NEOCONSERVATIVES, LIBYA, ISRAEL AND WMD
Raimondo predicts that the neoconservatives and other enthusiastic pro-warriors will condemn the agreement as a ruse. Why? Because it might put the squeeze on Israel to abandon its own WMD and ease up on other hard-line policies. As if almost on cue, Raimondo’s prediction has been confirmed today in two articles. First,
Joseph Farah frets that Libya’s action will increase “international pressure” on Israel to abandon WMD.
Farah is a pussycat compared to Ariel Natan Pasko who defends the inalienable right of Israel (and no other country in the Middle East) to own WMDs. In what has to be the most priceless neoconservative quote of the week, he uses the pages of the normally secular Frontpage to proclaim: “Sure Israel should 'Ban the Bomb'; When the Messiah comes!”