[National Post-Canada] George Jonas - In a weekend conversation with Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren, CNN program host Fareed Zakaria demonstrated the leading edge of current political thinking. He pressed Oren to admit that Israel is terribly upset about Iran developing nuclear technology. Having secured the ambassador's agreement that Israel wasn't ecstatic about it, Zakaria demanded to know why. The message Zakaria conveyed was: The problem isn't Iran developing nuclear technology; the problem is Israel being unable to tolerate it. If nuclear proliferation is too hard or ideologically uncomfortable to prevent, just say it's no problem. Equating the sensitivities of Israel, a country threatened with annihilation, with the sensitivities of the country that's doing the threatening is a new low in two-cent sophistry. It isn't Israel that's offended by Iran's very existence; it's the other way around. The Jewish state has no hostile designs on the Islamic Republic; it's the Islamic Republic that has hostile designs on the Jewish state. Israel's nuclear technology reduces the risk of war; Iran's nuclear technology increases it. The bomb in Israel's hand fosters peace in the region; the bomb in Iran's hand threatens war.
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