The crisis over the
Iranian nuclear aspirations is really quite simple to resolve if there is
political will to resolve it. The issue is not the threat of whether Iran will
use a nuclear bomb against Israel but rather whether Israel will continue its
hegemony over the Middle East, especially over the Palestinians. Additionally, the hypocrisy that the West
adopts visa via Israel and every other Middle Eastern country is overwhelming
to the people of the region. Putting a
little pressure upon Apartheid Israel can solve many of the Middle East
problems.
The belief that Iran
will use a nuclear weapon against Israel as an offensive strategy is
foolish. It is inconceivable that any
country will use a nuclear bomb against another in an offensive manner. President
Harry S. Truman used the nuclear bomb against Japan because he perceived that
an invasion of Japan will result in an excessive amount of US casualties.
Additionally, President Truman used the atomic bomb knowing full well that
there would be no retaliation as no other country had the capability to retaliate
with nuclear power. This is not the case today.
It
is highly unlikely that Iran would strike Israel for several reasons. First, Iran would be committing suicide as
Israel has an enormous nuclear capability to strike Iran back with much more
devastation. Thus it would be suicidal for Iran to strike the first blow. Second, the proximity of millions of Muslims
around Israel, including Iran, would cause such devastation from the atomic
burst that Iran will not benefit strategically within the Muslim world. Third, the proximity of Jerusalem, a holy
site for Muslims, to any potential target within Israel makes striking Israel with
nuclear weapons theologically impractical.
The
hyperbole rhetoric emitting from Apartheid Israeli leaders against Iran is
aimed to deflect news coverage about its apartheid practices against the
Palestinians. To seek the sympathies of
the West, Apartheid Israel falsely portrays itself as a goldfish in a sea of
piranhas. The real fact is that Apartheid Israel is the great white shark in a
small pound of fat cat fishes. As the
only nuclear power in the Middle East, Israel continues its hegemony over the
Middle East with unchecked arrogance. In
1981 and 2007, Apartheid Israel attacked Iraq and Syria, respectively, in an
unprovoked attempt to prevent them from developing nuclear capabilities. Additionally, while the US and the West
demand inspections of North Korea and Iran’s nuclear facilities, nothing is
said about Israel’s nuclear power plants which, according to exports, have
produced hundreds of nuclear weapon warheads.
Apartheid
Israel would like the West and Russia and China, as they are UN Security
Council permanent members, to believe that Iran will use nuclear weapon to
“wipe Israel off the face of the earth.”
In fact, Iranian President Ahmadinejad
never said this statement and this translation is completely wrong. But Israel knows that perception is reality
and putting this perception into minds makes it the “perceived truth”—but this
is not always the “truth”.
President Ahmadinejad, during the speech in which he is
accused of wanting to “wipe Israel off the face of the earth,” used the words
words “rezhim-e
ishghalgar-e qods” which mean “regime
occupying Jerusalem.”
Ahmadinejad was advocating a regime change in Israel. But Apartheid Israel does not want the world
to know this and the American press does not want to investigate Israel in fear
of retaliation from the powerful Israeli lobby. To be fair, this wrong interpretation came not
from Israel but from Iran itself.
However, when Iran tried to correct the wrong terminology, the quote
spiraled out of control. Of course,
Apartheid Israel made this wrongly translated term the center of its propaganda
campaign to deflect coverage of its apartheid practices.
The
West’s domination over the Middle East through its proxy Apartheid Israel and
the support of Arab dictators and kings who repress the people’s human spirit
to be free and democratic continues to make the region unstable. Further, the discrepancy in policy towards
Arab countries and Apartheid Israel leads many in the region to wonder how
America and the West could be so hypocritical.
Apartheid Israel can occupy Palestine for over 40 years and no military
force is sent to remove the occupier.
Yet, Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait could not be tolerated for one day as
the US and Britain rallied the world around Operation Desert Storm in 1990. Apartheid
Israel has imprisoned over 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza and bombed the population
relentlessly in the 2008-2009 onslaught without a whisper from the US and the
West. Yet, the world comes to the aid of
the Libyans during their Arab Spring revolution to oust Muammar Gaddafi. The 1.5 billion Muslims cannot understand why
they are treated different than the 15 million Jews.
What further perplexes many Arabs is that Israel is a
nuclear power that has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
While Pakistan and India have also not signed the Treaty, they have both
publicly stated that they do have nuclear warheads. Israel, on the other hand, has been purposely
deceptive as to its nuclear capability.
India has pledged a no first use policy unless it is attacked by an
adversary using nuclear weapons.
Additionally, India has expressed its commitment to non-proliferation
but stated that it considers the “NPT as a flawed treaty and it did not
recognise [sic] the need for universal, non-discriminatory verification and
treatment." India has cooperated with the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by entering into agreements to inspect its
facilities.
Israel will not cooperate with the IAEA. When called upon to open its
nuclear facilities in September, 2009, Israel’s chief delegate to the IAEA
conference responded “Israel will not co-operate in any matter with this
resolution." Why haven’t Western countries called
upon the UN to impose sanctions against Israel for its refusal to have its
nuclear facilities inspected? Why is
this double standard for Israel tolerated?
Striking a balance between Iran and Israel can be one way to make Iran more
cooperative and to abandon any military component with its nuclear ambitions.
Having Israel submit to inspections of its nuclear capabilities and to make it pledge
a no first use policy similar to India will give assurance to Iran and all
Middle East countries that the West is willing to deal fairly with the people
of the region. Additionally, the West needs to exert pressure on Israel to
resolve Palestinian statehood aspirations by ending decades of occupation.
Failing diplomatic pressure, sanctions upon Israel should be on the table.
Fair dealing in the Middle East is the only thing Arabs want to see.
They do not want the West to adopt a pro-Arab policy. Arabs want a fair policy in the Middle East
that treats every country and every religion equally and with dignity. If this was the policy, the issue with the
Iranian nuclear ambitions would not be an issue. The lack of fairness in Western Middle East
policy, however, is driving the region into another major war. Pressuring Israel to act the way the West demands
Iran to act would solve the Middle East problems.
The
question is whether there is a political
will to pressure Israel?
2/25/2012 update: I just read this article by Allan Hart, author, and found this statement quite interesting to this article:
"From recently de-classified documents we now know that in a memorandum dated 19 July 1969, Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser, warned President Nixon that the Israelis “are probably more likely than any other country to actually use their nuclear weapons.” And as I mentioned in my post of 30 January with the headline Is Israel on the road to “self-destruction”?, Golda Meir said in an interview I did with her for the BBC’s Panorama programme when she was prime minster that in a doomsday situation Israel “would be prepared to take the region and the world down with it.”"
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