Jonas E. Alexis: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop

Worrying and Love the Israeli Bomb! "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets". Matthew 7:12. In the summer of 2012, Netanyahu declared in the Jerusalem Post, that Iran "must cease all uranium enrichment in the country, that it transfer all enriched uranium out of the country, and that it disassemble its underground nuclear facilities." Two years earlier, when talks began to circulate that the Middle East must be free of nuclear weapons, Benjamin Netanyahu tried to block any practical measures on Israel's nuclear programs. Of course, as usual, the US yielded to Israel's command: "The US administration announced after the conference ended late last week, that it would not support an international conference on a nuclear weapon free Middle East, without coordinating with Israel. Israel said Saturday that it has no intention to fulfill the decision of the Review Conference to the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty), which calls on it to allow international inspection at its nuclear installations." A statement from the Prime Minister's bureau declared in part: "The real problem with weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East does not relate to Israel, but to those countries that have signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and brazenly violated it: Iraq under Saddam, Libya, Syria and Iran." Even by December 2012, the UN asked Israel for just an inspection of its nuclear weapons, which is consistent with the Non Proliferation Treaty, but Israel again refused to do so. In other words, every country in the Middle East should be free of weapons of mass destruction, but Israel, because of course, they have no bad intentions. What was even more hilarious, was that neither Bush nor Obama "foresaw" that this would create problems with the Muslims in the Middle East. Israeli philosopher and historian Avner Cohen bluntly stated, "Were we to believe in mutual nuclear deterrence, we would be able to see that a nuclear Iran is something that can be lived with." Despite all this, the United States continues to offer blind support to Israel. One hour after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Obama, in the middle of a series of conflicts between US and Israel, the Obama administration released a message defending Israel's nuclear installations, and saying that "only Israel can determine its security needs."