I Don't Know Why I Try

Mistake, mistake, mistake… It is a mistake for Arab countries to ignore Israel's nuclear military program. Our stance on the Iranian nuclear program is a mistake. Military and political coordination with the United States is a mistake. It is a series of mistakes, […] which do not stop with three, or 30; they are ongoing. The secrecy was finally lifted on old FBI files that must be more than 50 years old. They revealed or confirmed what everyone knew. The Dimona nuclear reactors were French-made, and the enriched fuel came from the US. The documents say that the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) was founded by David Lowenthal, whose earlier specialization was the smuggling of Jews to Palestine, with his partner was Zalman Shapiro, both extremist Zionists. The company, as if by magic, or by the agents of the Zionist lobby, received a contract to handle nuclear waste. It was a front, to smuggle the material to Israel. For the last few decades, all of this and more has been well-known, but what is important is that declassified FBI documents confirm this absolutely. I noticed that the Zionist-owned firm violated US law time and time again, to the degree that it caused a leak of nuclear materials, and escaped punishment. The same thing happened with AIPAC, or the Israeli lobby. It grew out of the American Zionist Committee in 1963, without it or its predecessor registered as the agent of a foreign government. It remained a tax-free charitable association, even though it has spied on the US and seen a number of its agents caught. Most of the spying for Israel cases have ended up in nothing. Either the courts ignore them or the US Justice Department is complicit in them. Stephen Rosen, the former director of AIPAC, escaped a guilty verdict in a case from 2004-2005; instead, he won a slander case, with $20 million in damages. The case showed that AIPAC has engaged in spying a thousand times more than is known, and confirmed how successive American administrations have been complicit with Israel and its agents, who have escaped punishment each time. Of course, Arab states did not try to follow the course outlined above; they were busy fighting the nuclear program of Iran, not Israel, and relying on the US against Tehran. I support the Iranian nuclear program in the face of what Israel has. If I were in a position of power, I would have tried to secure a similar nuclear program. If there were such a program in three or four Arab countries, the US and the entire West would try to make the entire Middle East a WMD-free zone. If this had happened, the Arab states would have killed two birds with one stone, or two military nuclear programs with one stone, and would have been free of the nuclear threat, whether Israeli or Iranian. People, ask Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei about Iran's program. Dr. El-Baradei is above suspicion. He believes that Iran is seeking to acquire the know-how to make a nuclear bomb in the future, but does not have the capacity to do so now. The bomb requires 90 to 95 percent enriched uranium, and Iran can only enrich it to 5 percent. This means that it cannot operate a peaceful reactor, since it requires 19.5 percent enriched uranium. Can a journalist like me know what Arab governments do not? All I am doing is reading, and I am confident that our governments can read. Why don't they do something? I will not try to answer, but rather say that the recent stances by the White House in the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, to UNESCO in Paris, are completely hostile to Arabs and Muslims. We all know that the Arab states try to ask for assistance from America, but the latter's announced policy is one of seeing Israel retain its qualitative military edge over all Arab countries. Let us merely discuss Egypt and Saudi Arabia; they are allies of the US and buy weapons from her. Nonetheless, the US is openly committed to the survival of Israel, where there are six million refugees, orphans and settlers, who are stronger than 110 million Arabs and Muslims in two states, or 300 million Arabs and Muslims in our nation, happy with its people and its ignorance. Has this column convinced anyone to change his stance on Israel, Iran and the US? I don't think so, and I don't know why I try. khazen@alhayat.com