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The secrets of the Israeli nuclear arsenal The satellite images show Israel that it is expanding the nuclear site of Dimona, used in the past for the production of nuclear weapons. New satellite images have revealed that Israel is expanding the Dimona nuclear plant in the Negev desert, where it has previously produced fissile material used for nuclear weapons. Images released Thursday by the International Panel on Fissile Material (IPFM), an independent group, showed that construction work is underway for a major expansion. Construction is apparently taking place at the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, a few hundred meters southwest of the domed reactor building, and is "centered around a large-scale excavation area, with the dimensions of about 140 meters by 50 meters ", according to the IPFM. It is unclear when construction began, but Pavel Podvig, an IPFM researcher, told The Guardian newspaper: "It looks like construction started in early 2019, or late 2018, so it's been underway for about two years. No comments were made by the Israeli embassy in Washington, and no comments were made by the Israeli government. According to estimates by the Federation of American Scientists, Israel has about 90 nuclear warheads based on plutonium, produced in the heavy water reactor of the Dimona nuclear plant. The Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center was built in 1958, in secret, with the help of the French government and without the inspection of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Dimona site, and most of Israel's nuclear weapons activities, remained shrouded in secrecy until 1986, when Mordechai Vanunu, a former Dimona technician fled to the UK, and revealed the existence of the nuclear weapons program. arms to the British Sunday Times. Vanunu was subsequently kidnapped in Italy by Israeli intelligence agents, and sentenced to 18 years in prison for treason and espionage in a secret trial. He spent eleven of those years in solitary confinement. Israel is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). We constantly witness the aggression that is being made against Iran, which is accused by Israel of wanting to equip itself with the atomic bomb and, in all this anti-Iranian rhetoric, we see the hypocrisy of the Israelis, who claim to have the atomic, and ask that their neighbors do not have them. With what right and authority can Israel condemn Iran when it is the first to have a massive nuclear arsenal? Why can't Iran have nuclear weapons while Israel does? Inspectors must be able to enter Iranian plants, under penalty of sanctions and boycotts, while Israel has developed in the past, and still continues to do so today, its nuclear program without anyone demanding controls over what the Israeli state has done. Why two weights and two measures? Could it be that there is a latent underlying racism, which would like whites to be granted what is not granted to non-whites, such as African or Middle Eastern peoples, and therefore continue to perpetuate the alleged superiority of whites over the rest of the world? History is full of crimes perpetrated by Western peoples, it is time to put an end to any form of racism, especially the most dangerous one, which places whites above other races. If we want to have a future, it is time to put us all on an equal footing, and stop playing double standards, masking the underlying racism, which wants Israel to have nuclear weapons, while Iran cannot.