https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-us-pretence-israel-nuclear-weapons
Perhaps Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who I respect and admire should stick to church theology and leave the Middle East to the experts. I realize that Mr Tutu is held in very high regard in SA and I am focusing on his signalling out of Israel, not his good character.
It would be crazy to expect the State of Israel to give up or have given up her nuclear weapons, considering the Islamic Republic of Iran wants 'to wipe her off the map'. Although they will probably never be used; it is a very clear and direct signal to the mullah's, NOT to provoke Israel into a war.
But let us also focus on the fact that he singles out only the State of Israel. Many other less democratic nations possess nuclear weapons, but does he single them out?
It could also be his skewed stance on the "Palestinian" issue. First off, they don't want to live side by side with the Jewish State, at least the leadership doesn't. That leadership is in the direct pay of the Islamic clergy in Iran.
The church as should the "Palestinians" put it out of their heads - there will never be an independent Palestine in the areas captured in 1967 for one very simple reason; Palestine never ever existed at any time in the history of the region. And not because successive Israeli government have not wanted a day of peace, but because the leadership of the PLO's only desire is to see the Jewish State gone and dead.
Israel has every right under international law to protect her citizens from harm; be it terrorism or rockets.
Why should the State of Israel have to put up with this behaviour from these people? Because she is that tiny shitty country that everyone would rather would vanish off the face of the earth.
Let me give you an inside scoop; even if, God Forbid, the Israeli's left the area, there still would not be peace. The inter-tribal hatred between the various factions in the Middle East go back centuries and have been played out with a viciousness, brutality and cruelty, that boggles the Western mind, but is completely normal in settling old scores among the Arab people.
Just cast your memories back to the Middle East of the 1970's and 1980's when you had people like Colonel Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein and Hafez Assad roaming the world stage with weapons a thousand times more deadly than the nuclear weapons that Israel possesses. All three dictators were not afraid to use the most hideous of weapons or even gas to silence their opponents.
Can you imagine Israel without nuclear weapons?
What the Right Reverend Archbishop Desmond Tutu should rather be drawing the worlds attention to is the unspeakable and inhumane treatment of the people of the Gaza Strip who are forced AGAINST their will to fight Israeli soldiers. Kids are forced to out of their schools and forced by armed men and their own fathers to go and provoke Israeli soldiers into a confrontation. Is this normal?
Why should Israel not be permitted to protect herself???
And the notion that The State of Israel "practices" Apartheid - separate development is first off a direct slap in the face for the millions of South Africans who had to endure that utterly racist system for forty-six years.
Israel has judges, politicians, ministers, members of parliament, teachers of ALL ethnic backgrounds; Druze, Christian, Jewish, Ethiopian, African, Ashkenazi, Mizrachi and Sephardic. There is not one place in Israel that bars, restricts or forbids racial mixing. Not on the buses, not on the park benches, not in the post office and certainly not on the beaches.
It is a massive crime against humanity to proclaim the Israel practices this horrific form of racial separation, a nation born out of the ashes of the Holocaust.
Israeli Jews and Muslims are free to inter-marry, have relationships and live together. They are permitted to vote and serve in the army.
Meanwhile in the areas under the dictatorship of Hamas and Fatah; gay and lesbian people have NO rights whatsoever. Some areas even bar Israeli's from entering.
An Arab judge sent a former president and prime minister to jail for corruption. Think about that.
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