Giving away nuclear power
The Fair and Balanced Weasel
US, Israel caught playing hide the nuclear salami
by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
10/12/03
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/Politics/Israelnukes.htm
In one of the most startling developments in the middle east
to date, the London Guardian revealed that the United States has
provided Israel with nuclear missiles that can be launched from their
Dolphin submarines.
This should eliminate any possible doubt that the US and
Israel are complete allies, and any claims that the US is looking for
impartial and fair solutions in the middle east are nothing but
complete crap.
Israel already has nukes, even though they officially deny it.
Two hundred nuclear weapons, according to reliable estimates.
Given that, why is the US so concerned about Iran developing
nukes, and for that matter, why did they take the posture that Iraq
needed to be invaded because they MIGHT develop nukes?
According to the Guardian news story, an American government
source explained, “We tolerate nuclear weapons in Israel for the same
reason we tolerate them in Britain and France. We don't regard Israel
as a threat.”
Israel isn’t a direct threat to the US. But it certainly is
to its neighbors, as witness the program of genocide being conducted
against the Palestinians in the name of “rooting out terrorists” (the
terrorists are doing fine, but thousands of innocent Palestinians are
being subjugated, humiliated, starved, and harassed). Israel attacked
a terrorist camp in Syria last week, claiming it was in response to a
suicide bombing at a popular restaurant a couple of days earlier.
The US and the UN are both working to prevent Iran from
developing a nuclear capability. All they have to do in response is
point to Ariel Sharon and cite self-defense, and the US is going to
have all kinds of fun trying to justify their position.
At least one Islamic nation in the region has both nuclear
weapons and the capacity to deliver them, and that is Pakistan.
Presently, that means that they are a direct threat to nuclear rival
India, since Pakistani military despot Musharraf wants to distract his
country from having an Islamic revolution, and India, a nation
Pakistan has fought four times in the past 60 years, makes a great
outside threat and thus is of major propaganda value.
But Musharraf’s hold on Pakistan remains tenuous, and should
an Islamic revolution or coup occur, Pakistan might decide that
Israel, as a nuclear threat, would be easier to eliminate compared to
the vast India. Ten nukes on Indian cities might kill hundreds of
millions, but leave the country as a whole able to attack and smash
Pakistan. Ten nukes on Israel would finish the place off, due to its
relatively small acreage.
Upping Israel’s nuclear capabilities like that is just part of
the disturbing trend the Putsch regime has taken in regards to nuclear
proliferation. Up until now, it had played the role of threatening to
attack countries that DON’T have nuclear weapons while scurrying from
countries that DO (Iraq as opposed to North Korea), a stance that
convinced the rest of the world that they better nuke up, especially
nations seen as potential targets, which would be all Islamic nations,
Cuba and North Korea, and areas where American corporations have
strong financial interests, which would mean most of central and south
America, and southeast Asian and Pacific Rim nations.
Now it is actively working to increase the nuclear strike
capability of the nation most hated and feared throughout the entire
middle east, a nation that is already facing accusations of genocide.
The days when Israel stood as a bastion of freedom and democracy and
decency are in the past.
While it isn’t probable that Israel is going to suddenly
launch nukes any time in the immediate future, it eliminates any
possibility that the US can continue to pretend to a role of mediator
in the middle east – not unless it decides to share nuclear capability
with the Palestinians, the Syrians, the Lebanese, or the Libyans, and
that doesn’t seem real likely. While any middle eastern belief in the
impartiality of America in their affairs, if it hadn’t already
vanished with the coup by the GOP in 2000, certainly vanished in the
wake of 9/11 and the ascendancy of the “New American Century” cabal,
with their designs to use Israel to impose economic and military
imperialism on the entire middle east.
Additionally, the magazine der Spiegel and Reuters are
reporting that Israel is in the final planning stages toward an attack
on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the fairly immediate future.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/348730.html. Israel got away
with a similar attack against Iraq some 20 years ago, when nukes were
much harder to acquire.
Of course, this sort of news will just increase the efforts of
nations in the middle east to acquire nukes. They don’t need a
sophisticated delivery system. Israel is 7,800 square miles, and 91%
of her six million people live in the major cities. A dozen nukes of
Nagasaki strength would finish the place off.
Given the increasing nuclear proliferation, particularly among
nations with an adversarial stance to either us, or their immediate
neighbors, or both, I got curious and surfed the website of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, home to the famous “doomsday
clock”. They don’t change the clock frequently (17 times in 53 years)
and the most recent was in February of 2002, when they moved the hands
forward to seven minutes to midnight. Over the half century, the
clock has varied from two minutes to midnight in 1953, when both the
US and USSR tested thermonuclear weapons, to as “relaxed” as seventeen
minutes, in 1991, when the USSR collapsed and Yeltsin indicated a
willingness to disarm. Seven minutes till, while not as scary as
times in the 50s and the 80s when world wide nuclear tensions were
extremely high, still represents a higher state of alarm.
And of course, since February 2002, North Korea has announced
that it has achieved nuclear capability (the Bulletin in its May issue
expressed skepticism not only of the range but of the very existence
of the new long-range ballistic missiles NK was supposed to have – a
view shared by the Russians, who would be even less happy than America
to contemplate a nuclear North Korea). Iran is reportedly working on
nuclear capability, but it’s important to remember than many of those
reports come from the administration, which has already shown its
willingness to lie to the American people about such things with Iraq.
And now the United States is taking an active role in beefing
up the nuclear capacity of Israel, a country that, like the United
States, is in the grip of a bellicose and murderous right wing junta.
Nothing good will come of this.
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over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the
syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors
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'A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is
very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle
over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays
without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing
for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic
terrors are an abundant source of gain.'
Anatole France
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Pay your taxes so the rich don't have to.
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