Was Kennedy anti-semitic?
Israel should have the means to defend itself from the Islamic neighbors that surround it. I’m assuming that the Israelis were worried that it’s neighbors who had dealings with the Soviet Union would ask the Soviets for assistance, if not being an outright supplier, of a nuclear weapon for the purpose of “eradicating the Zionist scum”.
Just a thought.
JFK was against nuclear proliferation for any nation.
He repeated this over and over—was super clear about it.
No need to overthink it.
As I recall one book said that it was noticed under the Eisenhower administration and they just chose to ignore it (when Dimona construction was starting in the 1950s).
It also noted that JFK was not happy about it when he found out. It’s been over 30 years since I read that.
It’s been a long time since I read that book but that’s what I seem to recall.
Kennedy wasn’t anti-semitic, and it isn’t anti-semitic to not want nuclear weapons to proliferate, even to friends.
The anti-semitism lurking here in the “just asking questions” crowd’s playing with the idea that that jews were pulling strings in Kennedy’s assassination because he was going to interfere with their nuclear ambitions.
2/2/2025
USAid website offline as Trump puts
foreign aid agency under state Dept
Criminy, things in the Middle East things could get dicey. This region hasn’t been especially kind to the US or its presidents. The Washington foreign policy establishment has an ingrained belief in its own brilliance and a willingness to succumb to hubris about the extent of its power and influence. The Middle East has a tried and true formula to get foreign aid tax dollars.....uttering the word “peace” at regular intervals.
“Peace” in the Middle East has been a pipe dream for about a thousand years........there’s a
huge price tag on “peace,” with the US taxpayer gamely trying to meet the latest “peace price.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “Can you top this?”
<><>During the 2024 election year, Biden blanketed Israel w/ $17.9 billion peace-keeping tax dollars in that one year alone, saying, “Nobody has done more for Israeli peace than I have.”
Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax dollars in
peace-filled MILITARY assistance alone, including “three special aid” peace packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s peaceful withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for peaceful redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>$5 billion tax dollars “rebuilding Israeli air bases” in the Negev.
<><>the Negev is where Israel builds its peaceful nuclear weapons
Besides peace-making weaponry, Israel also receives peace-keeping economic and humanitarian foreign aid, which supports broad peaceful economic development and socio-political stability and can include peaceable non-military support related to the country’s pressing peace needs.
Given the known train of Jewish nuclear scientists to Israel from a number of countries in the early to mid-’50s, and given known French government nuke cooperation with Israel since ‘56, halting Israeli nukes in the early ‘60s was just a fantasy.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/background-and-overview-of-israel-s-nuclear-arsenal