Cohen's latest release is " The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb" and in a recent interview with Haaretz, Cohen spoke about a late-1969 meeting between Golda Meir and Nixon:
"The United States and most of the Western world agreed to accept Israel's special nuclear status. In other words, Israel did not join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but it received special status, and pressure was not exerted on it with regard to this topic. Ambiguity is the Israeli-American policy. Without the West's agreement, there would be no ambiguity .
"The bitter irony is that right now, ambiguity serves the interests of Israel's rival in the Middle East. Iran is creating its own version of ambiguity: not the concealment of its project, but rather ambiguity with regard to the distinction separating possession and non-possession of nuclear weapons. It reiterates that it has no intention of building a bomb, but that it has the right to enrich uranium, and even come close to developing [nuclear] weapons - while still remaining true to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is straddling the line, and in my opinion, Iran wants to, and can, remain for some time with the status of a state that might or might not have the bomb. Iran is a state of ambiguity." [5]
On 2 October 2009, The Washington Times
reported that Obama agreed to keep Israel's nukes 'secret' and reaffirmed a
4-decade-old understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear
arsenal without opening it to international inspections." [6]
Three officials spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were
discussing private conversations, but all said Obama pledged to maintain the
agreement when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the
White House in May 2009.
Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its
nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would
require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs.
This nuclear deception was reached at a summit between President Nixon and
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir on 25 September 1969.
Avner Cohen, reported that the accord amounted to "the United States passively accepting Israel's nuclear weapons status as long as Israel does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon."[Ibid]
During my 2005 interviews with Mordechai Vanunu he told me:
"Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, 'The nuclear reactor is only for peace.'
"Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection. The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there, almost twenty years ago. Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors underground.
"In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.
"When Johnson became president, he made an agreement
with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the
senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground
elevators and stairways. From 1963 to '69, the senators came, but they never
knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. Nixon stopped
the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel
increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they
may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year." [7]
In 2007, the Nixon library declassified a 19 July 1969, memo from Henry
Kissinger, the then national security adviser stating: "While we might
ideally like to halt actual Israeli possession, what we really want at a
minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established
international fact."
The "established international facts" were exposed in 1986, when Mordechai Vanunu told the truth and provided the photographic proof of Israel's seven story underground WMD Facility that can be viewed on You Tube:
Israel's Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D
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