{"id":488,"date":"2019-11-12T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T19:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking-the-silence.online\/index.php\/2019\/11\/12\/israel-has-never-publicly-acknowledged-its-nuclear-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:25:04","slug":"israel-has-never-publicly-acknowledged-its-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaliafoka.com\/breaking-the-silence\/index.php\/2019\/11\/12\/israel-has-never-publicly-acknowledged-its-nuclear-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel has never publicly acknowledged its nuclear arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“The Bank of Israel just signaled that, in their view, moving to a negative interest rate, if required, is no longer taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But <\/span>the scene which has turned heads is one in which the protagonist\u2019s father-in-law brushes off the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> of doing business with Israelis.<\/p>\n

I addressed many of these issues<\/strong>, along with the toxic history of \u2018race science,\u2019 in my book Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We\u2019re Afraid to Talk About It.
\nPeter Beinart<\/a>, an influential American commentator<\/strong>, has shocked the Jewish establishment and Washington policy-making circles<\/strong> by breaking<\/strong> a long-standing taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"JERUSALEM — An influential American commentator<\/strong> has sent shock<\/strong> waves through the Jewish establishment and Washington policy-making circles<\/strong> by breaking<\/strong> a long-standing taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>: He has endorsed the idea of a democratic entity of Jews and Palestinians living with equal rights between the Jordan River<\/a> and the Mediterranean, arguing that a two-state solution — Israel and Palestine — is no longer possible.<\/p>\n

Avey claims that the non-nuclear state\u2019s leaders do not abide by the nuclear taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> while challenging a nuclear-armed adversary.<\/p>\n

And yet Avey, in presenting his main case studies, does not convincingly refute the nuclear taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> counterargument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although Israel has never publicly acknowledged its nuclear arsenal, these weapons were acquired too recently for Israeli decision-makers to have fully internalized the nuclear taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> at the time of the October War.<\/p>\n

It was a sign of just how shaken Israel\u2019s friends have become in an America that is breaking<\/strong> the old taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> on US-Israeli relations<\/strong> and Washington\u2019s permanent acquiescence in Israel\u2019s illegal colonisation of Arab land that even that old artillery-piece Alan Dershowitz<\/a> was trundled out onto his Harvard battlements to take aim at “one of the most biased, poorly informed and historically inaccurate columns about the conflict<\/strong> between Israel and Palestine ever published by a mainstream newspaper”.
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The host of critics, in Israel as well as the US, who now assault the latest taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>–breaking<\/strong> liberal American academic probably do realise just how serious Alexander\u2019s op-ed could turn out to be.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> has accelerated the collapse<\/strong> of taboos<\/span><\/strong> on all issues<\/strong> including Israel’s standing and relations<\/strong> within the U.S. political landscape<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Cold War allowed Israel to play an essential role in U.S. foreign policy, but the diligent and systematic organizing work<\/strong> of AIPAC and American Zionist organizations translated the alliance<\/strong> of convenience into an untouchable taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> in American politics and media discourses.<\/p>\n

The push<\/strong> to commit U.S. troops<\/strong> directly in the Arab world and the move toward military operations in the region is directly connected to the collapse<\/strong> of the political taboos<\/span><\/strong> related to Israel and Zionism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The consequences of direct U.S. military intervention and troop deployment into the battlefields in Iraq<\/a> was the beginning of the cracks in public discourses<\/strong> around Israel and Zionist taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> in politics.<\/p>\n

As long as the debates in the U.S. were confined to AIPAC’s efforts to cement the alliance<\/strong> with Israel, increase foreign aid, provide protection for Israel against international consequences and isolate the Palestinians regionally and globally, then the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and limits in public discourse were maintained.<\/p>\n

However, once the U.S. committed troops<\/strong> and became involved militarily, then all bets were off, whereby discussions and debates regarding Israel and the political taboos<\/span><\/strong> on its role in U.S. foreign and domestic policies were no longer sustainable.<\/p>\n

Initially, it was on the margins of America’s political landscape<\/strong>, but as the military deployment dragged-on and the complexity of the conflicts became apparent, Israel and its lobby were no longer in a position to maintain the political taboos<\/span><\/strong>, which included a split within the ranks of the American Jewish community itself.<\/p>\n

The current realignment in the Democratic Party is a definite indication of the shattering of the political taboos<\/span><\/strong> in relation to Israel and Zionism underway in the country.<\/p>\n

This process started much earlier than the arrival of the 2018 midterm elections and the newly elected class of Democrats, which includes a number that was not only ready to take Israel to task on human rights violations but also to speak on the untouchable taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, namely the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that democratic members in Congress are ready to push<\/strong> back against AIPAC and Israel is evidence of the breaking<\/strong> of the taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong> and a readiness to shift the conversation.
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Trump’s arrival on the political scene and his readiness to break all political, social, racial, gender and cultural taboos<\/span><\/strong> is another critical contributing factor to the shift.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Al-Ghanim criticised normalising ties with Israel, considering it a “political taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

JERUSALEM \u2014 A Palestinian businessman who flouts political taboos<\/span><\/strong> by working with Israeli settlers in the West Bank<\/a> could soon have a role in President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s Middle East peace plan.<\/p>\n

By uttering the word “annexation,” he has shattered yet another taboo<\/strong><\/span><\/strong>, borrowing the unfathomable from the domain of the extreme right wing and inserting it into the heart of the public discourse on the conflict<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The text of this article was generated by the Breaking The Silence<\/a> system that collected 14<\/strong> news articles posted on the web from January 2019 to September 2020 and clustered for the taboo subjects related to Israel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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