Wait, Why is Israel allowed to have nukes?
Please read Alex Skopic's important article in Current Affairs
Donald Trump is increasingly hinting at the U.S. joining Israel's war on Iran — an objective that Israeli and American war hawks have never given up in 30 years of fear mongering and lying about Iran's nuclear capabilities. The Europeans assess that Iran has no nukes. Decades of American national security assessments confirm this. His own security advisor, Tulsi Gabbard, agrees. Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
For years Israel has tried to push the U.S. into entering a war provoked by its repeated bombings of Iran. It worked last time in Iraq. But not long ago Iran served notice that it is going to fight back. And fight back it did.
Although Israel has every military edge and technology that the United States can provide it (at massive U.S. taxpayer expense), Iran is systematically depleting Israel's stores of anti-missile batteries and has supersonic missile technology that is impossible to completely intercept. To make their point, Iran bombed Netanyahu's house in Caesaria. Iran has managed to hit Israeli military and industrial targets, and it will launch even more missiles if Israel carries out its threat to assassinate Iran's Ayatollah.
Assuming Israel cannot rein in the extremists that have been running the show to-date, Iran will have no choice but to respond to Israel's decapitation strikes and all hell will break loose. In the conflagration that will surely follow Israel could suffer significant casualties, which might lead its extremists to make it the first nation in the Middle East to deploy nuclear weapons on its neighbors.
This scenario is not all that far-fetched.
Of course none of this could happen without the complicity and connivance of the United States, where politicians of both parties endlessly recite the hollow phrase, "Israel has the right to defend itself" and never fail to pass defense authorizations in U.S. budgets which — on top of Israel's multi-billion dollar "allowance" from the U.S. — always provide earmarks for shared military technology with Israel, as if it were the 51st state. In Biden's last budget, for instance, there were numerous line items for in-flight refueling technology, which Israel recently used for its mass-bombings of Iran.
According to Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution only Congress has the right to declare war. But unfortunately we now have a president who violates laws like the rest of us drink water. Trump recently thumbed his nose at the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids using U.S. troops to police American citizens. According to 18 U.S. Code § 1385, Trump's use of the Marines last week really ought to be punished by two years in prison. We are now in dictator territory. But who’s going to stop him from signing off on world war before it’s too late?
So now Trump sits in the White House, having promised to let the world know within two weeks of his decision to launch WW III — or maybe not. What will the mad emperor do? Will the U.S. jump in to fight Israel's war on Iran, or will "we" sit this one out? Stay tuned for next week's episode of the highest rated reality show on the planet — that is, while we still have a planet.
No one seems to be asking why it's acceptable for Israel to have an arsenal of an estimated 300+ nukes. Israel's genocidal regime, which has bombed virtually every one of its neighbors, truly ought to have its nuclear capability removed before it does something else rash and disproportionate with it.
Israel’s extremist regime was attacked and lost over 780 civilians to Hamas (and even more through "friendly fire"). Israel’s over-the-top response was to completely destroy Gaza, much of the West Bank (which was not involved in the Hamas attack), to launch a genocide of now well over 55,000 people, starve and shoot the survivors, and openly discuss plans (in concert with the U.S.) to "transport" every remaining Palestinian to Libya, elsewhere in Africa, or have Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt take them. Israeli ministers have openly and repeatedly called for using nuclear weapons on Gaza.
It is the understatement of all understatements to call Israel an unstable, murderous regime, armed to the teeth with weapons it’s just aching to use.
If the U.S. really wants to ensure world peace — instead of simply being an accomplice to a rogue state remarkably like it — it must get Israel under control and remove every last nuke from the Middle East. But there's only one country that actually has them — and that’s Israel.
SEMA urges everyone to read an important article by Alex Skopic in Current Affairs. Skopic’s piece, Wait, Why Is Israel Allowed To Have Nukes? makes many of the same points we have and explains why, right now, Israel — and not Iran — is the most dangerous regime in the Middle East, if not the world.
