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Obama placating Israel on nuclear weapons issue

Obama administration: Israel has right to nuclear capability for deterrence purposes – Haaretz Daily, 5 July, 2010, NEW YORK – The Obama administration has revealed to the public, during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, a series of understandings between the two countries on Israel’s policy of “nuclear ambiguity” – which to date had been kept under wraps
At the center of these understandings lies an Israeli veto on the holding of an international conference for a nuclear-free Middle East, as well as an unprecedented American willingness to cooperate with Israel in the field of nuclear power for civil use.
The revelations come in the wake of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference held in May, which called on Israel to agree to international inspection of its nuclear installations, and to the holding of an international conference for a nuclear-free Middle East. The conference’s final document was passed despite Israel’s strong protests to the Americans.

In talks since the conference, the Americans made it clear that that decision had been a “mistake.”…………………

prior to departing for New York, Netanyahu met with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and presented him with Israel’s security needs as part of a permanent agreement for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Obama administration: Israel has right to nuclear capability for deterrence purposes – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

July 8, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear technology, nuclear weapons