Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Should Israel Go Public With Its Nuke Arsenal?

I'm not an expert on this issue, but it's always been known to me that Israel does not publicly declare that it possesses nuclear weapons, and the United States pretends it does not. Sullivan does not understand why Israel just doesn't come clean about it. He suggests that perhaps Israel and Iran could benefit from a stand-off on these weapons, but I'm not convinced.

My belief -- as a believer in many things dark and sinister -- is that the United States, which has proven time and again to be the world's puppet-master and man behind the curtain, probably worked with Israel long ago to develop their nukes while holding them to utmost secrecy. After all, if the United States were to acknowledge publicly that Israel is a nuclear power, the truth of how it happened would be revealed as well. Imagine then, that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other oil producing Arab countries would have to now fully admit (in public) that the United States' support for Israel has brought nuclear weapons to their region (indeed, to their borders in some cases). The already fragile business alliances that keep the US swimming in crude oil and the Arabs swimming in dollars and Euros would be seriously undermined. The Saudi royal family, the keepers of the Wahhabist flame, would be revealed as cynical profiteers instead of Islam's faithful servants. And way up there? That's the price of a gallon of gas.

I think the United States also pretends not to know for the same reasons it pretends not to recognize Taiwan as an independent country. It's the price we have to pay to keep sleeping dogs lying.

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