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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 3, 2000
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Israel accused of hiding warheads
Legislator reveals nuclear capability
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — The first public parliamentary debate of Israel's top-secret nuclear weapons arsenal degenerated into an ugly confrontation yesterday when an Arab legislator announced that Israel has up to 300 nuclear warheads, prompting Jewish lawmakers to call him a spokesman for terrorists.
Military censorship always has forbidden reports in the local media about Israel's nuclear arsenal. But Issam Mahoul's speech, broadcast live on television, gave Israelis their first opportunity to hear details from one of their own. Most Jewish lawmakers marched out of parliament in protest.
A visibly uncomfortable Cabinet minister, Haim Ramon, responded
to Mahoul by repeating Israel's well-known, yet vague nuclear policy statement and refuting Mahoul's premise that the public has the right to know.
Ramon said Israel would not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East, a decades-old policy known as "ambiguity," implying that Israel has nuclear arms capability, but not actual bombs.
Two diplomats from the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv watched the debate from the gallery. Egypt has been pressing for Israel to sign the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and get rid of the weapons it never has admitted having.
Jewish members interrupted Mahoul's speech with catcalls as he declared: "All the world knows that Israel is a vast warehouse of atomic, biological and chemical weapons that serves as the anchor for the Middle East arms race."
Some lawmakers called him a spokesman for Arab terrorists.
"All the world knows that Israel is a vast warehouse of atomic, biological and chemical weapons."
Issam Mahoul
Legislator
"You are committing a crime against Israeli Arabs today," shouted Ofer Pines-Paz, an Arab and chairman of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's coalition in parliament.
Undeterred, Mahoul went on to claim that Israel's three new German-built submarines would be fitted with nuclear weapons to provide Israel the capacity to retaliate if hit with a nuclear attack. Mahoul said the policy undermined government claims that its nuclear threat is a deterrent to attack.
Mahoul said Israel's vague policy statement had lost all credibility,
pointing to disclosures by Mordechai Vanunu, who worked at Israel's desert nuclear reactor before revealing nuclear weapons secrets to the London Sunday Times in 1986. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason.
A dozen Israeli antinuclear weapons activists, invited by Mahoul's Hadash party, sat in the gallery. One of them, Glideon Spiro, said the government's ambiguity policy was wearing thin.
"The difference is that the same old lies are being told against the background of more transparency from the point of view of information that's available to us," he said.
The debate was raucous and bitter even by the standards of Israel's unruly parliament. It created a rare public split down ethnic lines, with Jews from almost all political backgrounds opposing the Arab members, though Barak's party often sides with the Arab members and counts on them for political support.
BOB WOODWARD
of The Washington Post, and an author of eight national best-selling books from "All the President's Men" in 1974 to "Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate" in 1999, will speak at 1:30 P.M. Friday, February 4, in Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union.
The Palitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter will receive the William Allen White National Citation of Merit at this ceremony that is open to the public. He will be a guest if the KU School of Journalism.
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