It is official: Israeli chemical weapons are safe and harmless

"But according to Foreign Policy magazine, a CIA report from 1983 indicates that Israel does indeed have chemical weapons. The report details production facilities for poison gas in the Negev Desert, and says that Israel possesses nerve and mustard gas as well as chemical agents for crowd control - including the appropriate shells." "According to Mideast experts, it's unlikely that pressure will mount for Israel to declare whether or not it has chemical weapons. "I believe that's due to a certain rhetoric," Rachid Ouaissa, with Marburg's Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, told DW. "The kind of international pressure that has been put on Syria will not be applied against Israel." "