Posted on 03/26/2015 2:17:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
? I wasn’t disagreeing with you.
Because you cannot act against Israel’s nuclear weapons to ban them or subject Israel to international inspections unless they exist. The U.S. policy was to keep it an understanding rather than a confirmed fact. Obama is putting it out there as a set up for the next phase of what will become a confrontation. It will also be used as a justification for Islamic nations to possess nukes.
Do you think Netanyahu and Israel would sic Mossad on Obama in retaliation to Obama opening up this document to the public? You gotta believe Mossad has secret sauce information on Obama that the American people aren't privy to. Or will he take the high road instead?
Thanks.
“I found the document in question.
There is _one_ page which vaguely indicates that Israel is/was doing some pretty good & serious research on the subject. Nothing indicates that Israel _has_ nuclear weapons, just that they were learning some of the advanced principles of how to make them.”
That’s right. The document was never classified. This dog has no bite. The earliest reference I saw on this came from rt.com.
This is about Grant Smith, director of “Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Inc.” who filed a FOIA request for the report and then went to the courts. The report was never classified. He wants to show that the US knew of Israel’s nuclear program in 1987, and thus violated an amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act.
The reporting on this has been absurd.
Read about it here: http://www.irmep.org/
Yes, near as ii can tell. No sign of any other relevant document.
A lot of would-be friends of Israel don’t do Israel much favor with hysteria. What the White House did was publicly confirm in diplomat-speak that Israel has nukes. A proverbial ‘breach of protocol’ and breaking past agreements, but hardly any kind of disaster.
I’m hearing a lot _about_ the revelation, but don’t see any _actual_ revelation. The mere existence of a 25-year-old unclassified document with one page saying a high-tech country had a lab doing nuclear weapons research doesn’t mean much, especially as I can’t find anything even “revealing” it.
I get your point on diplo-speak. I’m just not even seeing anything documenting any recent reference to this document, much less a formal declassification of what was already declassified. Something’s not adding up to what’s being alleged.
It was a FOIA deal. Documents not previously made public but also not secret might be the case. Maybe the doc had to be reviewed for secret information, leading to the ‘secret doc’ exaggeration.
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