Friday, December 07, 2007

Halevi: "Insult, betrayal"


An Insult to Intelligence: Israel Responds to the NIE
-Yossi Klein Halevi

The sense of betrayal within the Israeli security system is deep. After convincing the international community that the nuclear threat was real, now that has been undone by Israel's closest ally.

What makes Israeli security officials especially furious is that the report casts doubt on Iranian determination to attain nuclear weapons. Is it, asks one Israeli analyst, [logical] for one of the world's largest oil exporters to risk international sanctions and economic ruin for the sake of a peaceful nuclear program?

"The Syrians were working on their nuclear project for seven years, and we discovered it only recently," says one security analyst. "The Americans didn't know about it at all. So how can they be so sure about Iran?"
(New Republic)

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