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The New Nuclear Arab World
By Micah Halpern

Saturday Sept. 9, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

The Arab League just announced that they intend to:
develop "and use nuclear energy peacefully."
Amir Moussa the Secretary General of the Arab League made the announcement saying that they decided to:
"use the right granted them" as signers of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

That is what they said.
This what they mean:
* It is a classic Arab statement of challenge.
* They are challenging Iran - which is not a member of the Arab League.
* If Iran (a Shiite Nation) can have nuclear energy then we (the Sunnis) must have nuclear energy.
* It is a statement of Arab honor taunting the US and their anti-nuclear stance.
* Iran has gotten such positive play in the Arab and Muslim world by their defiance of the United States that the Arab League will do the same hoping for the same benefits on the "street".

The reality is that only Saudi Arabia and Egypt would want to develop the nuclear option at this stage and use it as a natural check against Iran.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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