While, after Jeffrey Goldberg’s lengthy article last week, a heated debate at The Atlantic currently discusses pros and cons of bombing Iran and its nuclear facilities, and former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton warns that Israel and the US are going to miss an almost historical chance to destroy the Bushehr light water reactor before it is loaded [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Just Testing
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged China, Cold War, France, India, Israel, North Korea, nuclear non-proliferation, nuclear overkill, Pakistan, post WWII, South Africa, UK, USA, Vela Incident on August 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Two nuclear bombings and an incredible number of nuclear tests between 1945 and 1998 with the emerging of new nuclear powers. The test on 9 October 2006 by North Korea has obviously not been taken seriously, neither has been that in September 1977 which was conducted by apartheid regime South Africa probably in collaboration with [...]
Provocations
Posted in Islam, Judaism, Religion, tagged Al Aqsa Mosque, Al-Khalil, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dome of the Rock, Hebron, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestine, Purim, West Bank on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Clashes between Jews and Palestinians on the occasion of Purim are commonplace. In Hebron, or rather Al Khalil in the West Bank, they seem to escalate these days since the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he wanted the so called Cave of Machpelah, i.e., Abraham’s tomb, to be included in his national heritage [...]