Netanyahu saw Obama at the White House late last month to discuss the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. But they failed to see eye to eye and bilateral ties remain strained.
"The prime minister has decided to cancel his trip to Washington to attend the nuclear conference next week, after learning that some countries including Egypt and Turkey plan to say Israel must sign the NPT," the official said.
"This conference is about nuclear terrorism," Netanyahu told reporters on Wednesday. "And I'm not concerned that anyone will think that Israel is a terrorist regime. Everybody knows a terrorist and rogue regime when they see one, and believe me they see quite a few -- around Israel."
UPDATE 4-Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit | News by Country | Reuters
This is getting scary, folks. I wonder where Obama's true loyalties in this region lie?
New-York, 25th July, 1787.
Dear Sir,
Permit me to hint whether it would not be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of foreigners into the administration of our national government ; and to declare expressly that the command in chief of the American army shall not be given to, nor devolve on any but a natural born citizen.
I remain, dear sir,
Your faithful friend and servant,
John Jay.
what a coward. Cancelling because he does not want to admit that Israel has nukes.. pathetic coward.
what a coward. Cancelling because he does not want to admit that Israel has nukes.. pathetic coward.
What does your birther crap have to do with this?
Are you trying to say John Jay didn't write that letter to George Washington?
Are you trying to say John Jay didn't write that letter to George Washington?
The prime minister has decided to cancel his trip to Washington to attend the nuclear conference next week, after learning that some countries including Egypt and Turkey plan to say Israel must sign the NPT," the official said.
I'd love to see you say that to his face, it would be precious.what a coward. Cancelling because he does not want to admit that Israel has nukes.. pathetic coward.
He made the decision after learning Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel's assumed atomic arsenal at the meeting, a senior government official said on Friday.
"The prime minister has decided to cancel his trip to Washington to attend the nuclear conference next week, after learning that some countries including Egypt and Turkey plan to say Israel must sign the NPT," the official said.
Deputy Israeli Prime Minister Dan Meridor will stand in for Netanyahu at the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) on April 12-13.
Netanyahu's attendance would have been the first by an Israeli premier at an international nuclear forum. Aides said he originally agreed to go after being reassured by the United States that the NSS communique would focus on efforts to secure fissile material with no allusions to Israel's undeclared arms.
Everyone has known that Israel has nukes for decades so what is the reason for 'hiding'?
Jesus Christ........ Like he doesn't know the whole world knows Israel has nukes.
Back to what ever it is you are smoking. :roll:
Are you trying to say John Jay didn't write that letter to George Washington?
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There is an Israeli delegation, though, so what's the big fuss all about?
Netanyahu is simply not interested in changing the summit's focus from the Iranian nuclear program to the Israeli refusal to sign on the NPT(Which India does as well by the way), something that the Muslim nations are already aiming on.
If India did not sign the NPT, it is not because of its lack of commitment for non-proliferation, but because we consider NPT as a flawed treaty and it did not recognise the need for universal, non-discriminatory verification and treatment.
UPDATE 4-Netanyahu cancels trip to Obama's nuclear summit | News by Country | Reuters
This is getting scary, folks. I wonder where Obama's true loyalties in this region lie?
These are actual quotes from the article, that I doubt anyone took any item to read while there was baseless Obama bashing to get too, as opposed to bashing actually based on something which there is plenty of.
So what can we learn from these?
1) The Israeli PM not showing has nothing to do with Obama, but with Turkey and Egypt
2) Israel is still attending its just the equivalent of the vice President going.
3) The US reassured Netanyahu that there would be no focus on its undeclared nuclear arms, which was the reasons HE WAS GOING TO GO. So in fact the US was the reason Netanyahu was going to show up NOT the reason he decided to bail.
Do you all understand this? Its a total outright lie and falsehood to say Netanyahu isn't showing because he can't get along with Obama, the only reasons he was going, AS IT CLEARLY states, is because the US was able to convince him of something. And I would assume that one gov't saying to another "Hey trust me" and that other gov't believing that statement would be a sign of friendly relations.
Regardless of the settlement issue in Israel, the US and Israel are held together by far too much to be completely torn apart by one issue. And in fact if you actually know your history about this US-Israel-Palestine peace process, the US and Israel have ALWAYS disagreed about SOMETHING relating to the way forward to peace. Under every president since we got involved in the Israel-Palestine conflict, there have been disagreements between Israel and the US, and some of those were over SETTLEMENTS. For example, settlements and walls in the west bank were strongly opposed by Bush but still built by Israel. I never heard any of you saying Bush was destroyed our relationship with Israel.
So keep your biased crap, your skewed thinking, and total disregard for information and history to yourself.
Cites please. Show us when Israel has ever outright denied having nuclear weapons. Israel has always neither confirmed nor denied nuclear capability.And yet Israel not only refuses to acknowledge this, but in fact they often have said they dont have nukes or refuse to comment on it.
If Israel has nukes, they acquired this capability before the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1969/1970).They also refuse to sign the non proliferation treaty.. because they dont have nukes after all.. :roll:
FAS - Federation of American ScientistsThere is little doubt that some time in the late sixties Israel became the sixth nation to manufacture nuclear weapons. The Samson Option states that Moshe Dayan gave the go-ahead for starting weapon production in early 1968, putting the plutonium separation plant into full operation. Israel began producing three to five bombs a year. The book Critical Mass asserts that Israel had two bombs in 1967, and that Prime Minister Eshkol ordered them armed in Israel's first nuclear alert during the Six-Day War.[54] Avner Cohen in his recent book, Israel and the Bomb, agrees that Israel had a deliverable nuclear capability in the 1967 war. He quotes Munya Mardor, leader of Rafael, the Armament Development Authority, and other unnamed sources, that Israel “cobbled together” two deliverable devices.[55]
Israel clearly sees the writing on the wall. That is, the Obama administration favors the Palestinian cause. Their pro-Israel rhetoric in the campaign was only to avoid alienating the influential Jewish community in the U.S..
He made the decision after learning Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel's assumed atomic arsenal at the meeting, a senior government official said on Friday.
:rofl
For the reading impaired, here is the key line from the article linked in the OP. Usually a good idea to read those to avoid making stupid statements.
Now, what exactly does that have to do with Obama?
ODS is not pretty.
Officially, Israel has no nuclear weapons.
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