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IHR News and Comment
A free public service of the Institute for Historical Review
November 26, 2007
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The Middle East's Secretive Nuclear Power
George Monbiot -- The Guardian (Britain)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comme ntisfree/story/0,,2213814,00.html
George Bush and Gordon Brown are right: there should be no nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The risk of a nuclear conflagration could be greater there than anywhere else. Any nation developing them should expect a firm diplomatic response. So when will they impose sanctions on Israel? ... So when will our governments speak up? When will they acknowledge that there is already a nuclear power in the Middle East, and that it presents an existential threat to its neighbours? When will they admit that Iran is not starting a nuclear arms race, but joining one? When will they demand that the rules they impose on Iran should also apply to Israel?
Not only non-proliferation, but eradication of nukes on the face of the planet, should be done.
It should be done as soon as the arab world GUARANTEES peace in the middle east - on pain of some gruesome and lingering death hanging on their collective existence.
Are YOU willing to underwrite such a guarantee, hmmm?
Cut Israel Off
Charley Reese
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/? articleid=11920
It is long past time for American politicians to quit carrying water for the state of Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby. Congress' craven obedience to the lobby is a disgrace. America's strategic interests in the Middle East lie with the Arab countries. Israel is a strategic and economic liability. The U.S. government's slavish support of Israel brands us as a hypocrite and is responsible for most of the hostility toward the U.S.
You want a conflagration of biblical proportions, eh? Nothing can light the fuse of such a thing better than a people pushed against a wall - or make that a sea and a horde of hostile arabs.
Knowledge of a quick and lethal retaliation is the ONLY language even morons understand. It is a sad, unfortunate fact, indeed.