Category Archives: Israel

Deplorable

In contrast to its precursor of 2005 [1], the month-long 2010 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at UN Headquarters has concluded with a 28 pages long Final Consensus. The document contains a chapter on the Middle East where … Continue reading

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Dealing With the Pariah State

See update below. That Israel may have offered the former apartheid regime in South Africa nuclear warheads back in the 1975 doesn’t come as a surprise. As it won’t surprise that Shimon Peres’ office says that Israel has never negotiated the … Continue reading

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Mordechai Vanunu

Nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, who has been kidnapped in Italy by Israel’s intelligence operatives in Italy in 1986 and has spent 18 years behind bars because of disclosing the country’s covert nuclear weapons program and the Dimona nuclear plant has … Continue reading

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Thinking Through the Thinkable

Nobel Laureate Thomas C. Schelling made an appearance and shared his views on soon expected nuclear Iran yesterday on the New America Foundation. Schelling, who is a Distinguished Professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy and arms control at the … Continue reading

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Netanyahu’s Jerusalem

Jews have been living in the Middle East for thousands of years. Likewise for thousands of years, Jews had been quarreling with other peoples living in Palestine. When the Jews (or rather their nobles and aristocrats), after their Babylonian captivity, … Continue reading

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