Israel are helping Persian Gulf states to acquire nuclear weapons in order to counter the ‘threat’ Iran poses, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon revealed at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. “We see signs that countries in the Arab world are preparing to acquire nuclear weapons, that they are not willing to sit quietly with Iran on brink of a nuclear or atomic bomb,” Ya’alon told fellow defense ministers on the final day of the Munich Security Conference. RT.com reports: Ya’alon did not name specific countries who might be interested in developing nuclear weapons and gave no evidence to back up his claims. However, he then made a surprise statement that the Gulf states – officially hostile to Tel Aviv because of its occupation of the West Bank – had held clandestine meetings with Israel. “Not only Jordan and Egypt,” he said, referring to the only Arab countries who signed peace treaties with Israel after three Arab-Israeli wars. עם הנסיך הסעודי ושגריר סעודיה לשעבר בוושינגטון טורקי אל-פייסל Meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Turki al-Faisal at Munich pic.twitter.com/HOL96EhJtp — Moshe Bogie Ya’alon (@bogie_yaalon) February 14, 2016 I met today his Majesty the King Abdullah the Second of Jordan, during the security conference in Munich. — [...]