[E-rundbrief] Info 599 - Israelis and nuclear arms

[matthias reichl]

E-Rundbrief - Info 599 - Haarez (ISRAEL): Poll: 
72% of Israelis back use of nuclear arms in certain circumstances.

Bad Ischl, 1.10.2007

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Poll: 72% of Israelis back use of nuclear arms in certain circumstances

Ha'aretz Update Monday, October 01, 2007

By Haarez Service

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/908725.html

Some 72 percent of Israelis support the use of 
nuclear weapons in certain circumstances, 
according to the results of a Canadian survey 
released Monday, Army Radio reported.

The number of Israeli respondents in favor of 
destroying the world's nuclear arms was lower 
than any of the six countries questioned in the 
Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies poll, the radio said.

Pollsters said the Israeli response demonstrated 
that the public is primarily concerned with 
national defense mechanisms in the face of a threat from a nuclear Iran.

About half of the Israeli respondents who back 
using nuclear weapons said they saw it as a 
possible way of preventing war; the other half 
said they supported using nuclear arms during a war.

The poll also showed that 75 percent of Israelis 
would feel safer if they knew with certainty that 
Israel has atomic weapons. Israel has maintained 
an official veil of secrecy on rumors that it has 
in its possession nuclear weapons.

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Comment by Dorothy/ Elana: If the information 
below is true, it shows tremendous ignorance 
among Israelis. Israel's of use nuclear arms 
would be tantamount to committing suicide [and 
murder too] , as the title of Seymour Hersh's 
book, 'The Samson Option' suggests.

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