In October 1956, Israel, with Britain and France, attacked Egypt to take control of the Suez Canal. But the then Israel envoy Abba Eban never gave any hint of the impending attack to US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who had grilled the envoy just a day before about Israel's military build-up on the border with Egypt.

In June 1967, Israel started the Six-Day War without informing Washington, despite President Johnson's insistence that Israel consult with him before taking action.

On June 7, 1981, Israel never informed the US when it destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak just before it was to be fuelled to develop the capacity to make nuclear weapons-grade plutonium.

The then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin had called the attack 'a precedent for every future government in Israel... Every future Israeli prime minister will act, in similar circumstances, in the same way,' the newspaper said.

Again in September 2007, Israeli aircraft destroyed a North Korean-supplied plutonium reactor in Al Kibar, Syria, without informing the US.

These episodes demonstrate that if Israel sees Iranian nuclear weapons an existential threat 'it will be deaf to entreaties from US officials to refrain from using military force', the newspaper said.