On Tuesday, Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak acknowledged that Israel has nuclear weapons in a now-deleted tweet about concerns over the current Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plans.
Barak wrote: “In conversations between Israelis and Western diplomatic officials, there are deep concerns raised of the possibility that if the coup in Israel succeeds, a messianic dictatorship — that possesses nuclear weapons and fanatically wishes for a confrontation with Islam centered on the Temple Mount — will be established in the heart of the Middle East.”
Israel’s nuclear arsenal is an open secret, but Israeli officials and their US counterparts do not acknowledge its existence. Because Israel does not declare its arsenal, it’s not clear how many warheads they possess. Current estimates put the arsenal somewhere between 90 and 300 warheads, but the real number could be higher.
The US and Israel have long had an understanding concerning Israel’s nukes, which were first developed in the late 1960s. Every US president since Richard Nixon agreed not to press Israel to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in exchange for Israel not declaring its stockpile.
The arrangement allows the US to keep providing aid to Israel even though doing so is technically illegal. Under an amendment to the Arms Export Control Act, the US cannot provide aid to nuclear-armed states that refuse to sign the NPT.
State Department spokesman Ned Price was recently grilled on the issue by journalist Sam Husseini. When pressed about potential violations of the Arms Control Export Act and the State Department’s refusal to acknowledge Israel’s nuclear weapons program, Price referred Husseini to the Israeli government.
Is he senile (Barak)?
It’s been shown in new studies, it’s contagious. Look at Blinken.
EVERYONE knows they have nukes, right?….
Well, duh.
As an American, I’ll be so disappointed if the world is ended by Israel over biblical nonsense. I mean sure, we enabled their eschaton, but squeaking past confrontation with Russia only to have everything lit up over 5000 year old beef without us pulling the trigger would be really shitty.
Chances are that is exactly how the world would end.
And genocidal Zionist MAGAbots wet their pants at this revelation. Blinken and Biden think Israel was always a true democracy that has been recently hijacked. Hypocrites
Years ago an Israeli named Modecai Vanunu revealed to the world the nuclear arsenal of Israel. Not new news. Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
Ehud Barak Obama admits Israel has nukes. He should now admit the failure of his peace talks with Arafat was Barak’s fault. He refused to give up East Jerusalem which is the Arab section of the city.
And Arafat told his people to the effect-we will take what we can get now,and take the rest later. An Israeli corridor to the Western wal lwould have sufficed.
Why would a “corridor” through an international city not ruled by any single state (per UNR 181) be necessary?
It was no “failure”: it was intentional. Remember that the only honest broker in those Madrid-Oslo negotiations, Rabin, was murdered. And then Arafat was also murdered per all credible accounts. The goal was to deactivate Palestinian resistance and to establish a consolidated Apartheid regime with its own bantustan under a “native” dictatorship.