Isreals Weapons of Mass Destruction

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A subject that many people have forgotten to talk about.. whilst the medias attention is on Iraq with its Alleged WMD, Israels confirmed WMD threat to the World seems to be IGNORED

Weapons of Mass Destruction Capabilities and Programs](http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/israel.htm) Center for Nonproliferation Studies

Nuclear2 Sophisticated nuclear weapons program with an estimated 100-200 weapons, which can be delivered by ballistic missiles or aircraft.
Nuclear arsenal may include thermonuclear weapons.
150MW heavy water reactor and plutonium reprocessing facility at Dimona, which are not under IAEA safeguards.
IRR-1 5MW research reactor at Soreq, under IAEA safeguards.
Not a signatory of the NPT; signed the CTBT on 9/25/96.

Chemical3 Active weapons program, but not believed to have deployed chemical warheads on ballistic missiles.
Production capability for mustard and nerve agents.
Signed the CWC on 1/13/93, currently debating its ratification.

Biological4** Production capability and extensive research reportedly conducted at the Biological Research Institute in Ness Ziona.**
No publicly confirmed evidence of production.
Not a signatory of the BTWC.

Ballistic missiles5 Approximately 50 Jericho-2 missiles with 1,500km range and 1,000kg payload, **nuclear warheads may be stored in close proximity. **
Approximately 50 Jericho-1 missiles with 500km range and 500kg payload.
MGM-52 Lance missiles with 130km range and 450kg payload..
Shavit space launch vehicle (SLV) with 4,500km range and 150kg to 250kg payload.
Unconfirmed reports of Jericho-3 program under development using Shavit technologies, with a range up to 4,800km and 1000kg payload.
Developing Next (Shavit upgrade) SLV with unknown range and 300-500kg payload.

Cruise missiles6 Harpy lethal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with 500km range and unknown payload.
Delilah/STAR-1 UAV with 400km range and 50kg payload.
Gabriel-4 anti-ship cruise missile with 200km range and 500kg payload.
Harpoon anti-ship cruise missile with 120km range and 220kg payload.

Other delivery systems7 Fighter and ground-attack aircraft incllude: 2 F-15I, 6 F-15D, 18 F-15C, 2 F-15B, 36 F-15A, 54 F-16D, 76 F-16C, 8 F-16B, 67 F-16A, 50 F-4E-2000, 25 F-4E, 20 Kfir C7, and 50 A-4N.
Ground systems include artillery and rocket launchers. Also, Popeye-3 land-attack air-launched missile with 350km range and 360kg payload, and Popeye-1 land-attack air-launched missile with 100km range and 395kg payload.

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Not to mention the number of times this terororist state had invaded its neighbours such as Lebanon.

It continuous violations of human beings man woman and child

not to mention it assasinations, masscres, and starvation tactics of a people.

This war on terror is one way and that is targeted toward muslims and islam it is so clear you cannot be blind to the double standards Israel is prime candidate of a terorist state with many weapons of mass destruction!

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Yeah, but Iraq is the terrorist (with no weopons)

Al-Qaeda are the Terrorists(where is the proof they even exist for all we know its an organisation set up by the FBI & CIA)

Usama bin Laden is the Terrorist(who's to say he's not just a computer animated excuse for America to walk into any Muslim country to COLONIALISE it)

BUT WAIT..........NO Arieal Sharron is a hero after all he's back for some more Muslim blood..

WHERES THE TANKS MISILES POINTING TOWARDS ISRAEL THEN??

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Now why would those rotten Israeli’s need those nasty weapons?

Syria:

Largest and most advanced CW capability in the Middle East.
Reported to have chemical warheads for Scud ballistic missiles, and chemical gravity bombs for delivery by aircraft.
Estimated CW stockpile in hundreds of tons.
Agents believed to include Sarin, VX, and mustard gas.
Major production facilities near Damascus and Homs, with hundreds of tons of agents produced annually.
Program remains dependent on foreign chemicals and equipment.
Not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
http://cns.miis.edu/research/wmdme/syria.htm

Egypt:
Egypt was the first country in the Middle East to obtain chemical weapons training, indoctrination, and matériel. Egyptian interest in chemical weapons may have been prompted by Israel’s construction of the Dimona nuclear reactor in 1958. Chemical weapons are part of the Egyptian army’s standard issue. While the size of its arsenal is not known, some estimates suggest that it may be similar to that of Iraq prior to the Gulf War.
During the Yemen War of 1963 through 1967, Egypt evidently used mustard bombs in support of South Yemen against royalist troops in North Yemen. Nasser’s adventure in Yemen in 1963 on the side of a military coup began when the Egyptian army fought the Saudi Arabian backed royalist Yemeni tribes was the first time the Egyptian Army fights against Arabs since Ibrahim Pasha campaign against the Wahhabbie rebels in Arabia in the 1820’s. The use of chemical weapons against the Yemeni tribesmen was the first use of chemical weapons in the Middle East. During the Yemeni civil war phosgene and mustard aerial bombs killed at least 1,400 people. Some reports claim that Egypt also used an organophosphate nerve agent against Yemeni Royalist forces.

Prior to the 1967 war with Israel, the fact that the Egyptian army was equipped with chemical weapons reportedly led to the preparation in Israel of thousands of graves that were designated for victims of gas attacks. It is also reported that on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur war Egypt supplied Syria with chemical weapons.

As of 1990 the Defense Intelligence Agency study “Offensive Chemical Warfare Programs in the Middle East” concluded that Egypt was continuing to conduct research related to chemical agents. For sevarl years prior to the 1991 Gulf War, Egypt was believed to have been working with Iraq on the production and stockpiling of chemical weapons. In September 1993 the London Times reported that Egypt had purchased “large quantities” of chemical weapons precursors from India, including about 90 tons of trimethyl phosphate, which is used in the production of mustard gas.
It is almost certain that the Egyptian chemical weapon stockpile continues to include mustard gas and phosgene, as were used in the 1960s in Yemen, and it is reported that the Egyptians also produce VX nerve gas. These agents are probably available for delivery in munitions such as mines, artillery shells, salvo bombs, rockets, air-to-surface bombs and missile warheads. It has been suggested, with some plausibility, that chemical agent warheads have been developed for the “Condor” missile project, which was abandoned, and for the Scud-C missile, which is operational

Never mind the possibly defunct Iraq arsenal. Could it be that Israel is surrounded by enemies with WMD?

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SO THAT JUSTIFIES KILLING MUSLIMS WITH TANKS PLANES HELECOPTERS. HOW MANY TIMES HAS ISRAEL INVADED ITS NEIGHBOURS, MAYBEE YOU SHOULD GO AND DO SOME RESEARCH ON THAT SAM!

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My my, so angry! Turn off the caps. I thought this thread was to discuss WMD, not invasions.

Perhaps you ought to acknowledge that Israel is surrounded by angry Muslims who have lots of WMD and wish to wipe Israel off the face of the earth?

My name is not Sam.

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:hehe:

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Kosser_M: *
SO THAT JUSTIFIES KILLING MUSLIMS WITH TANKS PLANES HELECOPTERS. HOW MANY TIMES HAS ISRAEL INVADED ITS NEIGHBOURS, MAYBEE YOU SHOULD GO AND DO SOME RESEARCH ON THAT SAM!
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Very well said!

This is something americas dont understand...

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Ohioguy: *
My my, so angry! Turn off the caps. I thought this thread was to discuss WMD, not invasions.

Perhaps you ought to acknowledge that Israel is surrounded by angry Muslims who have lots of WMD and wish to wipe Israel off the face of the earth?

My name is not Sam.
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If invasions wouldn't occure and land would be shared peacefully among those I don't think ppl would need WMDs. Do you?

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Ali,

"If invasions wouldn't occure and land would be shared peacefully among those I don't think ppl would need WMDs. Do you?"

Sure, land for peace, Saudi plan, dismantle settlements, full recognition, '67 borders etc., etc. etc. I am all for it.

Unfortunately WMD are now beginning to take on a life of their own. Just as a reminder, the US had huge supplies of WMD, and is in the process of destroying them. Bio weapons are really weapons of terror no matter how you look at them. If used, there is a great probability that the wind will blow wrong and your own people will be infected. Infectious diseases have a huge possibility of spreading back to your own country or around the world. Chemical weapons tend to escalate conflicts, and then beg for retaliation. If the wind is blowing wrong you gas your own troops, and the results are very unpredictable.

For the most part these things just make rotten military weapons, and that is why the US no longer has them in our fighting doctrine. BUT they are some kind of mark of sovereignty, and to give them up is tantmount to emasculation. Countries feel that they can use these weapons in a doomsday scenario where they are going to lose control of their country. Exactly where we are today with Iraq.

In essence these weapons ultimately keep tyrants in power. As long as there is some sociopath willing to pull the trigger, a tyrant never has to give in to world pressure. Can you imagine Israel over running and occupying Egypt? Not enough people in all of Israel to occupy Egypt. but if Egypt is losing militarily, they can retaliate by gassing the oncoming troops, and of couse it is bye-bye Cairo when the Israeli's retaliate.....

In the end Ali, you are right, it is diplomacy and peace that will ultimately have to prevail. That assumes that all parties want peace and are willing to compromise. There is a real shortage of that these days.....

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"In essence these weapons ultimately keep tyrants in power"

And the biggest tyrant is BUSH!

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Kosser_M: *
"In essence these weapons ultimately keep tyrants in power"

And the biggest tyrant is BUSH!
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You read only what you want to read don't you Kosser?

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"And the biggest tyrant is BUSH!"

I dunno, with savvy arguements like the one above, I may have to change my thinking on things....

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Maybe its time the UN implement resolutions condemning Israels WMD programme.

Israel’s Weapons of Mass Destruction](http://communication.ucsd.edu/911/massdestruction.html) by Neil Sammonds; Oct 11, 2002, ZNet (Excerpt)

Facing official Dutch and Israeli stone-walling, an independent Dutch nuclear research group discovered that the plane used depleted uranium as ballast. In 1998 the Dutch daily Handelsblad revealed even deadlier material in the cargo: flight LY1862 was carrying 10 tons of chemicals, including hydrofluoric acid, isopropanol and dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) Ñ three of the four chemicals used in the production of sarin nerve gas. A belated Dutch parliamentary enquiry into the crash discovered unpublicized weekly flights from New York to Tel Aviv stopping off at Schiphol, where cargoes were not inspected and as the Dutch attorney general testified El Al security staff worked for Mossad. In the words of an investigator working on behalf of the Bijlmermeer survivors, Schiphol had become, and continues to be, “a hub for secret weapons transfers”.“Invisible” facilities

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Any news on the UN inspectors heading towards Israel?

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God bless Israel. :jhanda:

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Man Israel aint all that!

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Look who is talking… :rolleyes:

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Yeah they was vetoed by America! :bukbuk:

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by 2bornot2b: *
Any news on the UN inspectors heading towards Israel?
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Just a matter of time.. even if the Bush Adminstration continues to vetoe resolutions regarding Israel, it would make a mockery of the UN inspections around the world, if they blatantly ignored the dangers posed by Israeli WMD. Israel officially denies having nuclear, chemical and biological weapons but there is an abundance of evidence leaked to the media in the last few decades which prove otherwise.