Fearing An Islamic Ambush, Netanyahu Cancels Trip To Obama's Nuclear Summit Israeli Premier Cancels Trip to U.S. Nuclear Summit -- New York Times

Fearing An Islamic Ambush, Netanyahu Cancels Trip To Obama's Nuclear Summit Israeli Premier Cancels Trip to U.S. Nuclear Summit -- New York Times

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has canceled his plans to attend the Nuclear Security summit meeting in Washington next week and will send a minister in his place, Israeli and American government officials said Thursday.

The official declined to explain the last minute cancellation. But Israeli news media reported that the prime minister feared that Muslim states were planning on using the occasion to raise the question of Israel's nuclear arsenal. Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear armed power in the Middle East, but it refuses to discuss the issue and has declined to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

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