Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Mark Stapleton]

Do you realize that BG was moving forward anyway? That whatever JFK said and did had NO EFFECT AT ALL on the progress of Dimona?

That you cannot make that connection, seems to me, the reason you maintain your OPINIONs and why Piper is ultimately wrong. JFK was much more interested in Israel than Ike ever was... yes Jophnson was even moreso that JFK... - all I ask is that proper context be included when reaching OPINIONS

I just can't let you get away with nonsense like this David.

Ultimately JFK had no effect on the progress of Dimona because he was killed in November 1963.

He got busy on Israel in March 1963 with NSAM 231 followed by the frank correspondence with Ben-Gurion. By November he was dead. Dimona was far from completed in November 1963.

After BG left office in June 1963, JFK actually stepped up the pressure on his successor Levi Ehkol, piling on four additional conditions under which the inspections be conducted.

The major construction on Dimona occured in the three years after Kennedy's death so he still had plenty of time to pressure Israel into abandoning Dimona. He was a lay down misere to defeat Goldwater in '64.

To make a comment this artfully disingenous and follow it with a patronising lecture about not being able to make connections is very poor form. A real shocker.