The speech - the Russian media write - has received the greatest applause in the Capitol since the Republicans obtained both houses of Congress. President Obama, on the other hand, was less enthusiastic.
Coincidence or not, Netanyahu's speech coincided with the Pentagon's decision to declassify a top-secret document.
Despite warnings about a "nuclear Middle East", in the Region there would already be a country with this technology and it would be Israel. The 386 report, entitled "Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations", dates back to the 1987 and reveals important details about Israel's nuclear program that the country never admitted to owning.
"Israel is able to develop the codes that will allow them to build hydrogen bombs. Codes behind the processes of fission and fusion at the microscopic and macroscopic level."
Indeed, the report speaks of a parallelism between Israeli and American nuclear capacity.
"As far as nuclear technology is concerned (we are in the 1987), the Israelis have achieved the fission skills like that of the United States in the sixties."
According to the Pentagon document, Israel would have already had nuclear capabilities by the time the Americans tested their first hydrogen bomb.
The coincidence of the publication of the document is certainly suspect. It was originally requested three years ago by an American journalist appealing to the Freedom of Information Act. A subsequent judgment by a district judge ordered the Department of Defense to publish the deed.
It is also interesting to note that while the declassified document has revealed key aspects of the Israeli nuclear program, the Pentagon has taken care to maintain the nuclear progress of other allied countries including France, Italy and West Germany.
In September, 2012, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a famous illustration shown during his speech at the 67 session of the UN General Assembly, described his fears for Iran's nuclear ambitions. At the time, the Israeli prime minister called for a hard line against Iran, fearing the risk of nuclear war in the region.
Franco Iacch
(photo: US House of Representatives)
