How To Depopulate Israel
Iran’s nuclear program poses a major threat to the Jewish nation-state of Israel for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, nuclear weapons would enable Iran to do what Ahmadinejad dreamed about out loud years ago: to wipe Israel off the map. Secondly, weapons of mass destruction could be given to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas, who could use them against Israel without retaliation. Thirdly, approximately 1/4 of Israelis would consider migrating if Iran develops such weapons. It goes without saying that such a mass exodus would be horrific.
Some 23 percent of Israelis would consider leaving the country if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, according to a poll conducted on behalf of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University.
That is absolutely devastating, and yet another reason why the West should make sure that Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons.
Not only does the poll show that many Israelis would consider migrating if this nightmare scenario would unfold, it also shows that they want their and the American government to do everything in their power to prevent it:
Some 85 percent of respondents said they feared the Islamic Republic would obtain an atomic bomb, 57 percent believed the new U.S. initiative to engage in dialogue with Tehran would fail and 41 percent believed Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear installations without waiting to see whether or how the talks develop.
41% is a very high percentage; and it will only increase during the coming months when these talks are likely to prove completely and utterly useless.
Some 80 percent of left-wing voters and 67 percent of right-wing voters expressed deep concern over a nuclear Iran. Respondents describing themselves as centrists were the most fretful, with 88 percent saying they feared Iran would obtain the bomb.
Obama and Netanyahu should keep the results of this poll in mind when they devise their Iran policy. People act on their fears, and the US can most definitely not afford to lose this vital regional ally.
Israel startet this shit – or who was first bringing nuclear weapons to the middle east?
Michael van der Galien ignores the fact that Iran has been facing threats of attack from the Israel and the US, which have been waging a campaign of propaganda against Iran for sometime to turn the world against it. Iran has every right to nuclear weapons and should get them to protect its sovereignty and people. Israel has nuclear bombs so why shouldn’t Iran have them also?
The hypocrisy of Israel and the US is unbelieveable, as Israel has over 300 nuclear weapons which the US supports while trying to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Moreover, the US supplies Israel with financial assistance and sophiscated weapons to continue its brutal occupation of the Palestinians, as well as commit atrocities and war crimes on its arab neighbors.
The US has created the violence in the Middle East by supplying its allies, Israel and others, with nuclear bombs and sophiscated weapons to commit atrocities and war crimes on countries without sophiscated weapons and nuclear bombs.
If the US wants to protect Israel, it should start by forcing Israel to give up its nuclear bombs, join the NPT, and be monitored by the EU inspector same as other countries in the Middle East. Either no country is entitled to nuclear weapons or every country is entitled to nuclear weapons.
Serious comments on this board as well as from the news media should be addressing the double standards and hypocrisy of the US that is causing chaos and violence in the Middle East and world, and increasing the chance of WW3.
As Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, this statement is a clear factual error and an indication that the commenter is frankly ignorant about what she is proclaiming upon. By signing the NPT treaty, Iran has itself specifically acknowledged that its acquisition of nuclear weapons would be illegal. It Iran were to withdraw from the treaty, then it would have the legal right to obtain nuclear weapons, though of course the reality of power politics combined with the Iranian President’s willingness to endorse genocide against the Jews would likely result in a reaction that Iran would be ill-equipped to handle. (As the Melians learned, protestations of injustice and unfairness carry little weight in matters of national survival, and Israel would have a legitimate concern about its national survival if a potentially genocidal government were to obtain nuclear capability.)
Israel is not a signatory to the NPT and it has not embraced genocide as a goal of its policy. Even while it is legitimate to criticize Israel’s foreign, domestic, and defense policies (including its nuclear capability), the cases are simply not comparable.
@Jason Arvak
Israel has not embraced genocide as a goal? You’re right – they’ve only embraced it as a means. Did you happen to have your TV off during operation caste lead? Those people were caged in by a wall and a naval blockage, bombarded from the air by bombs. Palestine has no military – nothing that could ever compare to F-16s, tanks, APCs, huge number of soldiers, naval assets, etc.
No it’s not legitimate to criticize Israel’s policies – every time anyone does, they are accused of antisemitism. Palestine should be given it’s own state and the blockade needs to end now. Israelis keep rebuilding illegal settlements that their own government tears down. Every Palestinian killed is labeled a militant by the media by default. The situation over there is sick and no one cares.
“Some 80 percent of left-wing voters and 67 percent of right-wing voters expressed deep concern over a nuclear Iran.”
How the hell do those numbers make sense? Maybe this is showing my ignorance of other country’s politics, but surely the right-wingers should be more worried?
Whatever the flaws of the Israeli approach to Gaza and the Palestinians (and I concede there are many flaws), they fall FAR short of anything that can legitimately be called “genocide”. Given that Israel’s military superiority is as you describe, if Israel were to choose genocide as a means OR an end, Gaza would not be the home to over a million Palestinians, now would it? So perhaps you should calm down and recognize an important distinction:
Hamas’ call for genocide is open, deliberate, and direct. It is written into their foundational charter and has been repeatedly reaffirmed. To try to compare Israel’s actions to that is to be fundamentally dishonest.
And it is not true that all critics of Israeli policy are condemned for anti-semitism. The only critics I would condemn as anti-semitic are those who embrace anti-Israeli double standards (a.k.a. prejudice) in their analysis of Israelis and Palestinians. Unfortunately, there seem to be an awful lot of those around lately. I think the claim that all criticism of Israel is condemned as anti-semitism is often just spin by actual anti-semitics trying to play the victim card to evade criticism of their methods and their double standards. But I for one refuse to be deterred in calling out those double standards for what they are — acts of prejudice.
Also, lest we forget, the anti-Israel protests in Europe and the United States contained significant elements of open anti-semitism — swastikas and signs calling for the extermination of the Jews. The supposedly non-anti-semitic protesters within those same protests did not seem willing to confront the anti-semitic components within their ranks. At that point, silence is consent.
What you say about Palestinians needing a state and Israel needing to stop building settlements is true. The problem at this point is finding a way to get popular support for those policies in Israel. And the only way to get there is to have Palestinians drop their support for a party that endorses the genocidal extermination of the Jews. I don’t think that ANY democratic polity could be expected to negotiate or compromise with a group that is openly committed to genocidal extermination.
Jason
@Jason Arvak You speak of the illegality for Iran to have nuclear bombs because it signed the NPT. You maybe right but everything is off the table when a country’s national security is threatened, and Israel’s frequent threats to attack Iran is threatening to its national security. Afterall, Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a history of subjugating a people, land stealing, violating border boundaries, bombing neighbors’ factories, staging pre-emptive strikes, starting unprovokes wars, and terrorism. Iran has not violated the rights of its neighbors, nor its property or borders.
Also, few in the Middle East pay attention to legality or illegality. Take Israel for an example, Israel has been ignoring the illegality of land stealing for over 60 years. To date, Israel has stolen over 80% of Palestinian land and built illegal settlements on it. Israel claims East Jerusalem to be part of Israel but the US, EU, and UN says it belongs to the Palestinians and is illegal for Israel to claim.
As for Iran, it must put national security first and get nuclear bombs to protect its sovereignty, regardless of the consequences. Moreover, it is imperative that Iran or an arab country get nuclear bombs to counterbalance those of Israel, and equalize the balance of power in the Middle East. Otherwise, there will be no peace in the Middle East.
Like all institutions on the earth, Israel has been hijacked by the Old World Orders Corporatocracy.
These called Islamic “extremists” are in reality those who wish to liberate their brother Israel, not wipe it off the face of the earth, from those wishing to control the worlds resources.
The real question is; Who or what is this “Corporatocracy”?
Are they the testers of our resolve as The Law of One and other related material suggests?
There is a much bigger picture here to consider, yet most seem blind.