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they take something that was a point of huge contention between Kennedy and Ben-Gurion and they extrapolate wildly from there. Kennedy did push hard behind the scenes for inspections and restraint in the Israeli nuclear program. Ben-Gurion and others lied about the program being only for peaceful purposes and running a desalinization project etc. But eventually his successors gave in to some less stringent program of inspections but only with a good amount of advance notice.

The French and British had been clandestinely helping the Israeli government up to a point from early on and there were other countries around the world who were involved in supporting the Israeli nuclear program. Norway was one. The French and the British were pretty well understood to be doing this to continue jockeying for influence of one over the other since both had lost their "Mandates" and the French and British influences in North Africa and Egypt in particular were very tenuous.

There is of course much more to the story but trying to lean on the idea that Ben-Gurion would have been "in on" or "directed" the killing of JFK is a stretch into fantasy in my opinion. That doesn't mean that terrorists like Begin were above horrendous killings of police and British officials in Palestine but like the other Israeli terrorists of that time I don't think he had the skills or depth of intellect to pull off something like that.

Basically it is felt that Israel had crude nuclear weapons devices by 1967 and continued to improve from there. More concerning but never really talked about in the media etc. is that Israel continued to develop missile systems and now has missiles that can hit all around the world. The reason that is concerning is that countries and people should be asking themselves "They say their existence is threatened by their neighbors in the region. OK because of violent strikes against you we can understand arming yourself against your neighbors. So why do you need missiles that can hit countries half way around the world from you that you simply have policy disagreements with?" How should countries feel is meant toward the countries around the world by the development of such an expanded reach? What is the message? Those are completely legitimate concerns because it is not rational to think that any nation invests the huge money this takes just for nothing.

"In January 2008, Israel carried out the successful test launch of a long-range, ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead from the reported launch site at the Palmachim Airbase south of Tel Aviv.[165] Israeli radio identified the missile as a Jericho III and the Hebrew YNet news Web site quoted unnamed defense officials as saying the test had been "dramatic"[166][167] and that the new missile can reach "extremely long distances", without elaborating.[168] Soon after the successful test launch, Isaac Ben-Israel, a retired army general and Tel Aviv University professor, told Israeli Channel 2 TV:

Everybody can do the math and understand that the significance is that we can reach with a rocket engine to every point in the world."

These are viable and pertinent questions to ask but loons like MTG hang into these crackpot theories about JFK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Development_history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel#Delivery_systems