How About a Nuclear Free Middle East?

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Joseph A. Palermo
Author/Associate Professor of History
Posted: May 18, 2009 07:47 AM

Bibi Goes to Washington: How About a Nuclear Free Middle East?

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But the only reasonable way to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions is to create a framework, which Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund has been talking about for years, where the Middle East becomes a "Nuclear Free Zone." All nuclear weapons in the region must be dismantled and removed through international inspections, oversight, and multilateral agreement. Israel's nuclear arsenal must go the way of South Africa's. Then real peace negotiations can commence. If any region in the world cries out to be "nuclear free" it's the Middle East. Unless the Israeli bomb is included in President Obama's nuclear non-proliferation goals his vision for a nuclear-free world will become nothing but a mirage. It's easy to demand that our adversaries stop their nuclear programs. But nuclear non-proliferation only becomes real when we demand that our friends and allies and our own government move toward ridding the world of these terrible weapons.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/bibi-goes-to-washington-h_b_204503.html

[Echo In Light]

1. Fantastic idea. However, the sociopaths running the show will never abandon extinction ensuring WMDs

[marmar]

2. How about a nuclear-free West? ..... We love to dictate what everyone else should be.

n/t

[madokie]

3. What about a nuclear free world,

period. Up and until we have a plan for the radioactive waste we should not be allowed to even contemplate any of it.

[stray cat]

4. Lets just have peace on earth and good will toward men

[ThomWV]

5. How about a nuclear-free North America? Or how about Asia and Europe?

Oh, and where does Israel stand in all this?

[Better Believe It]

6. Shhhhhh..... not suppose to talk about Israel's nuclear arsenal

[LeftishBrit]

7. How about a Nuclear-Free World?

One can dream.

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