Carter says Israel has arsenal of 150 nuclear weapons

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edited May 2008 in A Moving Train
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/987158.html

"Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a U.S. president has publicly acknowledged Israel's atomic arsenal.

Asked at a news conference at Wales's Hay literary festival on Sunday how a future U.S. president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons held globally.

"The U.S. has more more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union (Russia) has about the same, Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more. We have a phalanx of enormous weaponry ... not only of enormous weaponry but of rockets to deliver those missiles on a pinpoint accuracy target," he said, according to a transcript of his remarks.

Carter also condemned Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip as "one of the greatest human rights crimes now existing on Earth," according to the Agence France-Presse news agency. "
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  • wwfairfield
    wwfairfield Posts: 216
    hypocrites

    don't get me wrong ...i loves me some heeb....sara silverman, natalie portman, jerry seinfeld ect. ...
    but israel is just wrong





    and don't ban me .. it is the name of a jewish magazine
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Ever since Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel's nuclear program they've stock piling ever since. What exactly have they had to fear especially with America's backing.

    Peace
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  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    g under p wrote:
    Ever since Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel's nuclear program they've stock piling ever since. What exactly have they had to fear especially with America's backing.

    Peace


    carter better watch his back before israel kidnaps him and imprisons him like vanunu
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    El_Kabong wrote:
    carter better watch his back before israel kidnaps him and imprisons him like vanunu

    Nuclear Threat Is From Israel NOT Iran. If this secret never came out where would we be today?

    Peace
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    g under p wrote:
    Nuclear Threat Is From Israel NOT Iran. If this secret never came out where would we be today?

    Peace


    Nicknamed Golda's balcony?!?!?

    Oh man this situation is severely fucked up...

    Worse than I thought.
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7420573.stm

    'Former Israeli military intelligence chief Aharon Zeevi-Farkash told Reuters news agency he considered Mr Carter's comments "irresponsible".

    "The problem is that there are those who can use these statements when it comes to discussing the international effort to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons," he said.

    During the press briefing, Mr Carter expressed his support for Israel as a country, but criticised its domestic and foreign policy.

    "One of the greatest human rights crimes on earth is the starvation and imprisonment of 1.6m Palestinians," he said.

    The former US president cited statistics which he said showed the nutritional intake of some Palestinian children was below that of children in Sub-Saharan Africa..'
  • wwfairfield
    wwfairfield Posts: 216
    he don't hate on the jews
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=q_XAeqtY7Sk&feature=related
    israel is the problem
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    as long as there are still suicide bombings and rocks being thrown by palestinians - it's all that is required for the world to ignore the oppressive regime that exists in israel ...
  • SundaySilence
    SundaySilence Posts: 537
    polaris wrote:
    as long as there are still suicide bombings and rocks being thrown by palestinians - it's all that is required for the world to ignore the oppressive regime that exists in israel ...

    arm palestine like we arm israel...

    ...would put an end to suicide bombings and rocks being thrown
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    SundaySilence wrote:
    arm palestine like we arm israel...

    ...would put an end to suicide bombings and rocks being thrown

    sadly - although that would level the playing field ... it wouldn't put an end to this situation ...
  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    sounds like we need to invade Isreal...do they have any oil?
    the Minions
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Jewish Rabbi condemns Zionism...

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1NLdRVkJiA&feature=related

    "We hope that the Zionist entity will be peacefully dismantled and that an independent Palestinian state will be established here."
  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    Jimmy Carter needs to Shut the Fuck UP! He was a failed president why would anyone listen to him.

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    kh65 wrote:
    Jimmy Carter needs to Shut the Fuck UP! He was a failed president why would anyone listen to him.

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    i remember the day the iranian hostages were taken. and i find it an interesting moment in history that carter was thwarted in his attempts to secure their release and yet the reagan administration managed it with relative ease.
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  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    catefrances wrote:
    i remember the day the iranian hostages were taken. and i find it an interesting moment in history that carter was thwarted in his attempts to secure their release and yet the reagan administration managed it with relative ease.

    Because the Iranians weren't going to let him have one moment of glory and they were scarred shitless of RR. He wasn't going to take any crap and they knew it. All you have to do is remember the time before the election in '80 to know what the American people thought of him. He's a nightmare.
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  • SundaySilence
    SundaySilence Posts: 537
    kh65 wrote:
    Jimmy Carter needs to Shut the Fuck UP! He was a failed president why would anyone listen to him.

    Catrer orchestrated a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Not a point of that treaty has been breached in nearly 30 years.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    kh65 wrote:
    Because the Iranians weren't going to let him have one moment of glory and they were scarred shitless of RR. He wasn't going to take any crap and they knew it. All you have to do is remember the time before the election in '80 to know what the American people thought of him. He's a nightmare.

    scared shitless of reagan my arse. have you any idea of the back room shenanigans that went on at that time? how implicit the CIA was in it all?

    excuse me if i dont take into account the mindset of the american public when it comes to their choice of president. you all voted nixon in for fucks sake. :rolleyes:
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  • SundaySilence
    SundaySilence Posts: 537
    kh65 wrote:
    Because the Iranians weren't going to let him have one moment of glory and they were scarred shitless of RR. He wasn't going to take any crap and they knew it. All you have to do is remember the time before the election in '80 to know what the American people thought of him. He's a nightmare.

    Carter secured the hostages release. Reagan may have committed treason by subverting the president of the united states and prolonging the hostage crisis; by bowing to Iran -giving Iran weapons to delay the release of hostages for domestic politics.
  • kh65
    kh65 Posts: 946
    SundaySilence wrote:
    Catrer orchestrated a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Not a point of that treaty has been breached in nearly 40 years.

    It was more like 30 years and it was his ONE shinning moment. Do you remember the state he left the economy? We were in a huge recession when RR took over. Interest rates were near 20% and unemployment was in double digits, too.
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  • SammyK14
    SammyK14 Posts: 287
    SundaySilence wrote:
    arm palestine like we arm israel...

    ...would put an end to suicide bombings and rocks being thrown

    arm palestine like we arm israel would put an end to israel
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