Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has claimed that there is a secret agreement between the United States and Israel aimed at maintaining Israel’s nuclear ambiguity indefinitely.
“The agreement promises that Israel will never talk about nuclear weapons even after centuries, while the United States promises to remain silent,” he said in a television interview with Egypt’s Sada el-Balad channel published on Sunday.
The former Egyptian foreign minister accused the United States of deceiving Arab countries, recalling the US’s assurances that if Egypt ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it would put pressure on Israel to follow suit.
“That pressure never materialized,” he said. Abul Gheit argued that Israel remains “protected by the dominant military and political pole that has dominated the world since the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
He has consistently advocated for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, insisting that Cairo is deliberately avoiding its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and stressing that “Egypt does not recognize the need for a nuclear deterrent.”
Abul Gheit warned that inspections of Israel’s nuclear facilities could become “inevitable,” noting that “Israel was not even able to use nuclear weapons during the 1973 war,” and warned that continued U.S. protection risked an “existential crisis.”