xman, nothing you post is objective. Your a supporter of the Palestinian cause, and you are a racist. I dident through it because its very long and i lacked the time. Also, you should have posted in Irans nukes but you knew that people will rebuff what you post, so you posted here. Fine, I know read it. Now, lets have a spin:
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These Western powers have argued convincingly for decades that nuclear deterrence keeps the peace - and themselves maintain nuclear armories long after the cold war has ended. So why shouldn't Iran, which is in one of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods, have a deterrent too?
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Why?Mainly because Iran is not a western democracy with a normal chain of command. In a western country, the chance of using the nukes is so small, that it is almos non-existant. In Irans lunatic regiem, who knows?
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And where is the source of the threat that makes Iran, a country that has never started a war in 200 years, feel so nervous that it must now take the nuclear road? If Saddam Hussein's Iraq, with its nuclear ambitions, used to be one reason, the other is certainly Israel,
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Well, its true that for 200 years they havent started a war, the country has only been under fundamentalist rule for the past 25 years. And only one year after the fundamentalists took ht epower, they had a nice little war with Iraq, in which WMDs were used as a rutine by both sides.
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There is no evidence, however, that Arab states have invested the financial and human resources necessary to fight the kind of war that would be catastrophic for Israel
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Firstly, the Arab nations tryed to eliminate Israel 3 times in 56 years. That is not a good track-record. Secondly, Israel holds its nuclear capabilities to counter Arab use of Chimical and Biological weapons, and also in case the Arabs developpe nuclear devices of their own.
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Nor have Israel's nuclear weapons influenced Arab attitudes toward making peace. In the 1973 Arab war against Israel and in the 1991 Gulf war, they clearly failed in their supposed deterrent effect. The Arabs knew, as the North Vietnamese knew during the Vietnam War, that their opponent would not dare to use its nuclear weapons.
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Well, dosent that just contradict the whole articale? If everyone knows we wont use it first, and Iran knows we wont use it first, why do they need their own nuclear weapons? Ill tell you why, because they are seriously considering using their nukes first.
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Egypt did not violate its peace treaty with Israel when Israel attacked Syria and Lebanon in 1982. Syria did not violate the May 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel even when its forces were under Israeli attack. Nor did Egypt, Jordan and Syria violate their treaty commitments when the second Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000.
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This is mostly true. But this is mainly because they are afraud to do so. If the Arabs had the abilitie to crush Israel in a single nuclear attack, knowing that their would be no respons, they would. Unfortunatly fo them, their would be a respons...