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Article: Israeli Officials See Few Prospects for Arms Control
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- Arms Control Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Muslim governments often point to the willingness of the United States to tolerate Israel's nuclear weapons program as evidence of a double standard. Most prominently, Iran has said that efforts to prevent it from building the capacity to enrich uranium are unfair in light of Israel's assumed capabilities.
Similarly, part of Egypt's motive in holding up the deliberations of a May international conference to review the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) was an attempt to focus attention on Israel's program (see page 22).
But in a series of recent interviews in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israeli officials told Arms Control Today that their counterparts in Egypt and Iran often seem more intent ...