"Israel tried to sell nuclear weapons to Apartheid South Africa"

Ehmmmm No Christmas Israel and South Africa were co-operating on the development of a nuclear weapon for South Africa - in the end South Africa built six bombs which were dismantled in 1989 two years before South Africa the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Once again Christmas grabs hold of a newspaper article and waves it like a flag as though it and it alone proved proof positive:

"In 2010, The Guardian released South African government documents that it alleged confirmed the existence of an Israeli offer to sell South Africa nuclear weapons in 1975. An allegation which Israel categorically denied at the time - the documents themselves do not indicate any offer for a sale of nuclear weapons. Israeli President Shimon Peres said that The Guardian article was based on "selective interpretation... and not on concrete facts." - much like Jim's take on things. Avner Cohen, author of Israel and the Bomb and the forthcoming The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb, said "Nothing in the documents suggests there was an actual offer by Israel to sell nuclear weapons to the regime in Pretoria."