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Originally Posted by tynan88
Hey y'all it's been a while but this issue frustrates me.
Isn't Israel the really dangerous country in all this...I mean they are the ones who do have a nuke so why is it OK for them to have a nuke but not OK for Iran to have it? I mean hasn't Israel had it for quite a few years to "defend" itself when there isn't really anything to defend against that is on any similar scale.
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Israel is a parliamentary democracy--in fact the only parliamentary democracy in the entire Middle East, the only country in the Middle East with a tradition & history of consensual government. As the London Weekly Standard put it, modern democracies rarely attack America or each other. Israel also has the highest standard of living per capita & the highest literacy rate of any country in the Mideast. For Israel to have nuclear weapons is no more dangerous than for Britain or France to have nuclear weapons. (No comment about the United States!)
In addition, when was the last time you or anyone you know was afraid of being blown out of the sky by an Israeli terrorist on a flight to Madrid or Paris?