Doctor Ephraim Ascolai, who served for 40 years on Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, said, Sunday, that there's no legal basis for demands by Syria and Iran that Israel sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, noting that the countries that violated the treaty are the ones who have signed it. Interviewed on Arutz Sheva's Hebrew journal, he said that as long as Israel has not signed the document, the only purpose of the demand is divert attention from problems in those countries.
Doctor Ascolai said Israel has repeatedly claimed that signing the treaty is dependent on regional security and that it won't have a problem signing when there's regional peace, but as long as the situation is shaky and there are neighbors who refuse to speak to it, there's no point in Israel agreeing. Despite a recent disclosure about the start of Israel's nuclear facility in Dimona, he said that any change from Israel's policy of ambiguity - neither denying or confirming the presence of a nuclear arsenal - will only harm the Jewish state.