POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"Imagine
a country invading the hypothetical countries of Greenland and Alaska
and then saying they wanted to attack Canada because it has nuclear
capability. What would you expect our leadership to do? Obey the
aggressors and accept their demands we lay down on our backs?"
Indeed.
And further, Iran is surrounded by nuclear powers.
Where
did the notion come from that only certain countries are entitled to
nuclear weapons in perpetuity? Countries who are somehow appointed gods
on earth?
Why was Israel ever allowed to develop nuclear weapons,
breaking every rule in the book? And why is allowed to keep them,
always lying and dissembling but always ready to threaten?
Israel
has certainly created enough division and destruction in the world just
using its conventional weapons, which, by the way, it has used
illegally numberless times, American supplied weapons supposedly being
under strict contract for use only in genuine defense?
Israel's
record in the matter of nuclear arms is ghastly: it cynically helped
apartheid South Africa develop nuclear weapons in exchange for strategic
materials, offering the worst example of proliferation in the nuclear
age.
I'm sure the various governments of the world all knew about it. Only the people were kept in the dark.
Further,
Iran has never started a war in its modern history, unlike Israel who
has attacked just about everyone within reach, twice-over, and screams
every day about the need to attack Iran.
So far as any thoughtful and informed person can tell, Iran is not developing nuclear weapons, but if indeed it is, so what?
The
balance of terror kept the peace in Europe for half a century, and an
Iran with such weapons would provide exactly the same needed balance
against an aggressive and always-demanding Israel.
Perhaps that is the only route to peace, not Israel's bizarre idea of peace, but genuine peace.
