Democratic Palestine : 3 (ص 55)
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corps; self-propelled 105 mm. howit-
zers; air-to-air rockets; anti-tank mis-
siles; assault rifles; radar bases; and
surveillance equipment.'*? Reshefs and
Galils are produced under license in
South Africa." In May 1971 the Israelis
offered to replace three crashed South
African warplanes.'*
Between 1970 and 1979, 45 percent of
Israeli arms exports were naval ships of
which South Africa purchased 35 per-
cent.' In the same period South Africa
purchased 35 percent of all Israel’s arms
sales.'*© As explained earlier, South
Africa provided capital to develop new
Israeli warships. One $500 million con-
tract provided South Africa with six
Israeli corvettes equipped with surface
to surface missiles.'*’ In 1977 South
Africa purchased 108 Gabriel | and Il
missiles and in 1979 72 more.'*® Israel
modernized 150 British manufactured
South African Centurion tanks after the
British refused to do so.
Israel has also sent Kfirs and rebuilt
Mirages to South Africa. '*9 South African
helicopter squadrons were equipped
with Israeli night visibility equipment,'*°
and Israeli engineers have _ helped,
according to the Economist, «develop a
sensitive surveillance system using
highly sophisticated electronic detection
equipment along South Africa's border,
aimed at detecting guerilla attacks.» '*'
Many such items are supplied by Israeli
subsidiaries of US firms such as General
Telephone & Electric Motorola, and
Control Data.'*? South Africa is also
developing an export arrns industry and
hopes to market its arms through its
close Israeli and Taiwanese
partners. '* On May 30, 1983, a
South African remotely piloted spy plane
was shot down over Moputo, the capital
Mozambique. Its engine bore the
inscription «IAl P/N ZVN 161003» and a
date of manufacture of January 25,
1981. IAI, of course, is Israel Aircraft
Industries.’
In return, according to the
Economist South Africa has financed
«some of Israel’s costlier military pro-
jects». South Africa supplied the Israelis
with a special steel it needed for its tanks
and helped the Israelis modernize its
outmoded steel industry.'*° South Africa
also. supplies the Israelis with
uranium. ‘#6
Regarding part 2, on September 22,
1979 Israel and South Africa exploded
their jointly developed atomic bomb in
the South Atlantic near the South African
coast.'47 Jack Anderson reported in
1980 that Israel, South Africa, and
Taiwan were about to begin producing
cruise missiles with a 1,500-mile
range.'* Anderson also said that in
1975 the Israelis fired on an American
spy plane too close to their nuclear
facilities. In 1979 US Ambassador to
South Africa, William Edmondson, was
expelled when a hidden camera was dis-
covered under his private plane.**? The
CIA told the House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee in a secret session in June 1981
that Israel was believed to have ten to
twenty nuclear weapons deliverable
either by fighter bombers or Jericho mis-
siles.15° Jack Anderson, however,
reported an Israeli stockpile of two
hundred or more nuclear bombs capa-
ble of being delivered «deep inside the
Soviet Union».'>"
As to counterinsurgency, the third
part of the Israeli/South African agree-
ment, in early 1975 Henry Kissinger
asked the Israeli government «to send
troops to Angola in order to cooperate
with the South African army» in fighting
the MPLA, ~ according to the
Economist.'** The Israelis did send
advisers and Savimbi’s UNITA in Walvis
Bay Namibia.’ In 1979 Israel Aircraft
Industries built an electrified fence on
the border between Angola and Namibia
to thwart SWAPO guerillas.‘ Former
Defense Minister Sharon spent ten days
in South Africa in December 1981 and
visited «operational areas in Namibia»
during large scale South African attacks
into Angola, according to the New York
Times.'°°
South Africa has designated 14 per-
cent of its territory for African Bantustans
or «homelands». No country in the
world, including Israel, recognizes the - هو جزء من
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