Washington’s unprecedented backing for a UN resolution for a nuclear-free Middle East that singles out Israel has both angered and deeply worried the Jewish state although officials are cagey about openly criticising their biggest ally.
The resolution adopted by the United Nations on Friday calls on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and urges it to open its facilities to inspection.
It also calls for a regional conference in 2012 to advance the goal of a nuclear-free Middle East.
Israel is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, with around 200 warheads, but has maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity about its capabilities since the mid-1960s.
This is congruent with everything Obama has done as president and completely out of line with the values of America. If you haven’t wondered yet, you really have to question his agenda and purpose.
This is the problem that arises when a politician with few cultural roots is in charge of things. Though, Mr Emmanuel, who calls himself a Jew, seems to be strangely unaware that Israel’s deterrent is necessary for their continued existence, and that the ambiguity of its existence is an important aspect of it effectiveness.
This guy in the White House is a disaster. 11/2012 cannot come soon enough.
The raw facts are:
ONE – Regardless of all of the ‘good Muslim’ denials, there is an outspoken and many times reiterated intent on the part of a very influential and dominating portion of the Muslim community to destroy the nation of Israel. Their continuing acts of war against Israel give ample testimony to this established fact.
TWO – If they are sucessful in their war against Israel, then it it is reasonable to assume, that without massive outside relief efforts to rescue the Israelis, that the Israelis will be murdered by the anti-Israeli Muslims on a scale that will equal that of the Holocaust of World War TWO.
THREE – If Israel possesses nuclear weapons, she possesses those weapons in order to have a deterrent that will deter those anti-Israeli Muslims who would repeat the Holocaust of World War TWO in Israel.
FOUR – If the anti-Israeli Muslims threat of such a Holocaust becomes imminent and , to all estimates unavoidable, then Israel, in an act of desparate act of self-defense of Old Testament proportions, will wreak cataclysmic nuclear destruction on those who are destroying the Jews of Israel.
FIVE – Those anti-Israelis/anti-Jews who realize these facts desparately want to dismember the Israelis’ last-line-of-defense which is their truly defensive and truly retributive nuclear weapons arsenal.
SIX – Those who oppose the Israeli effort to do what we, the Western nations, did to deter the Soviets during the Cold War are either ignorant, simplisitically naive, or anti-Israeli activists who wish to weaken and destroy the nation of Israel.
Personally I think a lot of our problems can be traced back to us. We (the United States) need to mind our own business. Iran is not a threat to the United States. They may be a threat to Israel. But Israel is not part of the US. Half of the problems we have had since 1945 can be traced to our constant intervention in the affairs of other people.
I think it’s time we pay a little more attention to what’s going on HERE instead of yielding to our apparently insatiable compulsion to stick our nose into every other corner of the word. I don’t like the government of Iran. But as long as they leave us alone, what they do is none of our business.
Israel is quite capable of handling that problem on their own.
#4–There’s no “if” about Israeli nukes.
#5–I have many things in mind , but to get to the point, ” I don’t like the Japanese (or German) govermment, but as long as they leave us alone, what they do is none of my business”. You can invest your treasure against these evil people now, or you can invest your sons later. Sadly, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
Re # 6
David,
[blockquote]Sadly, those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. [/blockquote]
Indeed. Had we stayed out of the First World War, which was none of or business, there would have been no Second World War.
#7 Yup – and you would be fighting in Afghanistan on your own – that is if you weren’t speaking Japanese.
Re #5
Iran is not a threat to the United States.
On the contrary–Iran has armed terrorist groups that have attacked Americans and American installations around the world, and have conducted tests on the Caspian Sea to determined whether it is possible to explode a missile at high altitude (an indication that they are contemplating the possibility of using a nuclear warhead as an EMP weapon against the U.S.). If those aren’t threats, I don’t know what is.
Re # 8
pagemaster
I think you are missing the point. We would not be fighting in Afghanistan at all. You seem to be under the impression that the terrorists of 9-11 attacked us at random as though they woke up one morning and threw darts at a world map to see who they would bomb. They attacked us because we have been meddling in the Middle East since the end of the Second World War and generally with unfortunate results for the people of that part of the world. This in no way excuses their barbaric attack on unarmed civilians. But please don’t act like it occurred in some kind of vacuum.
As for Japan, that might or might not have been an avoidable war. They attacked us essentially for our refusal to supply them with the raw materials they needed for their wars of aggression in China. While I am a moderate isolationist, I don’t feel any compulsion to aid through trade other countries in aggressive war.
In any event your suggestion about us “speaking Japanese” is just silly. Japan might as well have committed ritual suicide on December 7th. They never had a chance in that war. They did not have the means (or population) to invade or occupy the United States. We outclassed them in every respect. Winston Churchill noted in his memoirs that after hearing the news of Pearl Harbor he slept soundly, knowing that whatever else might happen the outcome of the war was no longer in doubt.
Re #9
David,
Like PM you are missing the point. If Iran is hostile to us, it is our own fault. The modern Islamic Republic is America’s bastard child and our gift to the Middle East. I suggest you acquaint yourself with the history of the CIA’s involvement in that country’s history.
As for their testing missiles etc, so did the Russians and the Chinese. Those missiles are aimed at Tel Aviv, not New York. And Israel is more than able to handle this problem themselves or to deter Iranian foolishness. Iran is not suicidal and their military people know exactly what would happen if they ever tried to use a nuclear bomb.
#10 Ad Orientem
Dealing first with Japan and ‘Speaking Japanese’
[blockquote]As for Japan, that might or might not have been an avoidable war. They attacked us essentially for our refusal to supply them with the raw materials they needed for their wars of aggression in China. While I am a moderate isolationist, I don’t feel any compulsion to aid through trade other countries in aggressive war.[/blockquote]
Japan had been in a militarist expansionist mood since the turn of the century. The war in the Far East was nothing new, Japan had been at war with Russia and then saw advantage in not only taking over Korea, but also China with its crumbling empire. It was as you say in part due to access to raw materials. Then the ’30’s saw the expansion into Manchuria and the formation of Manchukuo.
All of the Western nations were seen as a limitation to Japan’s territorial ambitions for a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity sphere, or empire. It is possible that if you had just handed over the Philippines and Hawaii, and probably the Pacific Trust Territories, that you might have bought a few more years, but with the attacks on Singapore and Hong Kong and then the war in Asia into Burma and India Japan would not have stopped until it reached the oil fields of the Middle East.
With the US not entering the war in Europe, then probably Britain and the remainder of Europe would have been German, and the Germans would have then swept through Russia and met the Japanese. India and the European empires would have either struggled perhaps looking to the US or Canada, or surrendered to the Axis powers.
The US would then have been completely surrounded with no access to trade outside the American Continent, and with the oil fields of Iran and the Middle East under the control of the Axis powers, you would have been starved of oil, imported raw materials and trade.
With the combined Axis powers in control of the land mass across the Bering Straights the US would have either have had to reach an accomodation with the Axis powers with extreme pliability or alternatively have faced the possibility of invasion from a force with the combined armies of Europe and Asia at its disposal and limitless raw materials. Not having been involved in the war in Europe, the Atomic bomb program would probably have never got off the ground in the US, but the Germans would have had the bomb, and the long range missiles to use it.
Even if you were not invaded and had to speak Japanese, it and German would be the languages of international trade, such as it would be and you would probably need to learn it anyway.
Such would quite likely have been the effect of pursuing isolationism in a Global total war.
[blockquote]You seem to be under the impression that the terrorists of 9-11 attacked us at random as though they woke up one morning and threw darts at a world map to see who they would bomb. They attacked us because we have been meddling in the Middle East since the end of the Second World War[/blockquote]
Not quite so simple. Ever since the early part of the 20th Century, the Middle East, and in particular the countries around the Persian Gulf have been vital for Western interests due to the oil they contain. Until the Second World War, the British took an interest in this strategic area, and maintained military bases and political interests based on treaties and other arrangements with the countries involved which had been created out of the collapsed Turkish empire. After WWII Britain started to withdraw from the Far and Middle East, firstly because of financial strains and secondly because of the policy of the US to whom we were in hock to force decolonisation. This left a vacuum in the 1960’s. Certainly the US tried to step into the breach and excercise influence in Iran, with debatable degrees of ept, but had the US not done so, it is likely that the increasing political nationalism of the area would have denied oil to the US and the West, or exacted a price which would have impoverished it much earlier than the early 1970’s.
Of course had the US not entered the world wars, this would not have been a problem as the area would have been run by Turkey, Germany and Japan, although the US would not have seen any of the oil which would have been directed towards the continuing war effort to take over the American mainland.
Not entering into the European wars would have bought the US a few more years but the likelyhood is that you would have had to deal with the problem of the Axis powers at some point or other, and the longer it was left, the more risky for the US.
For me, I am very glad that the US did indeed come to our aid, and grateful for the efforts and sacrifice of so many from the US and Canada, to keep us free, and to honor their memory, with thanks.