AIPAC, Israel, and the United States, oh my

In further addressing Israel’s nuclear capabilities, it will frighten you to read, “Israel has for years successfully skirted international nuclear safeguards and has come to develop a robust nuclear capability and the weapon systemsnecessary to hold at risk most of the countries in the Middle East. The Negev Nuclear Research Center, located about 10 kilometers southeast of Dimona, is at the heart of the Israeli nuclear program.”

There is pure lunacy on Israel’s part, when one reads, “Israel is by now the only nuclear weapons state that does not acknowledge the fact that it possesses nuclear weapons.” Yet we allow for them this deniability.  No one in Washington is holding their feet to the fire as we have done with Iran and North Korea.

A while back Israel’s Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert got into a bit of trouble with the slip of the tongue that Israel did in fact have nuclear weapons. I found this passage very note worthy, “Since 1969, the United States has accepted Israel's status as a nuclear power and not pressed it to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which subjects its adherents to inspections and sanctions aimed at stopping the spread of weapons.” Why is Israel being treated differently than countries such as Iraq, Iran and even North Korea?  Could it be AIPAC’s influence over our government?  You be the judge.

When this slip of the tongue by Olmert was first reported, I did write of it in this article, Note to Prime Minister Olmert: We already knew that Israel had a nuclear stockpile. Interestingly enough, when I clicked on the link that formed my editorial, the originating article is gone.  Thankfully, the SF Gate’s article is still there for all to read.  By the way according the research done for my article, Israel has a nuclear stockpile that contains 400 nuclear warheads according to retired US Army Colonel Warner D. Farr, M.D.; Israel is the fifth largest nuclear superpower in the world.  By 1967, Israel already had 15 atomic bombs in its arsenal. In 1976, their nuclear arsenal grew to 15 to 20 nukes, and by 1980 jumped to 200. According to Farr, in 1997, Israel now has over 400 nuclear and hydrogen weapons.”

All of this should be of great concern to every single American. Our national security demands that we hold Israel equally culpable as we do Iran, Iraq and any other nation. But, with powerful lobbying groups such as AIPAC, our national security is in danger.  This is the stuff that nightmares are made of.

I will leave you to ponder what Albert Einstein had to say concerning the use of nuclear weapons, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Author’s email address is, xmjmac@optonline.net

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