Did Israel sell nuclear weapons to South Africa?
Answer: No.
Ever?
Answer: No
Not even a small sized one?
Answer: I said NO.

Do the Guardian and Independent newspapers have an agenda to discredit Israel in every which way?

Answer: ahem , cough, not really really, just .. blah… ye…n..o

Table 8.8 on Page 230 of “Isolated states: a comparative analysis”
By Deon Geldenhuys lists visits by South African Heads of State.

Of all these countries, only Israel is singled out by KMB (probably through a combination if ignorance and blind hatred) as hosting the “Nazi” Vorster. But, if we take the line promoted by KMB and others, should we assume that all the countries listed below were Nazi or Apartheid fellow-travelers, and possessed of nuclear know-how that South Africa was eagerly seeking? Certainly Britain and France had the technology.

D.F.Malan visited Britain in 1953 (for the Coronation, apparently) Israel, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands.

J.G. Strijdom visited Britain in 1956.

H.F. Verwoerd (the father of Apartheid)visited Britain in 1961

B. J. Vorster visited Rhodesia, Malawi,Portugal, Spain, France, And Switzerland in 1970

J.J. Fouche visited Iran, Austria in 1971 and Malawai in 1972

B.J. Vorster visited Ivory Coast (1974), Liberia, Paraguay and Uruguay (1975), West Germany and Israel (1976)

P.W. Botha visited Taiwan (1980) Britain, Portugal, West Germany, Austria, Italy, Vatican, Switzerland, and France (1984)

Etc. etc. – the list continue with visits by P.W. Botha into 1988.

So, among all these many visits – and the list continues – there were exactly two visits by South African Heads of State in the 30 or so years between 1953 and 1984

You can almost see the writer licking his lips as he contemplates the destruction of the Jewish state. Notice also how he talks about Israel having to mend its ways as if he were lecturing a naughty child.

Everyone should read Bret Stephens’ famous article (he was at that point the editor of the Jerusalem Post) in which he all but says that the Economist is an anti-Semitic magazine. You can find it here (scroll down):

Bret Stephens’ Eye on the Media: Fear and loathing at ‘The Economist’

http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000179.html

Some of the choicer quotes as follows:

“… it would be hard for them to shrug off the fact that even when South Africa faced blanket international sanctions, one country continued to supply it copiously with arms and helped it to build a nuclear bomb: Israel.”

“That the collaboration [BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SOUTH AFRICA] became so deep and long-lasting testifies to how realpolitik can mutate into Weltanschauung, the word the Nazis used for a “world view”. Nazi sympathisers may have helped propel the architects of apartheid to power, but letters between Jewish Israeli and white South African leaders, quoted in “The Unspoken Alliance”, illustrate a shared conviction: here were two small nations surrounded by hostile hordes, fighting for their land and identity, standing as bulwarks against Soviet empire-building.”

“This is a deft, pacy and revealing account, and for the most part, admirably dispassionate. It strays into polemic only in the epilogue, where the author warns that Israel may face South Africa’s fate if it does not mend its behaviour towards the Palestinians. Judging by their fury at Mr Goldstone, Israeli officials know this all too well—but still think they can bluster their way out.”

Amazing how the Economist can market itself as an objective observer in the Middle East debate, when it produces this kind of drivel … especially the lovely, and entirely gratuitous, reference to the Nazis – yet another clumsy attempt to taint Israel with the “Nazi” brush.

http://cifwatch.com/2010/01/30/we-loved-your-comment/

I think you should read this. It fits you very well.

Incidentally I have some knowledge regarding the 1979 nuclear test, and it almost certainly didn’t happen. In all likelihood there was a malfunction in the US satellite or it picked up a random flash of radiation from space.

“In a period of less than 24 hours, between the evening of May 23 and the afternoon of May 24, The Guardian published eleven articles about Israel. All except one dealt with Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons arsenal.”

Little doubt then that this is a concerted attempt by the Guardian to whip up anti-Israel hysteria. Just when you thought they could sink no lower, they prove you wrong.