Rodger A. Payne, a political scientist at the University of Louisville, suggests at The Duck of Minerva that in the wake of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s controversial book on Israeli lobbying power in America, a related taboo topic be discussed openly: Israel’s nuclear-weapons program.
“Part of the reason nobody wants to talk about Israeli nuclear weapons is that any debate would quickly reveal American hypocrisy,” Payne writes. “How can the U.S. put pressure on Iran or North Korea about their proliferation if it turns a blind eye to Israel?”
