Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/10-0
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The Iranian threat
Z Magazine
by Noam Chomsky
07/10
No sane person wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons; or anyone. One obvious way to mitigate or eliminate this threat is to establish a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East. The issue arose (again) at the NPT conference at United Nations headquarters in early May 2010. Egypt, as chair of the 118 nations of the Non-Aligned Movement, proposed that the conference back a plan calling for the start of negotiations in 2011 on a Middle East NWFZ, as had been agreed by the West, including the U.S., at the 1995 review conference on the NPT. Washington still formally agrees, but insists that Israel be exempted — and has given no hint of allowing such provisions to apply to itself...
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-iranian-threat-by-noam-chomsky-1
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iran/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Chomsky
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The Iranian threat
Z Magazine
by Noam Chomsky
07/10
No sane person wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons; or anyone. One obvious way to mitigate or eliminate this threat is to establish a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East. The issue arose (again) at the NPT conference at United Nations headquarters in early May 2010. Egypt, as chair of the 118 nations of the Non-Aligned Movement, proposed that the conference back a plan calling for the start of negotiations in 2011 on a Middle East NWFZ, as had been agreed by the West, including the U.S., at the 1995 review conference on the NPT. Washington still formally agrees, but insists that Israel be exempted — and has given no hint of allowing such provisions to apply to itself...
http://www.zcommunications.org/the-iranian-threat-by-noam-chomsky-1
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/topics/Iran/
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Lobe
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Chomsky
rudkla - 11. Jul, 22:41
