Older British equally despise the Greek terrorists of EOKA who bombed and murdered British soldiers and civilians in the 1950’s. Older British equally despise the black terrorists of the Mau-Mau who brutally murdered British settlers and over 10000 pro-British Kikuyus in the same decade.
Try saying the names Makarios and Kenyatta to any Brit over 65 and see the disgust....
And ask any Brit old enough to remember the IRA (like myself)
For your information, the terrorism in Palestine and the Irgun/Stern have been forgotten in Britain and are almost unknown to anyone here under 65 who isnt a history buff.
Far from being ‘hung up on them’, most British people have never even heard of them...
You are justifiably angry about British being terrorized 60 years ago by the Irgun and other Jews.But you know well as I that was the only way the Jews were going to get a homeland called Israel. Your memory goes far back and so does mine to WW2. 6 million Jews were murdered, as I said, that terrorism was 1000x larger than the Irugn etc terrorism aginst the British. That whole era was full of war and population shifts
Muslims own London. I know people who won’t go there anymore. One guy used to love to go the Hyde Park free speech area. He says that is now just Muslim ranting
European cities are being taken over by high birthrate Muslims. It’s not just England. You want to know your future you have to look at who is in your elementary schools today. If you live in Scotland you see fewer Muslims.
The average Brit does not know the specifics but he does know the Jews forced the British to leave Palestine and he has been brainwashed to be pro-Arab and to have a snide anti-Israel outlook by the BBC which seems to be a massive employment agency for Muslims and other pissed off third worlders
1—Muslims do not own London.
Firstly by nature, any city ever has been or is a melting pot. Secondly, without being rude, as the days after Sept 11th showed, many Americans cannot tell the difference between Muslim, Sikh and Hindu. How many ‘Moozlims’ that Americans see (or lets be blunt, ‘a friend who was just in London’) are actually of those faiths or even Buddhist or even Christians?.
2—You know people, yes?. So thanks for making my point that many Americans go on what people tell them or what they read or see on rightist media. Be it FR or Fox or talk radio.
People like you here on FR always never have actual first hand experience of Britain/London/the ‘Briddish Moozlim problem’.
3—Hyde Park is famous for what, my friend?.
Thats right, Speaker’s Corner.
Hyde Park is famous for people ranting to a crowd, full stop!.
2—So the USAF didnt bomb Germany as kill civilians 1942-45?.
We made an effort not to, but of course we did. The joint American British operations to create firestorms in Hamburg and Dresden were just evil. And, we did this all by ourselves to Japan. People get caught up on the atom bombs, when more Japanese died in the firebombings.
War is ugly.
Is the British press half as anti-Greek as it is anti-Israeli?
What about the swift and cold blooded murder of Bernadotte?.
I'm well aware of the murder of Count Folke Bernadotte. His work with refugees saved my grandmother's life.
Sgts Martin and Paice
Retaliation for the kidnapping and murder of Irgun members bringing in arms. The Irgun wanted to exchange them.
Or the coldblooded attacks/murders of British soldiers and even pro-British Jews (the latter of which had even the Haganah come after the Irgun and Stern and side with the British)....
Some actions cannot be condoned. Every country has had them.
As to the King David, your trying to make the Irgun seem humane is pitiful. Oh, so they gave a warning. So f*cking what?. Big f*cking deal. So did ETA or the IRA.
They bombed occupation hq?
And you cant tell me that the latter were humane Irish boys that didnt really mean to kill Protestant Irish, British, and in 1983, an American (Harrods bombing)......
A department store in London, has nothing to do with anything in Belfast. Bombing it was terrorism.
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