[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What say you?

[hlmencken3]

Or maybe Israel just reserves the right to share nuclear technology with its allies should Israel be existentially threatened. Same reason Israel might have submarines to guaranty a retaliatory ability. Keeps them guessing.

[faithhopecharity]

Not a chance (BS flag goes here: ). . Not so long as Israel is threatened by insane rabid islamoNazis who are 100 times as numerous and who rule 100 times as much land. It’s tough, very tough being peaceful and “good neighborly” when you’re surrounded by the dregs of Satan’s Legions Hellbent on destroying you. The issue is Iran, not Israel. We need to fix what jimmy Carter broke in Iran. Asap.

[alexander_busek]

The NPT was signed in 1968 and became affective effective in 1970.

A "fail" right in the first sentence.

Regards,

[cripplecreek]

It is awfully odd that the nuke eliminating left wants the one nation threatening to erase Israel to have a nuke.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What is a possible counter-point to H.) and a counter to the counter-point in post #7?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Interesting enough, in the apocalyptic chapters in Isaiah 24-29, Isaiah predicted that liberals would rise up in Israel and make a covenant similar to a “nuclear free” or “non-proliferation” agreement to guarantee their safety, but in the end it will be a "covenant with death"! Thankfully, the Lord intervenes...

Isaiah 28:14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. 15 Because ye have said , We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste . 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled , and your agreement with hell shall not stand ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through , then ye shall be trodden down by it.

[Sparticus]

I. Why do some people insist that Israel commit national suicide? In the world we live in, where Israel is encompassed on every side by implacable enemies who demand her destruction, that’s what signing the NPT would require. The NPT requires that all nuclear armed signatories negotiate in good faith to disarm. This Israel cannot do.

[PoloSec]

I think it will "pave the way" for Israel to do as BiBi said; deal with their enemy,  (reading between the lines)  engage in a final solution, with or without the U.S.!

When will it happen; I suspect soon after obama signs his deal with Iran to surrender the entirety of Western Civilization.

[rmlew]

Israel was a country surrounded by enemies, which tried to destroy on multiple occasions. Their nuclear weapons were not only a threat to their neighbors, but to the Soviets, who wanted to destroy Israel. In 1973, when the final Soviet attempt at a Final Solution using Arab proxies failed, the Soviets threatened to directly invade Israel. Israel threatened to nuke the Soviet fleet in Crimea, and the USSR responded by threatening to nuke Israel preemptively.
Moreover, Egypt had used weapons of mass destruction (chemical weapons) in its war in Yemen. Israel had every reason to have nukes and not sign a suicide pact even before Iran went Islamist