Final_Judgment

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fascinating exchange of letters between the two, in
which Kennedy makes it quite clear to the Israeli prime
minister that he will under no circumstances agree to
Israel becoming a nuclear state.
The book implied that, had Kennedy remained alive,
it is doubtful whether Israel would today have a nuclear
option. Cohen also concludes that BenGurion's
decision to resign in 1963 was taken to a large extent
against the background of the tremendous pressure
that Kennedy was applying on him concerning the
nuclear issue. [Emphasis added by Michael Collins
Piper]
I couldn't put it better myself. Israeli journalist Reuven Pedatzur has
summarized well the explosive revelations that appear in Avner Cohen's
book. If this were a court case, I could rightly say, at this juncture, The
defense rests."
THE LYING LIBRARIANS
But the STDL reviewers weren't just satisfied with quoting Final
Judgment out of context (or with quoting Seymour Hersh out of context).
The librarians actually lied outright when they stated that: "Piper also states
that upon Kennedy's assassination Johnson 'promptly' reversed Kennedy's
stance on Israel's bomb program."
The record documents that the reviewers were lying. On page 59 in
Final Judgment I wrote that Johnson "promptly reversed Kennedy's Middle
East policy ." [Emphasis added here, not in Final Judgment]. I did not say in
Final Judgment, as the reviewers claim, that Johnson "'promptly' reversed
Kennedy's stance on Israel's bomb program."
President Kennedy's stand against Israeli nuclear weapons was only one
of numerous policy positions that were perceived by Israel to be contrary to
its interests and this is documented in Final Judgment. There was much
more to the Kennedy policy on the Middle East than Israel's nuclear bomb
program and Final Judgment makes that perfectly clear, the STDL
reviewers notwithstanding.
This is also verified by the fact that during the secret meeting in mid-
November, described earlier, the nuclear issue was not even discussed.
There were many other issues to discuss. So the STDL reviewers are indeed
the liars that I said they were.
The reviewers also tried to suggest that Lyndon Johnson put as much
pressure on the Israelis to curtail their nuclear bomb program, quoting a
reference from Seymour Hersh. But what they do not point out is what
Hersh also said in his book on page 143 in reference to LBJ's attitude
toward Israel and atomic weapons: