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.
1.) We don’t know definitively if Israel has nuclear weapons but I wouldn’t doubt it is in the high 90’s percent chance that they do have them.
2.) Signing the NPT would require that Israel be inspected for the aforementioned.
Israel would most likely say that they have no secret nuclear weapons program that would require inspections, and Iran would say the same thing -— and around and around we go...
In the end, people getting worked up over a discussion over the NPT, Israel and Iran (and I am not saying you are but some are) won’t make this discussion go away. That genie was let out of the bottle yesterday.
The NPT will either stand strong or it will potentially be seen as a hollow man.