BBC Newsnight has broken a
blockbuster story, which has yet to be reported by the American corporate media: During the 60's, Britain made
hundreds of secret shipments of plutonium, uranium 235, and heavy water to Israel which helped Israel to start up its nuclear weapons plant at Dimona. All sorts of details have come out; I'll simply refer the reader to the BBC link above rather than repeat any of them here.
An extremely interesting interview with former British MP (50+ years in Parliament) Tony Benn, who happened to be Energy Minister at the time and knew nothing about this, was broadcast on Democracy Now! this morning, covering this and many other topics. You can listen to the broadcast or read the transcript here or read some excerpts here.
Reprinted from Left I on the News