title.gif (31950 bytes)Israeli Whistleblowers Against Atomic Holocaust

Source : Fax 00-972-9-7413969, 03/02/1998

Threat or Ban?

The tension with Iraq and the possible use of mass-destruction weapons raises again the issue of policy concerning mass-destruction weapons : what do we prefer?

To construct, and hoard, mass-destruction weapons, living permanently with the possibility that they might be used any minute?
A ban on their construction and hoarding in every State in the Middle-
East, enforced by International supervision in every State in the region?

Israel is most vulnerable to mass-destruction weapons due to its small size and the fact that most its inhabitants are concentrated in two urban areas around Tel-Aviv and Haifa. If these two areas are hit by such weapons - and there is no way to prevent this absolutely - hundreds of thousand will be hit.

No Israeli retaliation -whatever damage it inflicts on the other side - will help the hundreds of thousand hit in Israel.

Israel can make a positive contribution to solve the present crisis and to defuse the Middle-East from mass-destruction weapons by declaring its support for a ban on the construction and hoarding of mass-destruction weapons in every state in the region.

This will make the task of implementing such a policy easier.

What do you Prefer?

To ban such weapons?
Use them as a threat?