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Edited by
AndrewAV
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Tue 02/10/09 09:07 PM
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Nice to see a photo, Andrew. 
Photo class assignment was a B&W self-portrait. Figured since I had the old RB67 and lights out, I'd pop out the digital too lol. |
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Israel never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1968 international agreement designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, a fact that has often been used by opponents to criticize Israel. But, Israel has few options for strategic defense against the massive capabilities of its enemies, including Saddam Hussein's Iraq and their Scuds. While signing the treaty would eliminate a propaganda tool against Israel, the loss of the weapons would be too high a price for Israel to pay. I Say More Power to them if they Do 
Sure, more power to them, perhaps, but then I'd also have to say to Iran: "More power to you guys if you can make nukes too!" You may say Iran is a crazy radical government, but I'd reply that we ought to examine our friend Israel a bit. Israel hasn't shown itself to be much better than Iran. This Israeli-Palestinian impasse has gone on for how long now? How long has Israel lived outside the scope of international law? Decades -- |
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Russians are bringing online an Iranian nuclear reactor. read it here: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061938.html Will USA launch a pre-emptive strike against Russia too? Because it has to. They are going to be there (russians) when the nuclear plant goes online, so do you think it's wise to throw around words like Biden, that "if Iran doesn't stop it's nuclear activity , we will launch a pre-emptive strike" ? What is this, if not war-mongering? If we were really smart, it'd be us helping Iran out, and not the Russians. Imagine if we were the ones supervising the project, working with Iran, helping Iran deal with its future oil shortage? Irani-US relations would be fantastic and this business of being afraid of nukes would be non-existent. In fact, if our countries were good friends, you'd imagine that Iran would help us out if **** ever went down. |
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Israel has never admitted a nuclear capability, but defense analysts have concluded that Israel has the most extensive and sophisticated nuclear arsenal outside of the major powers.... Israel never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the 1968 international agreement designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons, a fact that has often been used by opponents to criticize Israel. But, Israel has few options for strategic defense against the massive capabilities of its enemies, including Saddam Hussein's Iraq and their Scuds. While signing the treaty would eliminate a propaganda tool against Israel, the loss of the weapons would be too high a price for Israel to pay... All the same arguments fly for Iran too. I am forgetting for a moment, that Iran is looking for a "peaceful atom". May-be they are not? So? Are we to lecture them? They only ones who ever used nuclear weapons? And just like for Israel, the price of not having the weapon, might just be too great for Iran. Except in case of Iran, it's not scuds that are pointing at it, it is all-mighty USA with all it's nuclear capabilities. |
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Edited by
notquite00
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Wed 02/11/09 02:47 AM
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Since Israel was surrounded by much larger Arab states hostile to its existance, it was essential to develop a nuclear deterrent as the ultimate line of defense.
Maybe Israel should have thought twice before stealing an entire country - Palestine - for itself. Perhaps Israel should have also reconsidered caging the population of Palestine in two small regions only to treat the suffocated population like dogs. But, Israel has few options for strategic defense against the massive capabilities of its enemies.
Peace and kindness was one of those "few options" and perhaps the best of those options. While signing the treaty would eliminate a propaganda tool against Israel, the loss of the weapons would be too high a price for Israel to pay...
And what about the hundreds of thousands of ruined Palestinian lives? What about that price? Does being subject to genocide give one the right to commit such crimes against another ethnic group?       
To be fair, it was a crime for Hamas and other groups to send rockets into civilian populations. But...to be more fair, these rockets don't kill many people at all...probably less than 200 people have died from Palestinian rockets since 1948 when the occupation of Palestine by Israel began. By contrast, thousands die yearly from drunk driving and cigarettes in Israel. And another one: thousands have died since the recent invasion of Gaza by Israel began. Total overkill (no pun intended). |
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Nice to see a photo, Andrew.
Photo class assignment was a B&W self-portrait. Figured since I had the old RB67 and lights out, I'd pop out the digital too lol. You're taking a photography class. That sounds cool. I've always wanted to take one. |
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