Don't ask, don't tell Israeli style-
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JERUSALEM, May 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. administration of President Barack Obama will not force Israel to state publicly whether it has nuclear weapons, an Israeli official said on Thursday.
He said Washington would stick to a decades-old U.S. policy of "don't ask, don't tell".
Obama's bid to curb Iran's nuclear programme through diplomacy has stirred speculation that, as part of a regional disarmament regimen, Israel could be asked to come clean on its own secret capabilities.
But a senior Israeli diplomat, speaking after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first summit with Obama in Washington this week, said: "This has never happened, nor will it happen with this administration."
That U.S. message had been conveyed, the diplomat said, "on the various levels of our bilateral talks".
Israel is widely believed to have procured the Middle East's only nuclear weapons. It neither confirms nor denies this, under an "ambiguity" policy billed as deterring foes while avoiding the kind of public provocations that can trigger arms races.
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Does anyone believe Israel does not have nukes?
Maybe they're pulling a Saddam and acting like they have them when they really don't?
Personally I think they have them and they likely got the technology from the US.
Without them, or at least the threat of them, would they have a harder time surviving in the hostile environment they exist?
Anyone think Obama's going to have better luck with middle east peace then any of his predecessors?