Final_Judgment

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that "the Chinese insisted on absolute secrecy . . . [but that] secrecy was no
problem for Eisenberg." 1042
It appears that Israel had already calculated that it simply could not
open up direct diplomatic relations and business deals with Red China until—
at first—the United States had already opened the door. In 1969, Yigal
Allon, then Israel's deputy prime minister, had said publicly, "Perhaps,
when a positive change occurs in the relations between the USA and China,
some sort of change will occur in the Chinese attitude toward us." 1043 Thus,
after Richard Nixon, as U.S. president, did open the door to Red China,
Israel's maneuvering began and Eisenberg launched on the secret "official"
deals that ultimately became part of the public record.
In fact, it was only well after Eisenberg's secret (but really not so
secret) arrangement of the first arms sales to China was set in motion in
1979 that the major media in the West began reporting (without comment)
at the revelations of Israel's arms deals with Red China—the giant Asian
colossus that we had otherwise been told was hostile to tiny Israel.
THE TRUTH EMERGES
The first notation of an important arms relationship between China and
Israel came in the staid and little-read (but highly influential) British
journal, Jane's Defense Weekly, in November of 1980 1044 —five years
after Eisenberg's "official" entree into dealings with China on behalf of Israel.
While Jane's estimated that the Israeli arms trade with China might be as
high as $3 billion, Israel's annual arms exports were approximately $4
billion 1045 at that time, which means that fully 75% of Israel's arms exports
were headed for China, clearly its best customer.
It was some three months later that the general public heard mainstream
media reports about Jane's revelations of the Israeli-Red Chinese arms
deals. On January 24, 1985, for example, the Washington Times reported
that "Israel is believed to have about 200 military advisers in China and to
be filling arms orders from Peking worth more than $1 billion." 1046
The Times reported that a Chinese Embassy spokesman said that his
government was not buying arms from Israel; at the same time an Israeli
Embassy spokesman in Washington said he could "neither confirm nor
deny" 1047 the reports about joint Chinese and Israeli arms transfers.
Thus, after nearly forty years of covert dealings between the Mossad and
the Chinese intelligence service that had never been reported in the press,
the Western media began to advise its readers that—lo and behold—Israel
had been selling billions of arms to China since the deal was first set in place
by Shaul Eisenberg in 1979.
However, the secret relationship, as we've seen, was one which seems
to have been cemented firmly by about 1963—probably on November 22
when John F. Kennedy's plans for a military attack on Red China's nuclear