For many years, I’ve been running websites devoted to the nuclear-free movement. People have asked me why, over the past two years, I’ve been including news about Israel and Gaza.
What on earth do Israel and Gaza have to do with the pro-nuclear cause?
Well, unfortunately, quite a lot.
Here’s a report from 2015:
“While everyone believes that the Israelis possess a sizable nuclear arsenal, no one really knows how big that arsenal is. In 2008, President Jimmy Carter estimated that Israel probably had a minimum of 150 weapons in stock ready to use if the most dire circumstances warrant. Six years later, the former President revised that estimate and put the figure in the 300 range, which – based on Carter’s calculations – would mean that Israel doubled its arsenal from the 2008-2014 time-period.”
Of course the Israeli government “does not confirm or deny” that they’ve got nuclear weapons, and the cowardly governments that support Israel similarly do not officially confirm it. And of course Israel has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), or participated in any kind of weapons control negotiations.
In Sep 22, 2023 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran at the United Nations of a “nuclear threat” in what his office quickly walked back as a slip of the tongue. In July 2024 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress on Wednesday to achieve “total victory” against Hamas.
The Zionist philosophy means that the Jews are God’s chosen people. And the Islamics certainly are not. The attitude of Israel towards the Palestinians is that they are not the same kind of human being as the Jews are. Indeed, it’s OK to starve Gazan children to death – after all, they are some kind of untermenchen.
Well, the genocide of Gazans is being achieved without any need for nuclear weapons. But what about the other Islamics? There’s Yemen, and there’s Iran. Netanyahu believes that Iran poses an existential threat to the Zionist state, and could make a nuclear weapon in a short period of time, making Israel and even the US unable to defeat or contain it.
To what lengths might Netanyahu go, to prevent that? Bomb Iran’s nuclear sites?
And would Donald Trump, an enthusiastic fan of Israel, support that option.
Here’s Trump, seven months ago, urging Israel to make such a strike:
While I’ve been thinking about this for some time, I was prompted to write about it now, after reading an article by Lucy Hamilton on The AIMN, about the close involvement of Australian pro-nuclear front groups with the Zionist movement.
It’s not only Israel that we must worry about, in Australia, and presumably world-wide. If we aim to be nuclear-free, we are up against a lobby determined to have nuclear-weapons superiority, and the Zionist movement is right up there in that determination.
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This article is quite frankly very frightening at this particular time when war has commenced between India and Pakistan - with - again threats of nuclear weapons. Israel hasn't been stopped from its war and genocidal intentions. Is it because Israel also has nuclear weapons? Russia and Ukraine continue in another war.
Fighting for territorial ground or from ancient beliefs written in some now sacred texts are examples of the quote from Robert Burns:
'Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn"- a quote from Burns; poem 'Man Was Made To Mourn'
Scottish poet Burns b.1759 d. 1796.
We know how to define who is a terrorist, and it seems that Hamas consistently qualify.
Meanwhile we heed the words given to us from the Zionists as if they are some civilized form of life, and of course "special".
If we were to apply the same ground rules to the Zionists, I believe (and tell me I am wrong) they have refined the art of terrorism so that equipped with tanks, and fighter bombers, they can claim to be victims, and squeaky clean whilst going about committing war crimes, genocide, ethnic cleansing. The whole shebang.
When USA loses its supremacy, all this will change but in the meanwhile lets get real about what the Zionist mission is.
Point 2, I have concluded that just about every announcement originating from Israel is a lie. They are consistent, and at the same time they will silence any adverse reporting mostly by assassination.
How about their statement that they are nuclear armed? Is that a lie too, because the only reason we talk to them is because they tell us they have the bomb, and a loony head of state, making us all a bit uneasy.
Testing their veracity could be as simple as breaking into Pine gap, and sifting through the data we find?
Fair enough but one has issues of Anglosphere definitions, perceptions and time due to micro focus on the now, at Israel - Gaza, frequent and glib use of Zionist, anti-Zionist* and anti-semitism, avoiding complexity historically, and now.
US journalist Seth Abramson has a recent and well resarched book series on 'Proof of Conspiracy' related to Israel, Iran, the region & how to use Trump, not just Israel-Gaza; both Netanyahu & Hamas have been friendly with Putin, the former due to so many Russian immigrants to Israel.
Before October 7 the Abraham Accords between Israel-Saudi were near ready to go, and more striking are the grifters and corrupt authoritarian leaders avoding public scrutiny.
Conga line included Mad Moscow Mike & QAnon Flynn, Trump son in law Kushner, Blackwater's Erik Prince, Saudi's MBS**, UAE's MBZ, Egypt's el Sisi, proxies of both Putin and Netanyahu.
See Abramson's Proof of Conspiracy (2019) '......shows how Trump has conspired and colluded with leaders from Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, from even before he won the presidency
In late 2015, convicted pedophile, international dealmaker, and cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation George Nader convened a secret meeting aboard a massive luxury yacht in the Red Sea.
Nader pitched Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and other Middle Eastern leaders a plan for a new pro-U.S., pro-Israel alliance of Arab nations that would fundamentally alter the geopolitics of the Middle East while marginalizing Iran, Qatar, and Turkey.'
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44280819-proof-of-conspiracy
*The cold war Kremlin etc. promoted anti-Zionism as an anti-semitic dog whistle towards Israel (after initial rapport upon Israel's founding, relations chilled); now we have RW white Christian nationalists alleging 'the left is anti-semitic'.
**Apparently using Flynn to access and develop nuclear power, in a nation with unlimited sunshine; alleged they want the 'bomb' to defend against &/or attack Iran.