Ben-Gurion blocked America's nuclear inspectors that JFK had dispatched to Israel

Democrats Want Trump to Lift Lid on Israeli Nukes

A group of 30 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding that the Trump administration disclose information about Israel’s nuclear arsenal and related policies.

The lawmakers argued that continued official U.S. silence on the issue creates serious risks in the Middle East, particularly amid the ongoing conflict with Iran.

The letter states that “the risks of miscalculation, escalation, and nuclear use in this environment are not theoretical” and criticizes the U.S. for fighting “side by side with a country whose potential nuclear weapons program the United States government officially refuses to acknowledge.”

It calls for ending the long-standing ambiguity to support a coherent nonproliferation policy in the region, including regarding Iran’s nuclear program and Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied possessing nuclear weapons and maintains no public doctrine on their potential use or “red lines.”

GhostofBasedPatrickHenry: Now we are getting to the place where this narrative always wanted to go.

The illegal Israeli nuclear program is a far-reaching web spanning decades that [likely] includes the assassination of JFK, the Yom Kippur War and corresponding Energy Crisis, Robert Maxwell and his ownership of the Daily Mail, among other topics.

In 1963, JFK engaged in what is known as The War of the Letters with then Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. JFK had been inquiring about a potential covert nuclear program in Israel—which he was warned about by President Eisenhower during the customary transition meeting between incoming/outgoing administrations.

Ben-Gurion had been blocking America's inspectors that JFK had dispatched to Israel, restricting their access and outright blocking them from entering certain buildings. It was clear that Ben-Gurion was hiding something, and JFK assured him that he was going to learn the truth.

After JFK's assassination, the optics of the situation were so bad for Ben-Gurion that he resigned from office, ending the 16-year tenure of Israel's founding Prime Minister—the longest-serving PM until Netanyahu.

According to convicted Israeli spy (American traitor) Jonathan Pollard, during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Richard Nixon had cut off shipments of weapons and ammunition to Israel in an attempt to de-escalate and free America of liability or involvement.

Pollard says that Israel responded by loading up a nuclear warhead onto a plane, parking that plane on the runway, and telling the Nixon administration to look at the runway with its satellites. Pollard claims that Israel then threatened to use this nuke against the Arabs if the shipments of conventional weapons wasn't immediately resumed. He says that the shipments resumed the very next day.

In 1985, an Israeli nuclear scientist named Mordecai Vanunu defected from Israel to London, carrying with him a mountain of evidence he had gathered proving that Israel was maintaining a secret and highly illegal nuclear weapons program—the exact kind of program that Iran has long been accused of pursuing.

Vanunu was speaking to news outlets in London to determine which one was best suited to take on the story. When Robert Maxwell caught wind of it, he had his newspaper, The Daily Mail, publish several hit pieces on Vanunu that were designed to discredit and impugn his character. The stories were all false, of course, but damaging enough to make many dismiss his claims as the vindictive acts of a disgruntled scientist.

Vanunu was lured to Italy by the Mossad, where he was kidnapped and taken back to Israel to face a closed-door trial. He was convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison, much of which was spent in solitary confinement. He now lives as a ward of the state, unable to travel or freely use the internet. (He temporarily had an X account and even followed me, but that was shuttered by the Israeli government.)

I have long been waiting for the zeitgeist to reach such a point where the incentive structure motivated the television characters to pursue this issue. Like many other things they do, I know that they are not pursuing this because it is the right thing to do. They are pursuing this because they see an opportunity to damage President Trump politically, because President Trump has so closely aligned himself with the State of Israel.