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Israel Should Acknowledge Its Own Nuclear Program

Instead of focusing solely on Iran, the international community should examine Israel's purported nuclear arsenal and its refusal to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
View of the Israeli nuclear facility in the Negev Dest outside Dimona August 6, 2000. Mordechai Vanunu, a former nuclear technical, spilled Israel's nuclear secrets to a British newspaper in 1986 and a short while later was abducted to Israel to stand trial. He is currently in the 13th year of an 18-year jail term. Vanunu claimed Israel had built 200 atomic bombs at the Dimona site. Today, August 6, is the 55th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan where some 200,000 people were killed, le

Last night, Oct. 2, I watched the Charlie Rose interview with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the interview, at least five times Netanyahu repeated his description of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Then he added that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the “wolf in wolf’s clothing.” Thus concluding that both are wolves!

During his interview he elaborated on his speech at the UN General Assembly, hoping that repeating his arrogant diktats would be more persuasive. Apparently, it doesn’t look like he succeeded.

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