Lets begin with this quote” Any deal with Iran must include a clear and unambiguous recognition by Tehran of Israel’s right to exist”. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu said.
What exactly would the world look like if America uses it military might to obliterate every country or group of people who holler “death to America”?
Would there even be a world?
This has been the central argument behind Netanyahu’s aggressive stance against Iran. That Iran does not recognize Israel’s right to exist.
Using that logic every powerful country has the right to break less powerful countries who dare have an opposing world view.
The reason behind Netanyahu’s obsession with bringing Iran to it’s knees requires some scrutiny.
Israel has not adhered to any United Nation’s resolutions, it has managed to thumb it’s nose at the world because of its powerful friends , The United States, England and France.
Netanyahu’s arrogance, and his cheekiness is well known, he is not afraid to openly defy his most powerful backer, despite President Obama’s opposition to a war with Iran.
He is comfortable in the knowledge that there are more than enough lackeys and shills in the congress bought and paid for with Jewish lobby’s money.
Netanyahu is singularly focused on the destruction of Iran not because Iran is guilty of any greater transgression that Israel has not equaled or surpassed. His goal is to have Iran so neutered that Israel will wield the only real power in the region.
The biggest opposition to Israel’s geographical expansion in Palestine is hindered by Hamas and Hezbollah both allies and proteges of Iran.
Understanding the dynamics of this scenario is critical to understanding exactly what exactly are the real burning issues in that Region.
One does not have to set foot in the region to understand that at the heart of many conflicts in the region is the Palestinian Israeli conflict aided and abetted by the United States and other western power.
Now lets not kid ourselves Iran is no Angel but neither is Israel.
Israel is reported to posses in excess of 200 nuclear bombs.
What gives Israel the right to possess Bombs Iran or any other nation are not allowed to have because of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty?
No one wants a world with nuclear bombs in the hands of every nation.
However we heard the same arguments when the Indians and the Pakistani’s declared they had nuclear bombs.
All of that noise has now dissapeared, neither Pakistan nor India has used Nuclear weapons to threaten nor obliterate anyone.
Nuclear weapons are essentially bargaining chips, status symbols.
Of course in the hand of bad actors they can make for really bad situations.
The United States however is the only nation to ever have used an atomic device.
This caused a mad rush by other powers, soon the Soviet Union France and England announced they were nuclear armed as well, China , India , and Pakistan and some believe North Korea was to follow.
Each power despite their fearsome arsenal are mindful that the use of nuclear weapons on another country will elicit a massive response from the other country or that country’s protectors.
What’s important to note is that it is clear that the only powers who should have nuclear weapons are Caucasian powers. France, Britain,Russia, The United States.
Of course it was not exactly a celebration when Asia joined the prestigious club.
China, India and Pakistan was to become members of that special group.
Nevertheless Israel was allowed to have the very weapons they are fighting tooth and nail to keep from the hands of other nations.
The bomb must be kept from the hands of non-white people at all cost.
Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN Monday, June 17th, 2013 at 9:47 pm. writing for Silicon Africa in an Articled titled The Dark Truth About Why South Africa Destroyed Its Nuclear Weapons in 1990's.
Why would any country voluntarily dismantle its nuclear weapons which take years and billions to develop?South Africa is the only country which ever give up its nuclear dissuasion power. But Why? Did they dismantle the country’s nuclear weapons because they believed in a vision of an Africa free of nuclear weapons, as the press reported?
NO.
The white apartheid regime didn’t want a Black Nation to possess nuclear weapon, a dissuasive power in our contemporary world. Foreseeing a democratic South Africa where Black people will be in power, the white regime destroyed all the country’s main military facilities, ballistics missiles and dismantling all six complete nuclear weapons shortly after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990.
South Africa hastily joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and seven weeks later the country signed a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
According to Greg Mills “South African authorities co-operated fully with the IAEA during the whole verification process, and were commended by the then director-general of the Agency in 1992, Dr. Hans Blix, for providing inspectors with unlimited access and data beyond those required by the Safeguards Agreement“ In less than 3 years all South Africa’s ballistic missiles were scrapped, its six nuclear weapons dismantled, and any remaining missile engines destroyed.
To prevent any future attempt by any upcoming South African administration to empower the country, the apartheid regime enacted the most self-restricting legislation in the form of the “Act on the Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” that makes provision for a South African Council for Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction to control exports of dual-use materials, equipment and technology. While South African apartheid leaders’ actions were met with praise by the western medias and leaders, many saw this speedy destruction of all the country main military infrastructures as a sign that the racist apartheid regime and many western countries didn’t want the upcoming Black leaders to inherit such a powerful arsenal.
“The whole thing was dressed up as an honourable retreat from a nuclear Africa”said Frans Cronje, deputy CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, a Johannesburg-based think tank.
“A nuclear African state would be taken more seriously and would have a stronger leadership role – it forces people to take you seriously. In leadership terms, renouncing nuclear weapons does the opposite – it reduces your influence in foreign affairs and international politics. If renouncing nuclear weapons grows your influence, others would be falling over themselves to surrender their nuclear arsenals.” continued Frans Cronje While a racist, violent, and brutal oppression white apartheid regime was trusted to have and manage nuclear weapons, a Black and democratically elected regime was not trusted to manage them. That historic decision was all about racism. Nothing else. South Africa would today be stronger on the international stage if it had retained a nuclear arsenal.
Mawuna Koutonin is a world peace activist who relentlessly works to empower people to express their full potential and pursue their dreams, regardless of their background. He is the Editior of SiliconAfrica.com, Founder of Goodbuzz.net, and Social activist for Africa Renaissance. Koutonin’s ultimate dream is to open a world-class human potential development school in Africa in 2017. If you are interested in learning more about this venture or Koutonin’s other projects, you can reach him directly by emailing at linkcrafter@gmail.com.
The list is long, Iran, Chile, Panama,Iraq, Nicaragua.
During the Cold War, both the State and Defense departments dubbed Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress, a terrorist group, and Mandela’s name remained on the U.S. terrorism watch list till 2008.
Presidents Carter and Reagan and Congress had all instituted sanctions against the white minority South African government because of its policy of racial apartheid. But in 1986, Reagan condemned Mandela’s group, the ANC, which was leading the black struggle against the apartheid regime, saying it engaged in "calculated terror ... the mining of roads, the bombings of public places, designed to bring about further repression." The terrorist designation finally proved too embarrassing for the U.S. government to ignore. In April 2008, during the last year of the George W. Bush administration, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Senate committee that her department had to issue waivers for ANC members to travel to the United States. "This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it's frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela," Rice said then.
Before Osama Bin Laden was public enemy #1, he was America's freedom fighter of the Mujaheddin Guerrilla group fighting America's proxy war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
A Washington Post Article dated Dec. 2nd 2013. Titled "Why is the U.S. okay with Israel having nuclear weapons but not Iran"?
Columnist Max Fisher wrote.
"What Einstein, Oppenheimer and Teller, the three of them are Jews, made for the United States could also be done by scientists in Israel for their own people," Ben-Gurion wrote in 1956.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/02/why-is-the-u-s-okay-with-israel-having-nuclear-weapons-but-not-iran
Ben Gurion fundamentally believed that Israeli Jews were the architects of America's nuclear program. He believed they had a right and indeed a duty to do the same for Israel.
Pride, the very pride Iran feels in the development of it's own program. Israel gets to keep over 200 nuclear bombs , no one else in the region must have that right.
Hegemony and total domination is what Israel craves.
Iranian scientists have been murdered, Iran has had it's computer systems attacked yet Israel claims they want to live in peace , even as their agents murder Iranians on Iranian soil and the Mossad is actively engaged in cyber warfare against Iran.
Max Fisher's Article in the Washington Post make interesting read , even though it's slant is predictably Pro-Israel , it gives a small window into the truth of Israel's nuclear Arsenal which no one talks about.