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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=984
The Iranian Nuclear Threat Is Not about Israel
(Israel Hayom) Dore Gold - According to Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's former national security advisor, a poll by the Saban Center in Washington showed that in order to get Iran to give up its nuclear weapons, a majority of Israelis would favor Israel giving up its reported nuclear capabilities. The actual question asked was: "Given a choice of two options, one where both Israel and Iran have nuclear weapons and one where neither has them, 65% of Israeli Jews support the latter while only 19% support the former." Notably, the poll did not offer the Israeli public a third option: namely that Iran be denied nuclear weapons and Israel be left alone. It also did not ask Israelis if Iran could be trusted to live up to a commitment to halt its nuclear program. In addition, why would anyone want to create a link between the Iranian nuclear program and Israel? The intellectual flaw in the Israel-Iran question is the idea that Iran's quest for nuclear weapons is connected primarily to Israel and to what Israel does, rather than the fact that Iran seeks nuclear capability to dominate the Middle East.