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If you want peace, prepare for atomic war

UN condemns Israel’s “violation” of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Funny, because Israel isn’t a signatory on the pact.

Iran test fires a Fajr-3 missile [file photo]
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On December 3, just four days after voting in strong support of a Palestinian state, the UN General Assembly condemned Israel for allegedly violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Of course, this enthusiastic condemnation made no formal legal sense, because Israel, for very good reasons, has chosen to remain outside the 1968 pact. For Israel, agreeing to join the NPT as a non-nuclear member state, its only available treaty membership option, would be tantamount to national suicide.

Why would joining be so lethal to Israel? Plainly, making the Middle East in particular a nuclear weapon free zone could endanger Israel, and correspondingly strengthen Israel's enemies, including non-Arab Iran. By removing Israel's indispensable deterrent to suffering annihilatory military defeat, Israel's non-nuclear enemies would no longer be confronted by the near-certain prospect of unacceptably damaging retaliations. 

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