An Ominous Double Standard

Anybody who fails to see the double standard at work here is either stupid, delusional or so partisan as to be unapproachable. Whether you like how Israel was carved out of other people's lands or not, the fact remains that as long as the Israelis possess nuclear weaponry, others in the region will want to do so as well.

Please don't tell me that the Israelis are better equipped to handle the doomsday weapons because Israel is a democracy. The biggest democracy in the world is thus far the only nation to have actually used nuclear weapons, so we know that the form of government means little or nothing.

The 800-pound gorilla in the room, naked as can be, is the Israeli nuclear stockpile. The hypocrisy of the West in supporting nukes in Israel while condemning nukes in other nations in the region is astounding, insupportable and the Iranians are laughing, as are the North Koreans.

Iran over its nuclear program, Israel continues to maintain a not-so-secret nuclear.

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When the lunatics who invented israel by ethnically cleansing Palestine are tried in the Hague and the colonial experiment of zionism is thoroughly expunged from this world then we can reasonably expect Iran not to have Nukes. But obviously as long as racist jews in Israel and the U.S have their sweaty fingers on the trigger countries like Iran need them as well to keep the lunatics at bay.
We can't have these nut jobs Slavic Europeans strutting around terrorizing the world and continuing to illegally occupy the country of Palestine.
israel is dying anyway. Best to just let it completely sputter out and let world peace spring forth again.
80 percent of Europeans polled cited israel as the biggest stumbling block to world peace.
The world will breathe a collective sigh of relief when the last holdover from old world colonialism is finally put to rest.

I am trying to find out the international penalty for the unilateral deployment of a nuclear warhead. Any suggestions as to where I should look?

While I understand the "surgeon and plumber" analogy one person made, I am still perplexed. If the goal of nuclear proliferation is to rid the world of Nukes, why is Israel allowed to stockpile. How can you tell one country not to have nukes when their rival is allowed to build away??? It only gives them a political excuse, and a motive, to seek out nuclear capability. If Israel wants U.S. support then they should stop building nukes as well. If Iran ever nuked Israel, we'd nuke them in about 2 minutes. So Israel having nukes really doesn't do much. The only advantage I can see is that it gives us (the U.S.) a closer nuclear launch point from which to hit economic rivals like China, Russia, or even the E.U. if need be, giving us a tactical advantage over the other western nations.

Also, did I really see in the video that Israel has a "patented" laser system for enriching Uranium? I wonder what agency makes sure countries to infringe on other countries nuclear arsenal patents.....

Hear hear! This is completely a double standard. Whilst on the topic I have some MORE double standards to point out!!!

Police men! yeah police men dammit! Those guys get to walk around public with guns! Criminals should be allowed to as well!

Surgeons! yeah surgeons dammit! Those guys get to cut people open.....no fair! Plumbers and construction workers should get to do that too!!

See where I'm going with this.....you cannot equate the two it is lunacy.

I find it funny that people of this world has such a hard time living amongst different cultures.....
Why must we all the time 'claim land ours'? - It is here for all.
Why must we always fight by using religion? - Religion is a personal view on life and should not be forced onto others.

And I find it strange that the US and UN has decided to play world police, and does not let any other country than their own have nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons should be banned for all.

Maybe it is our destiny - to destroy this planet and everybody on it.
This is the direction in which we are going at the moment, and this will not stop until every man admits that he was wrong and noone was right.

Israel could have made peace with all it's neighbours since a long time as de facto it has been recognized by the majority of the arab states.
But unfortunately it has chosen the wrong way by stealing more and more land in the occupied territories and sending crazy ass settlers there...

Forget about the "crazy Arabs" and just go and read the ideology of these highly civilized zionists, the list is long but check out these statements and see their logic:

"Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine,Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry.

"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance. So it's simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our whole policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipes us out".(The Jewish Paradox by Nahum Goldman, p. 99)

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
-- David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."-- David Ben Gurion, quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.

"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population." Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum"

"We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours." Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.

"The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple."
-- Yitzhak Shamir, Maariv, 02/21/1997.

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them." Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.

"One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." -- Rabbi Yaacov Perrin, Feb. 27, 1994 [Source: N.Y. Times, Feb. 28, 1994, p. 1]

Isreal is a theocracy, a Jewish state. The national flag bears the Star of David. Sure, there are elections, but there are millions of non-Jews who live in Isreal, including the Palistinians whose territory is constantly being absorbed by illegal settlements. I want to feel sympathetic toward Isreal. It should survive. But it cannot survive by subjugating others.

Some of the anti-israel stuff I'm hearing on here is shocking. Do your research. Israel has and will always be the homeland for the Jews. Zionism is not a new thing or something that came about after the holocaust. In fact, the first waves of mass Jewish immigration in RECENT history, Jews were kicked out and have returned to zion many times throughout the ages, was in the late 1800's., well before hitler.

Israel has NEVER launched a preemptive strike on any nation. Their army is called the Israeli DEFENSE force. It is not in place to nuke arab countries. THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT. It's for their own protection and judging by the actions of Iran's maniacle leader and his nuclear aspirations, Israel needs all the weapons is can get it's hands on, FOR DEFENSIVE PURPOSES.

Judaism was around BEFORE islam and christianity. It is from the old testament, otherwise known as the Torah, where you even derive your religions from. JESUS WAS JEWISH! HE WAS A RABBI from bethlehem, a town in the west bank. Jews are the children of zion, aka present day israel, and this is where they belong. There has never been a time when Jews didn't live in Jerusalem.

THESE ARE FACTS PEOPLE! DON"T GET SUCKED IN BY THESE LIES.
SALAM SHALOM PEACE