i've long been fascinated by Israel and there goal of not telling anyone about anything to do with their business and to a certain extent i agree.
that is until it comes to nuclear armaments. the only reason i believe these should be treated any differently is because everyone agrees it should be so. the bad guys do it and the good guys do it. when looking at the nuclear landscape it is easy to see who is up for playing fair and who is not.
reading an article recently i discovered that israel is pretty much the only country to not allow inspections, to not sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and so on and so on.
why is this then?
i guess it is to do with maintaining their own sovereign security which no one can argue against. what doesn't make sense is the fact that it is an open secret that they do have nuclear arms and continue to manufacture them, this i don't have a problem with. it's their right so why not.
what i am struggling to comprehend is why the rest of the world is allowing Israel to pick and chose when it should or should not play to the rules of international law, then i thought a little more about that, they don't actually have to play by the rules as they haven't signed anything to say they will. the same applies to the Geneva Convention - if you are going to go to battle with an entity that is not a signatory best you change the rules you have to play to in order to best prepare those you send to face these people as there is very little point in taking a white handkerchief to a bull-fight (against bull-fighting btw).
so this is how i believe it should happen - if Israel wants to protect it's sovereignty then fair play to them. what should not happen is the US, at every opportunity, uses it's power of veto to undermine any attempt by any other nation to force them to tow the line at the UN.
why does the US do this?
that my friends is very very obvious. you do not bite the hand that feeds you, you may well argue that it is the US that is feeding Israel but it is only money, weapons and some other aid Israel receives from the US. what the US get's from Israel is another and very complex story.
Israel is to the US what Hilary Clinton was to Bill, without Hilary Bill would have been sunk - now Hilary was only the facade of what was actually going on. Bill was in power but Hilary was the power.
similarly the US is touted as the only global world super power left, but it is Israel that has that power. Israel is the President and the US is the 7th Fleet, the US is merely a tool with which Israel gets what it wants.
now, to be honest, i don't have a problem with this as the US population is allowing this to happen, seems happy (but clearly oblivious) that it is happening and therefore where is the problem.
why would you blame Israel for the US allowing itself to be walked over, I couldn't. the US is a big boy who we are told can look after itself...but can it?
really, can it?
that is until it comes to nuclear armaments. the only reason i believe these should be treated any differently is because everyone agrees it should be so. the bad guys do it and the good guys do it. when looking at the nuclear landscape it is easy to see who is up for playing fair and who is not.
reading an article recently i discovered that israel is pretty much the only country to not allow inspections, to not sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and so on and so on.
why is this then?
i guess it is to do with maintaining their own sovereign security which no one can argue against. what doesn't make sense is the fact that it is an open secret that they do have nuclear arms and continue to manufacture them, this i don't have a problem with. it's their right so why not.
what i am struggling to comprehend is why the rest of the world is allowing Israel to pick and chose when it should or should not play to the rules of international law, then i thought a little more about that, they don't actually have to play by the rules as they haven't signed anything to say they will. the same applies to the Geneva Convention - if you are going to go to battle with an entity that is not a signatory best you change the rules you have to play to in order to best prepare those you send to face these people as there is very little point in taking a white handkerchief to a bull-fight (against bull-fighting btw).
so this is how i believe it should happen - if Israel wants to protect it's sovereignty then fair play to them. what should not happen is the US, at every opportunity, uses it's power of veto to undermine any attempt by any other nation to force them to tow the line at the UN.
why does the US do this?
that my friends is very very obvious. you do not bite the hand that feeds you, you may well argue that it is the US that is feeding Israel but it is only money, weapons and some other aid Israel receives from the US. what the US get's from Israel is another and very complex story.
Israel is to the US what Hilary Clinton was to Bill, without Hilary Bill would have been sunk - now Hilary was only the facade of what was actually going on. Bill was in power but Hilary was the power.
similarly the US is touted as the only global world super power left, but it is Israel that has that power. Israel is the President and the US is the 7th Fleet, the US is merely a tool with which Israel gets what it wants.
now, to be honest, i don't have a problem with this as the US population is allowing this to happen, seems happy (but clearly oblivious) that it is happening and therefore where is the problem.
why would you blame Israel for the US allowing itself to be walked over, I couldn't. the US is a big boy who we are told can look after itself...but can it?
really, can it?
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