Merve Aydogan<\/p>\n
03 June 2026\u2022Update: 03 June 2026<\/p>\n
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declined to give a direct answer Wednesday about whether Israel possesses nuclear weapons, telling lawmakers the topic demands careful handling and is better suited for a \u201cclassified\u201d discussion.<\/p>\n
“Before speaking frankly, I think most of the world assesses that they do, but they’ve never acknowledged that publicly,\u201d Rubio told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n
Rubio acknowledged the sensitivity of the issue, saying “these things require delicate balancing action between different equities,” stopping short of confirming or denying Israel’s nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n
He suggested lawmakers would get a “more fulsome answer” in a setting that was “both classified and sensitive.”<\/p>\n
“It’s a serious question,” said Rubio, noting that Israel’s non-acknowledgment of a nuclear program has long been “a feature of our foreign policy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merve Aydogan 03 June 2026\u2022Update: 03 June 2026 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declined to give a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-474366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}