Israel rejects new drive to ban nukes from Mideast

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JERUSALEM, May 30 (AP): Israel, thought to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, has rejected a new UN call to come clean about its secretive nuclear programme, calling it a "deeply flawed and hypocritical" act that ignores the threat posed by its sworn enemy Iran.
Israel declared late Saturday that it would not take part in a 2012 conference on establishing a nuclear-free Middle East - an Arab-led initiative backed by top ally US and the 188 other signatories to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
Although a series of US conditions put the conference in doubt, the resolution, and the surprising US support it received, added new pressure on Israel to give up what is almost universally believed to be a sizable nuclear arsenal. Israel refuses to confirm or deny the suspicions.