US ‘silent on Israeli nuclear arms’
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Barack Obama, the US president, has agreed to abide by a 40-year policy of allowing Israel to keep nuclear weapons without opening them to international inspection, according to a US newspaper. In a report on Saturday, The Washington Times quoted three unnamed sources as saying Obama had confirmed to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, that he would maintain the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The incident reportedly occurred when the two met at the White House in Washington DC in May. Neither Israel’s embassy in Washington, nor the White House National Security Council would comment on the claim. Avner Cohen, an Israeli expert and author, was quoted by the paper as saying that under the deal “the United States passively [accepts] Israel’s nuclear weapons status as long as Israel does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon”. There is no official accounting of the deal, supposedly agreed in 1969 between Richard Nixon, then US president, and Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister at the time. ‘Strategic understandings’ In an interview last week with Israel’s Channel 2 media company, Netanyahu spoke of his confidence that Obama’s recent remarks on a world free of nuclear weapons would not apply to Israel. “It was utterly clear from the context of the speech that he was speaking about North Korea and Iran,” the Israeli leader said. “But I want to remind you that in my first meeting with President Obama in Washington I received from him … an itemised list of the strategic understandings that have existed for many years between Israel and the United States on that issue. “It was not for naught that I requested, and it was not for naught that I received [that document].” Although there is no formal record of the understanding – nor have Israeli nor American governments ever publicly acknowledged it – some documents hint at an agreement between the two nations. In 2007, the Nixon library declassified a July 19, 1969, memo from Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser, that comes closest to articulating US policy on the issue. That memo says “while we might ideally like to halt actual Israeli possession, what we really want at a minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established international fact”. |
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In my opinion, I think tis is a good thing, One tat we have that kind of alliance with Isreal, which would make it very easy to protect even ourselves from North Korea and Iran, as well as Isreal protecting themselves from them, because Isreal is a nation that has a long history of being attacked and not having enough or adequate artillary or a weapon that could be a large deterant from attack. As well, Isreal, like the US would conside this a last resort.
I also think tis may be a way for te US to hold more than allowed, using Isreal as a place of hidden storage, which is also a good thing (Total speculation, and my opinion, does not reflect any known facts or the opinion of others)
Why would the biggest superpower need help from Israel? Israel has done nothing but terrorize their neighbors and are the biggest human rights abusers. No country needs protection from Iran or North Korea, They need protection from the zionist who have already threaten to use nuclear weapons on civilians.
Stop talking about a attack. Iran is not the aggressor. Name a conflict the U.S. has been in that started with America being attacked? Never happen, never will.