A group of Greenpeace activists stripped off their clothes Thursday afternoon at Tel Aviv University shortly before President Shimon Peres began a speech at a conference on nuclear arms. The activists had painted radiation symbols on their stomachs and called on those present to “strip the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction.” Activists said they were protesting because no speakers at the conference doubted Israel’s need for nuclear weapons.
Peres joked about the strippers, saying “I think we should turn down the air conditioning in here, I was concerned for their health.” On a more serious note, Peres said that the activists should “hold the protests in Teheran, not in Tel Aviv.”