How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands war

A Declassified UK report states that support included Nasher and Skyhawk fighter aircraft, some of which were transferred through Peru, which were used to sink British ships

By Germán Padinger (CNN Español) – A cold, resource-rich archipelago of 11,718 square kilometers in the South Atlantic, located about 600 kilometers off the coast of Argentina, has been at the center of a conflict whose origins date back 500 years. The Malvinas Islands (as they are known in Argentina) or Falklands (as they are known in the United Kingdom) are also at the center of a formal sovereignty dispute between Buenos Aires and London that…

How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands war

Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands – a British territory in the South Atlantic – 43 years ago today.  UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher responded by dispatching a naval taskforce to retake the territory, pinning her political career on military success some 8,000 miles from London. The conflict lasted for 74 days and cost the lives of over 900 people, with Thatcher scoring her highest ever public approval rating shortly after the Ar…

(By: Rubén Lasagno) – Every April 2nd the Falklands War is remembered with great emotion, the 700 combatants, martyrs of a cause that military and politicians declared lost and eluded utopias of a “recovery” of the islands that were lost, not only in that April 1982, but long before the drunken General inflated the chest of the Argentines one morning, with a military sounding without prior planning, without preparation or sufficient armaments to…

Today, April 2, the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands War, a conflict that left an indelible mark in Argentine history. The decision to confront the United Kingdom militarily in 1982 was, in retrospect, suicidal madness, driven by a military government desperate to legitimize itself in power. ...

The Falklands war, at that time, resulted in an international crisis of unprecedented proportions where powers like the United States and Britain were involved. The recovery of...