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Netanyahu implicated in nuclear smuggling from U.S. — big story in Israel

The Israeli press is picking up Grant Smith’s revelation from FBI documents that Benjamin Netanyahu was part of an Israeli smuggling ring that spirited nuclear triggers out of the U.S. in the 80s and 90s.

Arutz Sheva, the nationalist Israeli press:

Declassified FBI documents from a 1985-2002 investigation implicate Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in an initiative to illegally purchase United States nuclear technology for Israel’s nuclear program.

Netanyahu was allegedly helped by Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer with ties to Israeli prime ministers and U.S. presidents.

The original story was broken by Grant Smith at antiwar.com, “Netanyahu worked inside nuclear smuggling ring”:

On June 27, 2012, the FBI partially declassified and released seven additional pages [.pdf] from a 1985–2002 investigation into how a network of front companies connected to the Israeli Ministry of Defense illegally smuggled nuclear triggers out of the U.S.* The newly released FBI files detail how Richard Kelly Smyth — who was convicted of running a U.S. front company — met with Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel during the smuggling operation. At that time, Netanyahu worked at the Israeli node of the smuggling network, Heli Trading Company. Netanyahu, who currently serves as Israel’s prime minister, recently issued a gag order that the smuggling network’s unindicted ringleader refrain from discussing “Project Pinto.”

The Hebrew paper Ma’ariv, in translation:

According to FBI documents released by the United States, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was involved in smuggling in the 70s from the U.S. components of Israeli nuclear program, and assisted by the businessman Arnon Milchan, who according to previous publications was a former Mossad agent.

The documents, declassified in part by the FBI after partial classification removed, describe the findings of the investigation has been performed between the years 1985 to 2002 on about how a network of front companies a U.S. security firm illegally smuggled equipment used for weapons seeds out of the U.S..

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fantastic

Oh my! Looks like some of the silenced patriots within the FBI are finally getting to do some unveiling.

It all goes to show that as resentment builds and is suppressed, the dam will eventually break.

Stay tuned folks – the show is just about to begin. Stock up on popcorn, we’ll be here for a while!

From Wikipedia:

An apocalypse (Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apocálypsis, meaning ‘un-covering’) is a revelation of something hidden. In religious contexts it is usually a revelation of hidden meaning – hidden from mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception.

The apocalypse is upon us. 2012 will be a year to remember.

Time to indict and demand he be turned over to US custody to stand trial and, if found guilty, to go to prison.

Look, Israel murdered a bunch of US military personnel and nearly sunk their ship at a time when there was a hint of diversity in US official opinion re the US’ relations with that pirate nation. Johnson actually had to ignore or threaten countervailing and discordant voices to quash the investigation.

Now, with a harmonized choir of castrati at the helm, how likely is it that anyone will be distressed Netanyahu’s decades-old treachery?

I don’t know how to relate to the conviction held by so many of the site’s regulars that we’re at a turning point vis a vis US/Israel relations. Sometimes I’m heartened by the positivity, sometimes it seems naive.

If this story picks up one tiny particle of traction in the mainstream US press, and if it eventuates in even a burble of official action (from, you know, a government which acknowledges without shame its inconsistent standards re Israel and everyone else), I’ll fold my cynicism t-shirt neatly and put in on the back shelf.