Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has broken a decades-long policy, and admitted that Israel has nuclear weapons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

In an unprecedented move on Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel possessed nuclear weapons.

In an interview with the German television network SAT 1, Olmert was asked about the statement by US defense minister Robert Gates regarding Israel’s nuclear ability.

The prime minister became enraged when he was asked if the fact that Israel possessed nuclear power weakened the West’s position against Iran.
“Israel is a democracy and does not threaten anyone,” he exclaimed. The only thing we have tried to do is to live without (threats of) terror, but we have never threatened anyone with annihilation. Iran explicitly, openly and publicly threatens to wipe Israel off the map.“

Olmert then went on to admit Israel’s nuclear capability.

”Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel and Russia?“ he said, adding that those countries had nuclear weapons but they did not threaten any one with it.

The prime minister said that the difference was that those countries were ”cultured nations” who did not threaten the world’s principles with nuclear destruction.