"Some speakers continue to lie about the statement of the Israeli prime minister, who did not say what they say he did," said Israel. DOUBLE SPEAK ISRAELI LIES. Who believes that Israel has not nuclear weapons already. ZANANU?

"This is strange; the Israeli prime minister acknowledged having nuclear weapons, now we hear that this is a lie."...Iran Ambassador "The only way for the international community to know the truth is to authorize the IAEA to send inspectors to Israel and verify the truth," OBVIOUS TRUTH.

"We are seriously concerned about possession of nuclear weapons and non-accession to NPT. Non-aligned countries representing billions of people want an end put to this matter," "We want the IAEA to have access to Israeli nuclear facilities and report to the international community at large,"

Arab states resent the slowness of nuclear states to dismantle arsenals in keeping with NPT obligations, as well as Israel's cold shoulder to the treaty

Israel is widely assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, though it has never confirmed or denied this

It is also one of just three states to shun the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, along with India and Pakistan.

Sooo... if this Israeli Prime Minister stated that 'Israel has nukes', where is the link to that statement? This is in direct contradiction to the article quoted above stating they have "never confirmed or denied this".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent/2841377.stm

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/israel/nuke.htm

I think it's funny!

I believe that nuclear Inspectors should visit Israel.

Waaaaa. Tit for Tat.
Of course they have nukes and damn well ought to!
They should have them for protection.
The mullahs should NOT, until they have shown to have changed motivation and intentions.
I don't see the need for nuance and 'intellectual' argument in this case. Israel haters' minds will not be changed here.
No doubt U.N. will respond to any nudge in the direction of focusing on Israel to give Iran a little breathing room to develop theirs. And the crazy world will cheer it.

cptenaud43
Those links portray the events as if they are overall a bad thing.
You are going to cite a commentary which sets out to condemn a country who, the year after being attacked by all it neighbors, turns its development to weaponry?
And the notion that all is justified by the holocaust ,I would call bogus. I think it is the continuing hatred and drive to exterminate them not ENDING with the holocaust that has been and IS the reason.

I believe laws, rules and regulations must be in effect for all. Not when someone is an ally we forget it and when someone else is enemy to remember it!

I think we should turn a blind eye to this. Israel is a sovereign Middle Eastern nation. Given the West's record of invading a neighbouring nation's territory for non-existent weapons of mass destruction, just imagine what they would do if they had evidence a country had real ones.