MB Civic

“[AIPAC’s] rhetoric encourages Americans to believe that Iran’s nuclear program poses ‘an existential threat’ to Israel that could, if unchecked, justify Tel Aviv in launching a pre-emptive military strike … From its point of view, Israel faces at worst the same nuclear standoff that the United States faced with the Soviet Union. More likely, the Israelis will continue to have the first-strike nuclear capability to demolish Iran without having to fear a nuclear counterattack. Neither scenario poses ‘an existential threat’ to Israel. Neither justifies a pre-emptive strike. And continuing to threaten one only encourages the Iranians to believe that they do, in fact, need nuclear weapons of their own” – Weissman .. read more