every one knows Israel has nuclear weapons .?

Question

if the un wants the middle east empth of weapons of M.D they should start with israel then,why wont they, israel has all the right to protect it self i know but who will protect the others in the middle east from them , i know they never claimed to use it ,why carry it then ,dont u think it will make all the other countries in the area want that protectoin as well .

Answer 1

Israel is surrounded by enemies and needs a deterent, if they were suspected of aiding terrorist orginazations then yes they would be disarmed, but they arent, they have no need to use Nukes, Iran however has connections to terrorists, and would benifit from giving them to organizations like hezbollah.

Answer 2

Depends on what information you read and what sources you believe...............

One source : Israel has never admitted possessing nuclear weapons, but abundant information is available showing that the capability exists.

Source #2:The library of declassified documents from the Manhattan Project bestowed on Iraq in 1956 proved useful 15 years later in giving Iraq's nascent nuclear weapons program a good start. In 1962 construction began on Iraq's first research reactor - the 2 megawatt IRT-5000 supplied the Soviet Union. It went critical in 1967, and was later upgraded to 5 MW in 1978 ([Barnaby 1993; pg. 87], International Nuclear Safety Center).

Saddam Hussein did not pussy-foot around about his intentions. Just before flying to France to close the Osirak deal in September 1975, he gave an interview to a leading Arabic language newsmagazine from Beirut in which he declared that his country was engaged in "the first Arab attempt at nuclear arming" [Burrows and Windrem 1994; pg. 37]. Further he argued that Iraq should be helped to develop nuclear weapons to balance the Israeli arsenal [Hamza and Stein 2000; pg. 105].

Answer 3

if my country was surrounded by enemies who had repeatedly vowed destruction and been attacked repeatedly from the beginning, i'd want a nuclear deterrence, also...funny how no nation has dared to launch another full-scale war against israel since they got nukes... (edit) someone once said that 'fair' was a place where they sell cotton candy-the #1 responsibility of any government is to protect its citizens

Answer 4

Israel is 1 small country surrounded by many much larger countries whose principal motivation is Israel's destruction. They need the nukes. They probably had them long before the NPT & are not a signatory to that treaty. As a soverign state, that is their right. No other country in the ME is in such a precarious position.

Answer 5

As Zionists in Palestine watched World War II from their distant sideshow, what lessons were learned? The soldiers of the Empire of Japan vowed on their emperor's sacred throne to fight to the death and not face the inevitability of an American victory. Many Jews wondered if the Arabs would try to push them into the Mediterranean Sea. After the devastating American nuclear attack on Japan, the soldier leaders of the empire reevaluated their fight to the death position. Did the bomb give the Japanese permission to surrender and live? It obviously played a military role, a political role, and a peacemaking role. How close was the mindset of the Samurai culture to the Islamic culture?

Never Again!

- Reportedly welded on the
first Israeli nuclear bomb

Israel went on full-scale nuclear alert again on the first day of Desert Storm, 18 January 1991. Seven SCUD missiles were fired against the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa by Iraq (only two actually hit Tel Aviv and one hit Haifa). This alert lasted for the duration of the war, 43 days. Over the course of the war, Iraq launched around 40 missiles in 17 separate attacks at Israel. Threats of retaliation by the Shamir government if the Iraqis used chemical warheads were interpreted to mean that Israel intended to launch a nuclear strike if gas attacks occurred. Shortly before the end of the war the Israelis tested a “nuclear capable” missile which prompted the United States into intensifying its SCUD hunting in western Iraq to prevent any Israeli response.[

All of this validated the nuclear arsenal in the minds of the Israelis. In particular the confirmed capability of Arab states without a border with Israel, the so-called “second tier” states, to reach out and touch Israel with ballistic missiles confirmed Israel's need for a robust first strike capability. Israel must be in a position to threaten another Hiroshima to prevent another holocaust.

One list of current reasons for an Israeli nuclear capability is:

-To deter a large conventional attack,
-To deter all levels of unconventional (chemical, biological, nuclear) attacks,
-To preempt enemy nuclear attacks,
-To support conventional preemption against enemy nuclear assets,
-To support conventional preemption against enemy non-nuclear (conventional, chemical, biological) assets,
For nuclear warfighting,
-The “Samson Option” (last resort destruction)

If you were a country who lived among those arab states..you'd have to have a nuclear arsenal.

Answer 6

Israel is a peaceful country surrounded with blood thirsty terrorist. THey have have had nukes for years and have never used them. They are just there in case they need to protect themselves. They have suffered heavily from the Muslims and still have never used them, even while their children are bombed on school buses.

The other countries of the region do need protection from each other. Muslims seem to kill each other too, not just Jews and Christians, but they would not use them for "protection". They are aggressive, not protective.

Answer 7

."..others need protection?" Oh,please. "The Arabs invaded the Jewish state the day after it was established, but the Israelis defeated them. The Arabs still did not accept Israel, and pledged to destroy it."* I figure this information--along with Iran's Amadinajead's recent sound clip swearing to Israel's destruction--don't fit into preconceived beliefs.

Answer 8

the other ones are nuts Israel has them so they won't have to use them. Just the threat keeps Iran and Syria away the cowards hide behind women and children when they shoot then blame the Israelites for killing the ones they hide behind. I will take the people of Isreal as my friends over the other countries who want them gone any day of the week.

Answer 9

I agree that they have them, but do not admit to it.

Why do you think the others need protection ?
If the others would stop lobbing rockets and kidnapping, Israel would not invade/assinate. They carry it for deterrent. Same as India/Pakistan.
Yes I think the other coutries in the ME also want them.

Answer 10

Actually, Saudia Arabia has been trying to get them & might have a couple. Same goes for Syria and Iran.