Those who follow the Israeli media will see the nation’s government afraid of a myriad of things. Today, as it so often does, attention turns to Iran’s nuclear program, but with a different spin than usual.
Now, Israeli officials aren’t just scared that Iran might make a nuclear weapon, they are scared that Iran will copy their formula of “nuclear ambiguity” and not tell anybody about it. Military officials say that possibility “is growing.”
Of course this would be entirely impractical for a few reasons, not the least of which is that Iran, unlike Israel, is a member in good standing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and lets inspectors survey their civilian enrichment program.
Even putting this fairly big difference aside, the reality of the matter is that Israel’s “nuclear ambiguity” isn’t working. Everyone knows Israel has nuclear weapons, and even if their government doesn’t officially admit it even top Israeli officials will “slip” from time to time and mention the nukes.
In practice Israel’s policy only works because US officials simply don’t care that Israel has a massive nuclear arsenal, and works hard to keep the international community from calling them on it. Iran has no such built in protection, and would be caught instantly if they tried to behave like Israel does.
Careful Mr. Ditz, you're bordering on dangerous "antiSemitic" thin ice here. Abe Foxman will be screaming bloody murder at the merest mention of Israeli nukes. Besides, we all know that the first time the Israelis nuke Amman, Jordan they'll blame the Palestinians and Congress will threaten to withhold further funding to the PA AND Peter King will demand congressional oversight for the next round of future funding to terrorist states that refuse to surrender to war's madness. Yup.
With more than 400 nuclear warheads, Israel could destroy the entire planet. But wait, Israel is a democracy ™ so all's well, folks. Nothing to see here. Move along now.
I think Israels greatest fear is that Iran will do as it keeps threatening to do – wipe out the state of Israel or as they refer to it "cancerous tumor". Iranians are religous fanatics – we saw what religous fanatics can do with just a few airplans, are we are we really OK with them getting a nuclear bomb?
Avi -Israel with all its alleged nukes have yet to do anything with them. Certaintly has not threatened its surrounding countries….. I would say partly because it is a democracy and actually values life as apposed to its neigbors who still live in teh middle ages.
So when precisely did Iran threaten to "wipe out Israel?" I assume you're a Farsi speaker, or are you just requoting someone else's convenient mistranslation of Akhmadhinejad's remarks?
Isreal has not "threatened" its surrounding coutries, it has invaded them, bombed them and occupied their land. I'll take threats to Isreali conduct.
And they threatened to nuke Cairo when Egypt was trying to drive them out of their country during the Yom Kippur War.
You mean that Israel's greatest fear is that Iran does what Israel does, don't ya?
!Israel's nuclear ambiguity is a fraud on American taxpayers. If there were to be a finding that Israel had WMDs then it would be illegal for it to get the billions of aid that the President and Congress shovel to Tel Aviv every year. Their leaders and our leaders lie as a way of life to defraud the working men and women of America of the fruits of their labor. That is what it is all about. It is not a diplomatic or military matter.
Of course if the lie becomes untenable the law will be changed. After all, can anyone doubt since the murderous attack on the USS Liberty that American lives are meaningless when compared to the comfort and convenience of racist Zionists. Helots had it better in Sparta than White Christians do in America where up is down, hot is cold and any other absurdity must be accepted that amuses our overlords.
Israel already got an exemption to the law that said foreign "aid" can't be used to finance direct competitors that attack US economic interests. They steal our technology then are subsidized by US taxpayers to market their ripoffs to our enemies.
"Caught instantly if they tried to behave like Israel does." Isn't it more like they were 'caught instantly' acting the way any responsible nation developing nuclear power sources should act?
The difference arises in the 'treatment' after the 'catching' and the fact that the West has been obstructive in the development of Iran's nuclear potential. You can't say that about Israel or Dimona – the West assisted and has never sanctioned nuclear-armed Israel.
Personally, I believe the Islamic Republic of Iran already has nuclear
warheads capable of reaching the Zionist State. They purchased them
during the fall of the Soviet Union, and from Pakistan a long time ago.
It would be interesting if they did and nuked Tel Aviv if the Israeli Air Force starts bombing their country as an act of self-defense. We would see the US using nukes in an illegal aggressive war that would make us a pariah nation. Not that we aren't getting their on our own by running the most oppressive regimes in the world.
The Israeli propaganda machine is a little behind the times, it's Pakistan's turn to be Nemesis Du Jour. Get with the program guys.
Usually there are a lot more Mossad activists replying by now.
No kidding! That's exactly it. Israel is trying to prevent Iran from doing exactly the same thing they do.
Israel is running out of water. The stupid government of Israel has successfully got the Turkey's government involved so they Israel can forget running up and stealing the water of the Latavia river. This will also remove the ability to steal the natural gas fields off the Lebanon's coast. At the Camp david agreement Israel agreed to have the USA Military to save the cost of protecting its southern border. The USA military makes it difficult to attack and steal the water of the nile. "difficult" only to the ability to pull off a much bigger USS LIberty run over of the US Military. Gaza has a high water table but killing off all the arabs is not working very well. In the North they planted over 60 years billions of trees which should never have been planted. These trees have created a fire danger and an change in the flow of the ground water. They are presently attempting to displace the wondering arabs so they can gain contol of a few major water locations but the problem with wondering tribes tis they just move and then become a problem someplace else. They can knock down the houses of the Palestinians in Jerusalem but the wondering arabs just put up the camps and collect welfare. It is expensive to keep them alive and Israel would like them to leave but they know they can collect benefits from the israel government and they are having large number of babies. Whagt were the smart Jewish people thinking when they followed churchill. Churchill is a man who had never own
anything in his life and destroyed a thousand years empire in his lifetime. Israel need to find a way to make peace because unless they can drink nuclear weapons they are going to have major problems. They can blow up all the nighbors and only destroy more of needed water.
Israel never signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Teller himself made them never sign it.
Oh wait, you actually said Iran was a good member of the NPT. I was confused by your godly lack of irony. The only thing to say to that is that if you threaten to ethnically cleanse another nuclear state you deserve everything that you get.
I actually feel Iran could be using nuclear ambiguity in a different way.
Is Iran developing nuclear weapons or are they not?
That kind of ambiguity might make more sense and is cheaper than keeping a stock pile. Furthermore the US and Israel will create the ambiguity themselves cause they won't believe inspectors and their very own intelligence.