miltiades wrote:Kikapu , my dear friend , If Israel was facing extinction from hostile nations and if the only weapon that could save its people from total annihilation was nuclear your guess as to whether it would use it or not is as good as mine.
There is a massive difference in Iran , Iraq , Syria or any other ME nation possessing nuclear weapons and Israel .
All of these nations are dictatorships bar Iraq that is in chaos as a result of the fanatic religious zealots hell bent on destroying their country and you know what , good luck to them. Until the 323 million Arabs and the 68 million Iranians accept that Israel , like any other nation , has a right to exist Israel will continue to have the upper hand and the destructive weapon monopoly possession. That is reality .
I also wonder what is the reason why almost 400 million people cant accept 6 million to live peacefuly in that region.Could religion have anything to do with it , any suggestions from any one ?
The whole Middle East is against Israel, partly to do with religion, but also years of injustices done to the Palestinians and Arabs since the formation of the State of Israel in 1948. Had the US and UK at the same time formed a Palestinian State, to live side by side with Israel and given aid, I do not think we would be having the problems we're having today. Today we have the so called "road map" which is nothing more than a joke and a insult to the Palestinians, because it will never achieve a Palestinian State, because Israel needs to keep the Palestinian land they have already stolen, and want's to keep the option to take more land in the future.
Pakistan, China, North Korea, are not a Democracy, and Russia is hardly a Democracy, but they have the "Nukes". Do you lose sleep by knowing this. I don't, because, all these Nations know, that if they ever decided to push the "Nuke" button, they will infact be committing suicide. Individuals commit suicide, not Nations, unless they are cornered like a wild animal, and they don't have anything to lose by pusing the "Nuke" button. So lets not put other Nations in the "corner" and work with them instead. Iran has the right to develop Nuclear Energy, and with that right, they will no doubt will explore and advance their knowlede in building Nuclear weapons, it is "the nature of the beast".
Countries in the Middle East who have the oil, by and large is their only commodity to sell to generate income to their nation, so why would they hold back the oil. There are times, the West imposses sanctions on other nations for what ever reason, so the oil producing countries have the same right to reduce or increase their production, that serve their purpose. This should not give the right for us to tell them what to do or worse use force against them, just because you want to fill up your car with petrol (Miltiades).
If the West had a good working relationship with others in the Middle East, respecting their culture and customs, including not being able to buy alcohol (Miltiades), then there would be no worry as to them hating us. The push by the West to impose our values on them, is nothing more than to increase our products on them, which boils down to MONEY, and not so much about their Democratic Rights.
