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Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
So instead of brokering peace in the middle east we will continue to play into the hands of terrorists who can point to Israel once again and tell their followers the US favors Israel to the detriment of Arab nations.
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
So instead of brokering peace in the middle east we will continue to play into the hands of terrorists who can point to Israel once again and tell their followers the US favors Israel to the detriment of Arab nations.
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
So instead of brokering peace in the middle east we will continue to play into the hands of terrorists who can point to Israel once again and tell their followers the US favors Israel to the detriment of Arab nations.
So instead of playing "into the hands of terrorists" we should appease them like our european counterparts, right? Do you understand the history of appeasement? That's right, it doesn't work. And by the way, no one should deal with terrorists. They should all be destroyed. A legitimate representative, however, is another story.
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
So instead of brokering peace in the middle east we will continue to play into the hands of terrorists who can point to Israel once again and tell their followers the US favors Israel to the detriment of Arab nations.
So instead of playing "into the hands of terrorists" we should appease them like our european counterparts, right? Do you understand the history of appeasement? That's right, it doesn't work. And by the way, no one should deal with terrorists. They should all be destroyed. A legitimate representative, however, is another story.
I never said we should work with terrorists or appease them. The point of my post was we've been heavily favoring one side in the middle east to the detriment of our relations with the other side. This is like tilling the soil for terrorists. Muslim nations view America's blatant appeasement of Israel as proof positive of a USA/Israel cabal against them.
And now we can't even control the monster we've created. Israel does as she pleases while the Bush administration tries to save face.
Does anyone besides me remember Bush stating his mideast policy in the first few months after his selection?
He said something along these lines. Let Israel and her neighbors stratghten out their differences then the US would enter the process.
Bush's plan hasn't worked very well, has it? Israel's idea of straightening out its differences with her neighbors under the right wing Likud Party is destroy them all. Genocide.
And Arabs around the globe are taking note.
And people wonder why they hate the USA.
Originally posted by: Shad0hawK
the reason there will never be any peace in the middle east:
on May 14th, 1948 israel became a nation , there was no west bank controversy. no yassar arafat or ariel sharon.
on May 15th it was invaded by jordan, syrai, egypt, lebanon, and iraq. because they did not want a jewish nation in the middle east. 1% of middle eastern land seems to be too much for the jews to have.
"The Jews won their war of independence with minimal help from the West. In fact, they won despite efforts to undermine their military strength. As noted earlier, the United States vigorously supported the partition resolution, but the State Department didn't want to provide the Jews with the means to defend themselves. "Otherwise," Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett argued, "the Arabs might use arms of U.S. origin against Jews, or Jews might use them against Arabs." Consequently, on December 5, 1947, the U.S. imposed an arms embargo on the entire region...The Arabs had no difficulty obtaining all the arms they needed. In fact, Jordan's Arab Legion was armed and trained by the British and led by a British officer. At the end of 1948 and the beginning of 1949, British R.A.F. planes flew with Egyptian squadrons over the Israel-Egypt border. On January 7, 1949, Israeli planes shot down four of the British aircraft...The Jews, on the other hand, were forced to smuggle weapons, principally from Czechoslovakia. When Israel declared its independence in May 1948, the army did not have a single cannon or tank. Its air force consisted of nine obsolete planes. On the eve of the war, Chief of Operations Yigal Yadin told Ben-Gurion, 'The best we can tell you is that we have a 50-50 chance.'" from the complete idiot's guide to the middle east conflict
I believe we're talking about subs with nukes rather than nuclear powered. Its because Israel's threat has never really come from the USSR, but neighboring countries. If Iran has nuclear weapons, and Syria may already have VX tipped missiles aimed at Israel, Israel wants to maintain a nuclear deterence capability to ensure the its neighbors don't use WMD on Israel. Israel very much is in a situation similar to the US facing off against the USSR during the gold war, so their nuclear weapon capability can be very much justified on that fact. If Iran is likely to have nukes soon, how can you argue that Israel has no need or reason to have their own capability?Originally posted by: replicator Why does Israel need nuclear submarines...?
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
So instead of brokering peace in the middle east we will continue to play into the hands of terrorists who can point to Israel once again and tell their followers the US favors Israel to the detriment of Arab nations.
So instead of playing "into the hands of terrorists" we should appease them like our european counterparts, right? Do you understand the history of appeasement? That's right, it doesn't work. And by the way, no one should deal with terrorists. They should all be destroyed. A legitimate representative, however, is another story.
I never said we should work with terrorists or appease them. The point of my post was we've been heavily favoring one side in the middle east to the detriment of our relations with the other side. This is like tilling the soil for terrorists. Muslim nations view America's blatant appeasement of Israel as proof positive of a USA/Israel cabal against them.
And now we can't even control the monster we've created. Israel does as she pleases while the Bush administration tries to save face.
Does anyone besides me remember Bush stating his mideast policy in the first few months after his selection?
He said something along these lines. Let Israel and her neighbors stratghten out their differences then the US would enter the process.
Bush's plan hasn't worked very well, has it? Israel's idea of straightening out its differences with her neighbors under the right wing Likud Party is destroy them all. Genocide.
And Arabs around the globe are taking note.
And people wonder why they hate the USA.
The problem with your opinion is that it looks as if you've been looking at the situation after the Cold War ended. As I've stated earlier, Israel and the US have been strong allies for the past 50 years. In fact, for the first decade after she was created, successive US Administrations were pro-arab. France was Israel's primary military seller. We were even against Israel when she sided with the british and french when all three went on their excursion in the Suez Canal. That all changed when Kennedy came to power. He was very pro-israel and we became their primary military contractor. Keep in mind, during all this, the arabs were still allied with the Soviet Union. However, when the soviet empire fell, they had no superpower to call their own and started complaining that the US was an unfair broker in the conflict. Can you believe that? They lose their main partner and start complaining that we are not being impartial? Were they or the Soviets being impartial during the Cold War? Give me a phucking break.
The arabs need to realize that terrorism will never work. They need to disband the terror nexus withing their countries, liberalize their economies, liberalize their politics, and enter the family of nations.
BTW, please make intelligent posts or I will stop responding.
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
Originally posted by: BOBDN
Originally posted by: Dari
The day the UN starts looking at Israel's supposed nuclear arsenal is the day Israel unjustly/illegaly invades her neighbors.
Perhaps the Bush administration should do something about this imminent threat.
Well, when israel starts threatening us or is hostile towards our policy in the region, I would have no problem with turning the Jewish state into a glass parking lot. But she's not. We helped create her and she's been a strong ally the past 50 years. Furthermore, she has a deep-water port at Caesaria that can handle a battlegroup. Not only that, she's within striking range if the arabs flip.
So instead of brokering peace in the middle east we will continue to play into the hands of terrorists who can point to Israel once again and tell their followers the US favors Israel to the detriment of Arab nations.
So instead of playing "into the hands of terrorists" we should appease them like our european counterparts, right? Do you understand the history of appeasement? That's right, it doesn't work. And by the way, no one should deal with terrorists. They should all be destroyed. A legitimate representative, however, is another story.
I never said we should work with terrorists or appease them. The point of my post was we've been heavily favoring one side in the middle east to the detriment of our relations with the other side. This is like tilling the soil for terrorists. Muslim nations view America's blatant appeasement of Israel as proof positive of a USA/Israel cabal against them.
And now we can't even control the monster we've created. Israel does as she pleases while the Bush administration tries to save face.
Does anyone besides me remember Bush stating his mideast policy in the first few months after his selection?
He said something along these lines. Let Israel and her neighbors stratghten out their differences then the US would enter the process.
Bush's plan hasn't worked very well, has it? Israel's idea of straightening out its differences with her neighbors under the right wing Likud Party is destroy them all. Genocide.
And Arabs around the globe are taking note.
And people wonder why they hate the USA.
The problem with your opinion is that it looks as if you've been looking at the situation after the Cold War ended. As I've stated earlier, Israel and the US have been strong allies for the past 50 years. In fact, for the first decade after she was created, successive US Administrations were pro-arab. France was Israel's primary military seller. We were even against Israel when she sided with the british and french when all three went on their excursion in the Suez Canal. That all changed when Kennedy came to power. He was very pro-israel and we became their primary military contractor. Keep in mind, during all this, the arabs were still allied with the Soviet Union. However, when the soviet empire fell, they had no superpower to call their own and started complaining that the US was an unfair broker in the conflict. Can you believe that? They lose their main partner and start complaining that we are not being impartial? Were they or the Soviets being impartial during the Cold War? Give me a phucking break.
The arabs need to realize that terrorism will never work. They need to disband the terror nexus withing their countries, liberalize their economies, liberalize their politics, and enter the family of nations.
BTW, please make intelligent posts or I will stop responding.
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
worry about israel with nukes, oh please. they are a doomday defense weapon for them. they are few against the zealous hoards that surround them. it only takes one crackpot regiem in the arab countries to go nutz and decide its worthwhile to sacrifice his nation to nuke the jews, after all, there are 1 billion mulsims, a few maytres is a decent price to pay for jewish eradication. this is what they have to deal with, and you think israels the threat?
Originally posted by: Aegion
I believe we're talking about subs with nukes rather than nuclear powered. Its because Israel's threat has never really come from the USSR, but neighboring countries. If Iran has nuclear weapons, and Syria may already have VX tipped missiles aimed at Israel, Israel wants to maintain a nuclear deterence capability to ensure the its neighbors don't use WMD on Israel. Israel very much is in a situation similar to the US facing off against the USSR during the gold war, so their nuclear weapon capability can be very much justified on that fact. If Iran is likely to have nukes soon, how can you argue that Israel has no need or reason to have their own capability?Originally posted by: replicator Why does Israel need nuclear submarines...?
Originally posted by: GrGr
"Terrorism will never work". Have you ever heard of the Haganah, Irgon and Stern? Israel's history is largely a history of terrorism. Terrorism worked for the Israeli's. It is not easy for the Palestinians to disband their terrororganizations, who where created much later than their Israeli predecessors, and can be seen as counterterrororganizations. I agree that the Arabs should stop with the terror. But Israel also needs to comply with the UN resolutions.
My view is its rather unlikely that if Israel announced formally it did have nukes, but was now going to completely disarm, that all the Middle-Eastern powers would agree to get rid of their own chemical and nuclear weapon programs. I very sincerely doubt that Iran thinks its probable that Israel would ever use nukes against them unless they attacked them first, and Iran can certainly point to the US as a nuclear threat regardless. There is also the practical issue that neither side would trust the other to get rid of all of their WMDs or WMD developement programs. Finally, for Israel's perspective, they can't really absolutely trust the US in the future to use nukes against a country that launches massive WMD strikes at Israel, particularly given who is president can change every 4 years. Basicly Israel has had nukes for a long time, and now that other states in the region have their own programs, Israel has more of an argument than every why they need them.Originally posted by: replicator
I meant subs with nuclear capability, but I guess I miswrote. Anyhow, I can argue that Israel has no need for this capability, because as others have suggested, it will push other states in the region to also acquire this capability. Why let Israel have nukes? They already have military supremacy in the middle east, and it will surely stay that way as long as US is the superpower.
Every state that isn't in the good books with the US and Israel can then argue that they need a deterence against them.
Why start another arms race