Dear Editor:
There is a rumour that my neighbour is making a knife (almost as big as mine), and it may be that he plans to use that knife to attack me. Therefore I shall kill him. I mean, I have a right to defend myself, don't I?
This is the utter nonsense coming from Israel these days. Iran has a nuclear power program that it, and any other sovereign nation, has a right to pursue. Israel has chosen to believe that it is aimed at making nuclear weapons, but there is no real evidence of this. Israel has labelled Iran a terrorist state, although international polls indicate that Israel is viewed as the country whose foreign policy is the most dangerous to world peace and stability.
But millions of people somehow accept that Israel has a right to protect itself to the extreme of attacking another country suspected of working on a nuclear weapon. So do I have a right to kill my neighbour because I suspect he's making a knife like mine and I suspect he might use it on me?
The dunce cap on top of this insanity is the inference that the Iranians are so suicidally stupid that they would plan on using a nuclear weapon (if they ever made one) against Israel, knowing that Iran would then be vapourized by Israel's nukes and the huge nuclear capability of the U.S.
The whole scenario is so preposterous that anyone whose IQ exceeds his belt size could not possibly take it seriously. Yet Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is actively promoting a preemptive attack on Iran and U.S. President Barack Obama keeps war with Iran in reserve if negotiations fail to halt Iran's nuclear power program, which well may pose no threat to anyone.
Is there some kind of brain disease making the rounds of political leaders these days? How can rational people find themselves in a cataclysmic bind like this?
Tony Eberts, New Westminster
