The Zionists seem to have changed their ‘Playbook’ since Golda Meir was prime minister of Israel – “from we’re all Palestinians to there is no Palestine”:
From 1921 to 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport. There was no such [inaudible]. . . East and Westbank was Palestine, I am a Palestinian.
– Golda Meir, Prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974
Golda meir, Prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. pic.twitter.com/XbmB78i7PE
— Khaled Z (@___vip3r) July 27, 2025
Israel illegally obtained the enriched uranium from a company called NUMEC owned by an American Jew in Pennsylvania, and the nuclear triggers to make a bomb were obtained illegally in California by an Israeli filmmaker… Benjamin Netanyahu was involved in the thefts, so he should be arrested the next time he comes to the United States! – Philip Giraldi, Former CIA Operations officer in Europe and Middle East, veteran, and PhD in European History
Israel has never officially confirmed or denied having nuclear weapons and has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Instead, even as evidence has emerged about its nuclear capabilities, Israel has maintained a policy of nuclear ambiguity.
The origins of this opacity lie in a secret deal forged in a one-on-one meeting between Israeli prime minister, Golda Meir, and the US president, Richard Nixon, at the White House in September 1969.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to Avner Cohen, professor of non-proliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterrey in the US, about that 1969 deal and why it has endured for more than 50 years. Cohen is the author of Israel and the Bomb, considered the definitive work on Israel’s nuclear programme, and has been interrogated by the Israeli state for his research.
Cohen tells us that the understanding between Meir and Nixon meant the US accepted Israel as a special kind of nuclear weapon state. In turn, Israel committed to restraint, not to test nuclear weapons, and not to be the first to introduce them to the region. Neither side has confirmed the existence of a deal, and there are only hints at it in the historical record. Cohen explains:
Once you realise that there is actually a deal, it explains a great deal of the situation. Why the US [is] looking the other way, why the issue is determined to be removed from the diplomatic agenda, and why many other countries, especially in the west, prefer not to see the Israeli nuclear issue.
Listen to the conversation with Avner Cohen on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
This episode of The Conversation Weekly was written and produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware with assistance from Katie Flood and Ashlynne McGhee. Mixing and sound design by Eloise Stevens and theme music by Neeta Sarl.
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