As during the Kennedy era, Tel Aviv remains focused on a single goal: ensuring that its ally and patron (the US) continues a six-decade policy ensuring that Israel is not held accountable—for anything, notes Jeff Gates.
Jeff Gates, Middle East Online, Oct 13, 2009
More than 46 years ago, President John F. Kennedy sought to preclude a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. In June 1963, he wrote the last in a series of insistent letters to Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Those letters sought what Israel now demands of Iran: international inspections of its nuclear facilities. The key difference: Kennedy knew for certain that Israel, while portraying itself a friend and ally, repeatedly lied to Kennedy about its nuclear weapons development at the Dimona reactor in the Negev Desert.
Tags: Ben Gurion, Dimona reactor, Israel, israel Lobby, Israeli nuclear arsenal, Lyndon Johnson and Israel, Mordecai Vanunu, President Kennedy's letter, Richard Nixon, United States
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