Oh Please. What is GOING ON? We Can']t Trust Israel Anymore Either?

Question

Reuters) -
In developing its nuclear program. Iran is using strategies that allowed its enemy Israel to assemble the Middle East's only atomic arsenal without admitting it had one, according to a leading expert on the Israeli program. " Whether deliberately or inadvertently, there are elements of resemblance between the way Iran is pursuing its nuclear program today and the way Israel was pursuing its own program in the 1960s," Avner Cohen, author of a landmark study entitled "Israel and the Bomb," Whether deliberately or inadvertently, there are elements of resemblance between the way Iran is pursuing its nuclear program today and the way Israel was pursuing its own program in the 1960s," Avner Cohen, author of a landmark study entitled "Israel and the Bomb,"
This is a great irony of history but Iranian policymakers and nuclear technocrats may be strategically mimicking
the Israeli model

The elements the Israeli and Iranian nuclear programs have in common are secrecy, concealment, ambiguity, double talk and denial.

Iran's probable strategy, he says, is to create the perception of having a secret weapons program, or being close to it, without actually testing a bomb or declaring its possession or impending possessionThat echoes the Israeli program, which began in the late 1950s at the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev Desert. Since then, Israel has declined to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons, saying only it would not be the first to "introduce" them into the Middle East.

Over the decades, Israel's attitude has been "let the world guess"
U.S. intelligence czar John Negroponte said in February that Iran was 10 years away from a bomb but later talked about "the beginning of the next decade perhaps to the middle of the next decade" - four to ten years.

He adds; "Iran is ... a hard (intelligence) target. They engage in denial and deception. They don't want us necessarily to know everything that they are doing. So we don't, for example, know whether there is a secret military program and to what extent that program has made progress..and so we don't really know what is going on do we?
because Israel IS supposed to be our friend. But I don't think we know who to trust. Not with an angry Middle East waiting...waiting. And Israel waiting also.
with the same type of behavior re nuclear weapons or capabilities
as Iran is accused of
secrecy
concealment
ambiguity
double talk
denial

Who inspects Israel?
Has she ever been inspected?
Is she ahead of the United States?

God help us all....

Answer 1

It's an open secret that Israel has had nuclear weapons for many years with out any interference fron the USA or UN
But the main difference between Iran and Israel is that Iran has not attacked another nation for over 200 years whereas we all know how Israel likes to solve its problems with violence.

Answer 2

OP, you are able to in all probability have confidence your mom. different than that, you would be served nicely with the help of trusting unquestionably no person else. Israel isn't the rustic it grow to be in 1948, and its friends are a parliament of whores. the adaptation between Iran and Israel of the 1950's is that if the competition had gained in Israel, there could have been a metamorphosis. Iran is a Chavez style democracy, there will be elections however the powers that be will win. In Iran, the mullahs only do not enable a workable opposition candidate to run, and in the event that they do, oddly adequate, the polling only before the vote isn't precise.

Answer 3

Actually the primary reason Israel "gets away" with its nuclear weapons capability is not based on denial, secrecy etc. in the legal sense.

There weapons, at least until the mid 1990's were never fully assembled. The technical term escapes me at the moment (it is bi-something) but basically it boils down to they have not placed the radioactive core into the high explosive circular firing warhead. So they have explosive conventional warheads in one room and the potentially nuclear capable unit in another room.

Legally they have no nuclear weapons.

And please, I have had too many discussions on this subject and have heard all the ...oh, they can't do that, that's just not right and the yes they do arguments. It the international legal sense they don't. It also helps that they have never been know to have tested one of their weapons...the ones they don't have.

And NO, this isn't classified information. I actually read the non-disclosures documents I signed!

Answer 4

Even the US developed the first nuclear bomb under a cloak of secrecy. What country on the planet has developed one in open world view?
I agree, it is scary to think that Iran would be emulating Israels methods, but the bigger concern would be that Ahmadinajad is smart enough to do even that, and a lot of Americans can't see the threat that that poses to the planet.

Answer 5

If I were Jewish and living in a Jewish country literally surrounded by countries that publicly declare that I don't have a right to exist, the Holocaust never happened, I should be annihilated - and then blow up innocent men, women and children on an almost daily basis and follow up by lobbing rockets into my cities - I, too, would have nuclear weapons. And I would get them any possible way I could - and I would make it perfectly clear to my "neighbors" that I have them.

I think history has shown us that Israel is true to their word, that they won't be the first to introduce them. Unfortunately, I don't think the same can be said of her neighbors.

Answer 6

I assumed 20 years ago that Israel has nukes. But I'm also sure that they won't use them first. I am NOT sure about Iran's intentions. Israel has never ignited a war. She has always been attacked first. Can Iran say the same thing?

Answer 7

Israel is our only ally in the Middle East. If Iran builds atomic weapon or Bin Laden gets them, it will be up to Israel to take them out.

Answer 8

Maybe Israel has done the "turn the other cheek"
Maybe Israel has found It's ally wanting
Maybe Israel has waited long enough for God's help
Could be to survive as a nation they are helping themselves

Answer 9

Israel is being awarded & protected by USA
this is the reason UN & IAEA is still failed to
unearth the Israel's nuclear programme

Answer 10

Who do you think gave israel the technology?

WE did.