Re: Israel vs. Iran?


"Peter Vos" <pvos58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Alan Lichtenstein wrote:
>> Cochon Capitaliste wrote:
>> > If Iran is allowed to develop nuclear weapons, does Israel have the
>> > right to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian targets, including
>> > the use of Isreal's own nuclear weapons?
>> >
>>
>> Your choice of words is poor. When you use the phrase asking if Israel
>> has the right, you imply that there is some authority which has
>> responsibility for granting same. Obviously, as a sovereign nation,
>> Israel, like any other nation, has whatever right it and it alone deems
>> necessary to act in its own interests. Only its own people will sit in
>> judgment as to whether or not their government 'had the right.'
>
> I think the US has every right to tell Israel what it can and cannot do
> with the weapons and technology it buys from us with money it borrows
> from us, especially when they violate the Arms Export Control Act with
> abandon.
>

That does not mean that Israel "has" to listen.


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