Israeli media Haaretz reported that the US government believes all countries in the Middle East should recognize Israel first before asking Zionist authorities to surrender nuclear weapons.
"The Trump Party has taken the position that Israel should not be required to surrender nuclear weapons before all countries in the Middle East recognize the right to exist in the state of Israel," Israeli daily Haaretz quoted an Anadolu Agency as saying on Thursday (3/5).
In 2010, a number of countries in the Middle East signed an agreement. The signatories of this agreement adopted a resolution and called for an international conference to make the Middle East a nuclear free zone. At that time, Israel opposed the agreement.
A number of countries in the Middle East will hold a nuclear non-proliferation conference scheduled for 2020. In the Haaretz report, Israel is not a signatory to the agreement, but Egypt has been actively seeking resolutions in various international forums, "Haaretz .
According to them, the problem of nuclear weapons can not be separated from security problems in the region or from the state of war that exists between Israel and several other countries.
Finland will host and organize events for the conference in 2020. But the Finnish mediator could not form an agreement among potential participants on the conference's mandate.
In 2015, the US, led by Barack Obama, took the position that nuclear weapons surrender can only be done through dialogue with Israel. According to the Washington-based International Institute for Science and Security (ISIS), Israel has produced 115 nuclear warheads since it began manufacturing it in 1963.
The actual number of Israel's nuclear weapons remains a closely guarded secret. Other studies have placed numbers on about 80 warheads that can be propagated.