Listen…lets just simmer down here with the Muslims wanting to kill Jews and and JEws defend themselves and holocaust ..hitker..and concentration camps,,..and terrorist and Jihad and all that idiotic jargon.

Lets talk for real.

Israel, if it wants peace..should reach out. PERIOD.

During the Yom Kippur war in 1973 Israel being taken by surprise and wasnt ready and suffered heavy losses in the early days of the war and to turn the war around Israel needed new weapons a request was made to the United States but they refused to give anything and then Golda told the Americans straight my finger is on the trigger ( nukes ) overnight the Americans were sending everything they had suddenly it was in their best interests to see Israel win this war before they were on the sidelines trying to decide what would help Americas interests best.

Its only after 1973 that the anual US millitary aid started and that aid has killed Israels own arms industry .. F16 killd the Lavi, Lebanon threw a lifelione to the merkava project Peretz and Olmert had decided to kill the program buy American tanks in future with aid, as soon as the Americans have a decent substiute the arrow missle defense system will be killed off and off the shelf American will be purchased with aid.

Sharon and Mofaz also did a deal to give the US a virtual veto on sales of all Iisraeli weapons even if they contained no American technology so now if the US dont like what Israel is selling they say dont sell it and Israel wont sell.
Israels phalcon an Israeli designed version of the American AWACS a multi billion dollar sale to China was agreed on money exchanged hands the US didnt want China having that sort of technoilogy so it used its muscle and Israel cancled the sale, returned the money and had to pay around $500 million in compensation ( paid for by the taxpayer not the Americans who forced Israel to cancel the sale )

The reason that Egypt reguarly calls on Israel to sign the Neuclear non proliferation treaty and agree to a neuclear free Middle East is because the Americans told them to .. the US does not want a neuclear Israel but as its to politicly sensative for them to say so direct they get an arab to do it and be sure once Iran is dealt with the US will start calling for region free of WMDS Iraq started the idea of being against WMDS.

Israel is in today so deep in Americas pocket its sometimes hard for Israel to justify calling itself an indipendent state rather than another American one.

Sadly in Israel itself for over a decade now the idea of a peace proecess has made Israels left the domient players in politics and if the arabs and Iran start talking about neuclear free or even WMDS free Middle East the left will start saying this is good for peace lets get rid of those nukes now.

Also the right wing in Israel if they feel it will be good for the economy to get rid of the nukes take the attiutude we dont need them anymore then they will end the neuclear program overnight all the US has to do is promise to keep Israel under some kind of American neuclear umbrella where the US will promise to nuke anybody that tries to wipe out Israel.

Allthough the neuclear weapons do benefit Israel a great deal they cannot be a first strike choice of weapons, what happens if one of the Iranian mullahs ignores Israels promise to nuke any country that attacks Israel to destroy it but Allah told the mullahs that israels destruction was justified but the mullahs deciode to use conventiuonal weapons.

Israel would be given 2 choices either nuke Iran to stop the war or you need a strong conventional millitary as well to repel any invading army.
What if Syria or Egypt decided to try destroy Israel because of the geography a neuclear weapon might end up causing fallout which would affect Israel also so a neuclear retaliation would only end up harming Israel so Israel cannot rely on a neuclear deterent to stop attacks from enemy states wishing to destroy it. The nukes must be a weapon that have their place but in an order the same way as in conventional warfare today the airforce will go first then the ground forces the nukes would be a last resort.

The big problem as far as Israels neuclear problems are

1) The United States with their political and economic influence in Israel

2) Israels left wing who dream of peace and would be quite happy to give up the nukes if it was attached to the P word

3) Israels right wing who say we can save all this money if we give up these weapons we dont need if the Americans promise to look after us.

What Israel does need to do is start looking at ways of decreaing its depense on the Americans so it is free to make its own decisions, invest more in the homegrown industries create jobs and make more of an effort to export products an example is the merkava tank legaly the merkava 3 is avalible for export but no efforts are made to export merkava its just a display piece at defense exhebitions show what Israel makes but what it doesnt encourage anybody to buy.

American vetos on Israels arms exports must stop its wrong any indipendent state should be told who they can and cannot sell their own homegrown technology to.

Allthough Israel does need to become more like an indipendent state and less like an American puppet it should not simply break ties with the Americans they should be treated as a valuable ALLY but not allowed to become MASTERS in all but name.
Israel needs to get more support from jews outsidre the US as well especialy the EU it needs MANY FRIENDS not just rely on the US the world changes politcal support changes so Israel needs to friends with as many growing powers as possible but also to stay on the right side of the Americans without becoming their pupets.