Israel stays mum as Sunni states clamor for nuclear power

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380695485&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel was noticeably quiet Tuesday, a day after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced a plan to build several nuclear power plants - a proposal heralded in the Egyptian press as a major national project.

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And Israel was noticeably quiet when Yemen signed an agreement last month with a US company to build nuclear plants over the last 10 years.

There are two patterns here. The first is that one Sunni country after another is expressing interest in developing a nuclear program for "peaceful needs," and the second is that Israel is not saying anything, at least publicly, about it.

The first pattern - the blossoming of Sunni-dominated countries that have proclaimed an interest in a civilian nuclear capacity - is due both to Shi'ite Iran and to domestic politics.

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[peacetalksforall]

1. If everyone around Israel has nuclear energy perhaps there might

be peace. With a log of depleted uranium and waste, but better than it is now with constant war. Best - peace with no toxic and deathly leftovers.

[bananas]

2. It won't bring peace

Seems like a lot of people in Iraq and Afghanistan aren't intimidated by the U.S. having nuclear weapons.
Iran certainly hasn't been intimidated by U.S. threats of nuclear bunker-busters or massive conventional bombing.
Saddam Hussein wasn't intimidated by nuclear weapons in 2003 or in 1990.
This myth that there will be peace if everyone has nuclear weapons is false.
There will still be conventional wars - and some of them will escalate to nuclear wars.

[losthills]

3. I see how anyone can deny the connection between nuclear

power and nuclear weapons.

And I don't see how anyone can make a claim that weapons proliferation can make the world safer.

This is sheer madness....