Stalin
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perhaps the most outstanding of the many threads of hypocrisy that inhabit the middle east is the pretense that Israel is
a clear and present danger to any muslim county...
"...The current initiative, led by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and supported by more than a score of House Democrats, calls upon Washington openly to discuss Israel’s nuclear doctrine and capabilities in order to “hold Israel to the same standard as other countries and provide transparency on Israel’s nuclear capabilities, ending decades-long ambiguity.”
“We are, in the fullest sense, fighting this war side by side with a country whose potential nuclear weapons program the United States government officially refuses to acknowledge,” the signatories note. “A policy of official ambiguity about the nuclear capabilities of one party to this conflict makes coherent nonproliferation policy in the Middle East impossible. Congress has a constitutional responsibility to be fully informed about the nuclear balance in the Middle East, the risk of escalation by any party to this conflict, and the administration’s planning and contingencies for such scenarios.”
Shining a bright light on Israel’s nukes was certainly not on Washington’s—and certainly not Jerusalem’s—war agenda. Indeed, a quick, complete victory over Iran was meant to secure Israel’s status as the region’s only nuclear power, enabling it to wield strategic influence over a region defined by Ariel Sharon as spanning from North Africa to Pakistan.
Israel’s aspiration to create and maintain a nuclear monopoly over its Arab and Iranian enemies is almost as old as the Jewish state itself. The nuclear program began during the 1950s, led by Ben Gurion and his deputy Shimon Peres in league with the French. A nuclear weapons capability was viewed in Jerusalem as Israel’s ultimate protection against Arab intentions to annihilate the nascent Jewish state and a key instrument of strategic dominance.
In the aftermath of Israel’s tremendous military victories in June 1967, discussion between Washington and Jerusalem, led by the Pentagon official Paul Warnke and Israel’s U.S. ambassador and soon-to-be prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, agreed upon a formula that, despite some American misgivings even then, remains at the heart of U.S.-Israel strategic relations—the formula that Castro and others now want to terminate.
comrade stalin
moscow
a clear and present danger to any muslim county...
"...The current initiative, led by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) and supported by more than a score of House Democrats, calls upon Washington openly to discuss Israel’s nuclear doctrine and capabilities in order to “hold Israel to the same standard as other countries and provide transparency on Israel’s nuclear capabilities, ending decades-long ambiguity.”
“We are, in the fullest sense, fighting this war side by side with a country whose potential nuclear weapons program the United States government officially refuses to acknowledge,” the signatories note. “A policy of official ambiguity about the nuclear capabilities of one party to this conflict makes coherent nonproliferation policy in the Middle East impossible. Congress has a constitutional responsibility to be fully informed about the nuclear balance in the Middle East, the risk of escalation by any party to this conflict, and the administration’s planning and contingencies for such scenarios.”
Shining a bright light on Israel’s nukes was certainly not on Washington’s—and certainly not Jerusalem’s—war agenda. Indeed, a quick, complete victory over Iran was meant to secure Israel’s status as the region’s only nuclear power, enabling it to wield strategic influence over a region defined by Ariel Sharon as spanning from North Africa to Pakistan.
Israel’s aspiration to create and maintain a nuclear monopoly over its Arab and Iranian enemies is almost as old as the Jewish state itself. The nuclear program began during the 1950s, led by Ben Gurion and his deputy Shimon Peres in league with the French. A nuclear weapons capability was viewed in Jerusalem as Israel’s ultimate protection against Arab intentions to annihilate the nascent Jewish state and a key instrument of strategic dominance.
In the aftermath of Israel’s tremendous military victories in June 1967, discussion between Washington and Jerusalem, led by the Pentagon official Paul Warnke and Israel’s U.S. ambassador and soon-to-be prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, agreed upon a formula that, despite some American misgivings even then, remains at the heart of U.S.-Israel strategic relations—the formula that Castro and others now want to terminate.
comrade stalin
moscow
