Hey Drudge–This Isn’t News!
Drudge’s Current Headline: “Secret Defense Report Shows Israel Owns 82 Nuke Weapons”
Uh Drudge, this so isn’t new news! Were you still thinking that the plant was still a “Textile Factory”?
Here’s what FAS has on Israel’s nuclear program (there are links to more sources at the bottom of the page). And here’s something by MSNBC . Also see this page on Avner Cohen’s book “Israel and the Bomb”….
It’s nothing new Drudge! It’s an open secret–even though the Israeli gov’t has a policy of denying it. And for the record, Mordechai Vanunu who formally “outted the program” is a traitor.
Here’s a color spy picture from 2000
that’s what i said.. Big deal if Israel has nukes, We can trust them… There are no rape rooms and mass graves in israel… only maggot “palestinians”.
Comment by Aaron — 2/22/2004 @ 9:20 pm
But it’s the joooooooooooooooos
Comment by jaws — 2/22/2004 @ 9:36 pm
hmmm…I just put up this post over at Pardon My English where I call Israel a nuclear power. I didn’t know it was a secret.
Comment by Tyler — 2/22/2004 @ 10:03 pm
Tyler it’s an open “secret”. It’s all but common knowledge that Israel is a nuclear power, but the gov’t will neither confirm or deny the presence of nuclear arms. In that way people joke that it’s a secret.
Comment by jaws — 2/22/2004 @ 10:06 pm
I remember John Loftus said israel had nukes and said exactly what Jaws is saying, “he gov’t will neither confirm or deny the presence of nuclear arms”
Comment by Aaron — 2/22/2004 @ 10:15 pm
Tyler it’s an open “secret”.
Ahh, I see. I love those details such as “neither confirm nor deny” tactics that are used as an out.
Comment by Tyler — 2/22/2004 @ 10:25 pm
That’s exactly it. Like they won’t comment on how much nuclear material they’ve processed, or how many bombs they’ve got etc. The only real leak out about it was Mordechai Vanunnu back in the 80s when he turned, became an uber-leftist and started to share state [Israeli] secrets.
Comment by jaws — 2/22/2004 @ 10:36 pm
I hate it when that happens.
“Uber-leftist” – That definitely just made its way into my repitoir of insults.
Comment by Tyler — 2/22/2004 @ 10:56 pm