Why did Netanyahu duck out of Obama nuclear conference?

Isreal's prime minister has ducked out of a nuclear summit hosted by Barack Obama in fear that Muslim powers will push for his country to disarm.

Benjamin Netanyahu plans to send a deputy to the American President's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington instead.

Netanyahu decided to cancel 'after learning that some countries including Egypt and Turkey plan to say Israel must sign the NPT', an Israeli official said today.

By staying outside the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Israel has avoided having to pledge not to seek nuclear weaponry and to admit international inspectors to its Dimona reactor, widely assumed to have fuelled the region's sole atomic arsenal.

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