Finally, Somebody Says the Emperor is Naked: US Assistant Secretary of State, Rose Gottemoeller, Admits Israel Has Nuclear Weapons

Finally, Somebody Says the Emperor is Naked:

US Assistant Secretary of State, Rose Gottemoeller, Admits Israel Has Nuclear Weapons

Obama official admits Israel has nuclear weapons

Friday May 08, 2009 04:57 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News

An Obama administration official has provoked the anger of the Israeli government by implying that Israel has nuclear weapons.

One of Vanunu's pictures of Israeli nulcear weapons

While the US has never admitted that its ally Israel has nuclear weapons, the last Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted last year to the existence of the arsenal.

Anti-nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu spent eighteen years in Israeli prison for exposing the Israeli nuclear program with photos and testimony.

As a condition for his release he was denied the right to speak to foreigners and reporters.

But the U.S. and Israel have both continued to maintain a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ stance toward Israel’s nuclear arsenal of approximately thirty warheads.

Now, assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller may be breaking that taboo. She gave a speech in New York listing the countries that must adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea. By including Israel in that list, she broke a thirty year silence by U.S. officials on the existence of an Israeli nuclear arsenal.

It has been widely speculated that the U.S. provided its ally Israel with nuclear technology. And recent evidence has indicated that it was Israel which provided South Africa with the nuclear bomb.

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