Israel does not have any nuclear weapons. Not even 90 of them, by last count.
I understand why it would want them. After all, two nations that joined the nuclear club did so because they hated each other and wanted just to nuke the other one. India got nukes, then its natural enemy, Pakistan, said, “Ah hell no they di’int!”, so Pakistan got nukes too. Hindu versus Muslim. Yeah, that’s a holy war waiting to happen (and the rest of us get to breathe in the radiation so those two can obliterate each other.)
Should very religious nations be allowed to own a single … wait, the argument’s just getting started.
Israel is surrounded by Arab nations, thus the nukes (which they don’t have).
But wait, here’s a sticky wicket. America likes Israel but it doesn’t like Iran. Where would Israel’s non-nukes be aimed? Lebanon and Syria are obvious answers, but Iran is bigger than both of them.
So (and here’s the dangerous question to ask when in a western nation, and all citizens of such are supposed to share western ideals and opinions) … why can’t Iran have nukes too? Tit for tat? They don’t like Israel, which doesn’t like them … so isn’t that another India-Pakistan situation?
Which means that Israel and America just want to have all the Middle East nukes and let none of their enemies have some too. Thus, Israel (with Trump’s help) will assassinate the head of Iran’s nuclear program on its own soil, but Israel won’t share the same bullet.
Hypocrisy? (You can’t spell that word without ‘cry’. Thank you, that’s bad comedy and I did it again.)
Few nuclear countries, rather than more, is best. All we can hope for is that Israel doesn’t put some Trump-loving leader (shit, not again, is Bibi really gone?) in control of their nuclear arsenal (doesn’t exist) and push a button ‘cuz some Arab country shot a missile (not a nuke, of course) into Israeli airspace, when only Israel is allowed to do that.
Hypocrisy (which cannot be spelled without “pissy”, which may be the mood a nation gets in when it thinks it’s a good idea not just to kill its enemies, but to kill us all. Not even Jehovah can control the way the wind blows radiation around the world.)
Please don’t kill us, Israel. You hold too many religions in your fragile hand to be allowed a single big bomb (which you don’t have, right, we get it … to paraphrase Mr. Kurtz: “The lies … the lies …)
(The irony is: if the Israelis want to nuke the people they hate the most, they will be bombing their own country … Palestine’s Revenge.)
