Iran's nukes in exchange for peace with Israel

[dreamdancer 0]

interesting...

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One of the best-known sayings bandied about in this region is that "Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East." This has been the official position of successive Israeli governments. What is less known is that after a comprehensive, regional peace agreement is reached, Israel will support a regional decommissioning of nuclear weapons. Recently, President Shimon Peres personally confirmed to me that this was the policy he had presented to the world when he served as prime minister. He added that as far as he knows, this policy remains in effect to this day.

Let us assume that tomorrow Iran informs its American interlocutors that it will cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, abide by all United Nations resolutions relating to nuclear weapons, and recognize Israel - but on two conditions: first, that Iran will receive assurances from the international community that it will immediately act to implement UN resolutions calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state in territories conquered in 1967, and a commitment to expedite the end of Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights; secondly, that Israel be forced to open its reactor in Dimona to IAEA inspectors, to ensure that the country has developed nuclear energy solely for peaceful purposes rather than for producing dozens of atomic bombs, which foreign press reports say do, in fact, exist.

Is this a scenario for the distant future? Not necessarily. During a meeting among the foreign ministers of Muslim states that took place in Tehran in May 2003, Iran - then led by president Mohammad Khatami - voted in favor of the Arab League peace initiative introduced in March 2002. According to the initiative, which has since become part of the road map as well as UN Security Council Resolution 1515, the Arab League would offer Israel full, normalized relations in exchange for a total withdrawal from the territories.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1118894.html

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[kelpdiver 2]

Israel has never even officially admitted to having nukes, and I don't imagine them ever giving them up for the promise of peace, since no Arab leader has been able to deliver such a promise. There's always a subfaction who will ignore that promise, or assassinate that leader.

Also, I wouldn't trust that Israel would never launch a first strike. Given their geography, it would be difficult for them to launch a counterstrike.

[rushmc 23]

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Israel has never even officially admitted to having nukes, and I don't imagine them ever giving them up for the promise of peace, since no Arab leader has been able to deliver such a promise. There's always a subfaction who will ignore that promise, or assassinate that leader.

Also, I wouldn't trust that Israel would never launch a first strike. Given their geography, it would be difficult for them to launch a counterstrike.

Good points. IF they are to counterstrike, they would need someone (who can stay awake) sitting there with their thumb on the "button"

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[wayneflorida 0]

I beleive Israel has nuke subs.

There will never be peace in that region. Not until it's
a sheet of glass and then the process will start over again.

[dreamdancer 0]

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There's always a subfaction who will ignore that promise, or assassinate that leader.

like rabin...

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[Andy9o8 2]

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There's always a subfaction who will ignore that promise, or assassinate that leader.

like rabin...

Or Sadat.