{"id":662,"date":"2023-04-05T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=662"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:25:12","slug":"ex-israel-pm-confirms-israel-has-nuclear-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/ex-israel-pm-confirms-israel-has-nuclear-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Israel PM confirms Israel has nuclear bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday confirmed that Israel has nuclear\u00a0weapons, breaking a long maintained policy of &#8220;ambiguity&#8221; over the matter, the\u00a0<i>Jewish National\u00a0Syndicate\u00a0<\/i>reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In conversations between Israelis and Western political officials, they express deep concernabout the possibility that if the regime coup succeeds in Israel, a messianic dictatorship withnuclear weapons will be established in the heart of the Middle East whose,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">He referred to the US research of Professor Erica Chenoweth and political scientist Maria J.Stephan, who co-authored a 2012 book,\u00a0<i>Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic ofNonviolent Conflict<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Barak has emerged as one of the most determined critics of Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu&#8217;s government. Earlier this week, he revealed his strategy for a &#8220;counter-revolution&#8221; to overthrow it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"the-content\">\n<p>Speaking in an address to Chatham House, a London-based think tank, Barak\u2014a supporter of the anti-judicial reform protests that have roiled Israel\u2014said he was sure his side would win \u201cbecause I know our people, and we have even empirical evidence for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He referred to the U.S. research of Professor Erica Chenoweth and political scientist Maria J. Stephan, who co-authored a 2012 book,\u00a0<em>Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barak said the two researchers looked at hundreds of civil protests from 1900 to 2006, and \u201cthey found a common denominator.\u201d That is, protests that succeeded included 3.5% of the population, or roughly 8% of the adult population, and \u201ctenaciously and persistently\u201d kept up the protests, boycotts and civil disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>The Dimona nuclear research facility, officially called the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, is widely believed to house Israel\u2019s alleged nuclear-weapons program.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is estimated to have about 200 nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak yesterday confirmed that Israel has nuclear\u00a0weapons, breaking a long maintained policy of &#8220;ambiguity&#8221; over the matter, the\u00a0Jewish National\u00a0Syndicate\u00a0reported. &#8220;In conversations between Israelis and Western political officials, they express deep concernabout the possibility that if the regime coup succeeds in Israel, a messianic dictatorship withnuclear weapons will be established in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}