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Analysts: Israel viewed as world's 6th nuclear power
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Published: 10.04.10, 10:10
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31. #24 - yeah Sarah Palin is very smart HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(04.10.10)
32. #1, 200 nuke warheads r more than enough for 1/2 world ppln
observer   (04.10.10)
33. On our feet
Yonatan ,   USA   (04.10.10)
No one with any true sense of history believes that Israel isn't in mortal danger every day of its existence. They endure threats at a level and quantity no other country does. The Jews are quite used to this. This is the nature of our existence. But finnaly we are starting to learn the lessons of our past and are prepared to go down fighting. I myself lost 200 cousins in France alone during the Shaoh. Their neigbors eagerly handed them over to the Nazis and on to the cattle cars they went. If we go down again this time at least we go down fighting. And those of us who survive will face a world who fully understands the consequences of trying to exterminate us or cull our numbers.
34. "Ready in three days" is not good enough...
Rivkah   (04.10.10)
The head of the German Greens Party Juergen Trittin told Deutsche Welle, "Germany is a de facto nuclear power. Every morning German pilots train to use nuclear weapons..." This was quoted in The Trumpet Weekly email newsletter April 10,2010, page 3&4. Germans are ready every day to nuke enemies, but Israel would have to wait days to be ready?
35. funny
just want to comment ,   america -> israel   (04.10.10)
I read these comments just to laugh at all the ignorant people that exist in the world, and wonder how do people get this way? As an American who made aliyah to Israel, I am dissapointed in my previous country and dissapointed that I voted for Obama when I was in America. I don't always agree with Israel politics and at times thought about returning to America. But now, I am embarassed by Obama and his take on the Middle East. I didn't know the situation here until I moved here, and I hate how people can be so anti-semetic against Israel and the Jewish People. It really dumbfounds me. How can people judge us Israelis without even knowing us? We have never chanted death to america, unlike arab countries which the US now supports over Israel? We need to have security here in Israel because of countries who write in their constitution death to Israel. And it blows my mind that people support Arab countries who promote terrorism especially through suicide bombers. It really blows my mind. And a lot of the anti-semites are Christian and they thank they are safe from the up and coming arab countries who denounce the West. After they try for the Jews, they are coming for you next. In the end, I believe everybody will get theirs....
36. #25 Israel must be ready
Wespe ,   Canada   (04.10.10)
My family lost 1 in the war. I was named after him. My grandfather was a surgeon in the war. He saved many multiples of your 46. You may be Jewish, but to say you suffered any more than anyone else from the war is entirely incorrect. It's tragic what you have lost, but at the same time it doesn't justify victimizing the Palestinians or maintaining the same racist mentality as the Nazis (or more correctly, Europeans). What does "Love Thy Neighbor" mean to you?
37. #22 really?
ben Ish   (04.10.10)
You "KNOW" personally? If you "KNOW", then why are you GUESSING at 300 to 400?
38. common sense
ben Ish   (04.10.10)
a) You can't make Plutonium out of sand and rocks. b) The exact output of Dimona is well known. c) Therefore, there is an outside limit on how much material Israel can accumulate in the entire history of Dimona production. At 100% utilization, a maximum of 400 warheads > 450kt, and more likely in the 120kt range. It is extremely unlikely that 100% of Dimona production has been converted into functioning nuclear warheads. Without going into all the various considerations, the reasonable outlay would be 80% usable material, ~70% enriched, 60% utilized, and at best, half of this fabricated and half of it stored. Resulting in ~120 functional and 100-150 stored for assembly. There is no fathomable reason for diverting economic resources to create and maintain anything beyond this.
39. #36
ben Ish   (04.10.10)
Right here: Luke 10:30-37 Or do you suggest that sharing a border a border magically converts the heinous into a pacifist? Perhaps you are suggesting that there is no such thing as evil people. (except Jews, is that it?) Perhaps you are suggesting that we should "turn the other cheek" when we see psychotic murderers running towards us with explosive vests? Well? Which? If you disarm a robber, are you not oppressing the robber? If you jail a thief, are you not oppressing the thief? Israel constructs a fence to PROTECT it's own from random acts of murder, but ignorance like yours convinces the world that Israel is oppressing Palestinians from their right to murder innocent Jews. Anyone attempting to draw a parallel of Jewish self-preservation to Nazism, is openly declaring a personal commitment to indulge in ignorance. For your edification, I submit that fanaticism and extremism are not the same as objectivity and credibility.
40. Ben Ish
Wespe ,   Canada   (04.10.10)
Israel constructs a fence but it does so on someone else's land. In fact, Israel doesn't even define its own borders - policy of ambiguity! Many Jews in Israel and the West Bank are as fanatical and extremist as any in Islam. So the challenge wouldn't be to "turn the other cheek" it would be to "look in the mirror". And as for the roots of racism in religion you only have to read Joshua to see the parallels between the past and the present. BTW Jesus was Jewish and I don't think he was evil. Were you implying that he was?
41. 3
Zionist forever   (04.10.10)
The US has already nuked 2 cities ( Hiroshima & Nagasaki ) and they have thousands more based on land, sea and air ready to launch at a moments notice on the authorization of 1 man. Israel has never used nukes in combat or threatened to use them. It's weapons are kept unassembled and the PM alone cannot order their use. Seems to me the real threat to the world here is the USA and they must be forced to disarm now and not just a bunch of 40 year old weapons which the US wanted to decommission anyway. Force America to disarm now
42. #38 common sense
Wespe ,   Canada   (04.10.10)
But how much uranium would that require and how much does Israel possess? In terms of economic resources tied up in plutonium stockpile, common sense would says that its excessive. A policy of ambiguity would allow one to maintain a much lower level of warheads and still have an effective deterrent.
43. Metin From Istanbul
David Israel ,   New York, USA   (04.10.10)
May I start by saying ELINE SAGLIK you answered Tayfun very well. I still remember to get my drivers license in Izmir in the early 1970 ies the tester asked me to pay them 100 Turkish lira as bribe. In Izmir there was a special passport desk for only Jewish applicants at the Tepecik police precinct called YAHUDI MASASI and in 1970ies every Jew who asked for a passport was denied at first. Then a civilian dressed police officer would come to your home and ask for a bribe. Today there is no government bid in Turkey where the AKP leadership does not get a big bribe before it is granted to a bidder. President Gul has charges against him for embezzlement during his time at Selamet Partisi. May I say more. Iyi geceler Metin bey. I wish you lots of patience and luck until hopefully AKP is ousted on next elections.
44. if you are that strong then why compliments about iran ??
saher   (04.11.10)
wow to wipe israel of the map you don't need more than 2 bombs may iran buy them first :) this news good for iran not you
45. #16 - I present to you - the Darwin Award
William ,   Israel   (04.11.10)
for somehow surviving even though through Darwinism, you should be become extinct long ago. As Darwinism states - the tribe is only as smart as its dumbest member. Thanks alot DC for bringing down the human race.
46. #23 - the real truth is behind intent
William ,   Israel   (04.11.10)
and according to many records of WWII, the intent of war commanders of the allied forces was never to liberate the concentration camps nor to stop the wholesale slaughter of Jews. It was first and foremost to stop Germany and save the Western culture. Jerome's points ring true, especially with events like send boats full of Jewish refugees back to Germany to be slaughtered, and the Brits blocking Jews from entering the British Mandate in order to appease the oil-supplying Arabs.
47. #28 - What do you call Hizbullah and Hamas?
William ,   Israel   (04.11.10)
I call them terror proxies for the Iranian regime's agenda in the region. Iran doesn't have to bomb someone under their own flag to be responsible for the act - infact, that's very much against the law. Iran is not in danger and no one, except Saddam, threatened Iran. However, they have no problem using the majority of their operating budget to fund terror cells and weapons in the Middle East, South America, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Conversely, Israel has never strayed beyond its immediate neighbors and has attacked ONLY in defense. I call placing tons of weapons on Israel's border and shelling their citizens for 4 years a major f***king provocation!! If anything - Arabs are the worlds most dangerous mafia, from the 7th century they've used violence to subdue, oppress, and steal from more than 100 million people, and insist it's their right, which Leftists support. Sorry - but everytime a violent act is committed in the world, it's almost always a Muslim, and never an Israeli. 'nuf said!
48. #38 - there's no nukes in Israel
William ,   Israel   (04.11.10)
it's all for electricity and medical research. Very peaceful means.
49. #36 Wespe, Canada
Ronald ,   New York   (04.11.10)
Do you even understand what you are talking about. WESTERN Europe did not liberate the JEWS. You people are idiots for thinking this. Western Europe and the USA liberated themselves, The remaining Jews were lucky to have the WAR finished during D-Day because no one would of stopped the Nazi's from taking Jewish Lives. If the European's wanted to help the Jews they would of. As for Western Europe and USA helping the Jews get your head out of your a>>, The Soviet's did more for the Jew's then the Western's did. Even tho Stalin did not care for the Jew's anyway. But, all the Jews of the Soviet Union were at least given a chance to survive.
50. #49 Ronald
Wespe ,   Canada   (04.11.10)
I know that in both World Wars the US waited and profited at the expense of Europeans and the rest of the world. When I said "the West" I should have clarified as the Allies because it was the Soviets that liberated the camps. Their efforts and sacrifice were forgotten by the Western powers afterward. However, the German's did offer the Western powers a million jews in exchange for 10,000 trucks for their war in the East. The offer was not acknowledge by the West and the deportation of the Hungarian jews was begun. The jewish leaders there knew of Auschwitz, the offer and their chose not to publicize. What could the US and UK reasonably have done? They were already at war and precision weapons were 50 years away. Most of the jews had already been killed by that point anyway.
51. To #12:
Jerusalem Jew ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (05.01.10)
The USA has learned NOTHING from World War 2 nor from 9/11.Iran is about to acquire nuclear weapons and will not hesitate to launch them at Israel and the West, either directly or through its proxies.The Jewish people have lost ONE WHOLE THIRD during the Holocaust, because of the nazis, but mostly because of retards like you, who appease the muslims.I can assure you that, this time around, the Jews will destroy the whole Western world, before Israel is brought down.The first two targets of Israel's nuclear arsenal will be Mecca and the Vatican.Your idiot of a president, by trying to appease his co-religionists in the Middle East, is actually accelerating the process for the coming war.In the best case he's naive.In the worst case, he is an idiot, who experiments his moronic theories at the expense of Israel's national security. He can go and f--- himself.Wait for November. Obama is finished. The USA will soon lose its place as a super-power, thanks to your so-called president.
52. Iran and Nukes
Steve ,   Fayetteville USA   (04.27.12)
Iran claims that its nuclear program is for power and medicine. Its missile development program contradicts their lies. Israel has never used a nuke in warfare. It would be reluctant to do so. Only idiots and suicide bombers would light a match in a weapons depot (so to speak). The difference between Israel and Muslim nations is that Israel values life and Muslims value . . . If you can't figure that out you are lost.
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