Peres: Ambiguity Has Achieved Its Goal

What crosses your mind when you read that headline?

Was Peres talking about Israeli policy during the past year--that Kadima and Olmert leadership was really just a test?

• Something to get the Palestinian Arabs just where we want them?
• A strategy to neutralize US pressure?
• A plan to confuse Kofi Annan?
• A way to get Europe to see things from Israel's perspective?

Nah. Peres said ambiguity, not appeasement.

Vice Premier Shimon Peres, credited for creating Israel's nuclear program and its policy of nuclear ambiguity, told a reporter in Paris on Tuesday that Israel's nuclear option had achieved its goal of deterring its enemies.

Speaking after a meeting with French Socialist Party presidential candidate Segolene Royal, Peres was responding to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statement on Monday to German television about Iran "working to get nuclear weapons like the US, France, Israel and Russia."

Peres praised Israel's nuclear program and said that Olmert had not said what was attributed to him.

"We didn't build a nuclear option in order to create a nuclear bomb," Peres said. "The very suspicion that we have one is enough. It's intended for deterrence and it has achieved its goal."

It has achieved its goal

I'm sure Israel will sleep better...

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