{"id":1850,"date":"2003-12-24T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2003-12-24T08:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2003-12-24T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2003-12-24T08:03:43","slug":"nuclear_dominos_in_middle_east_topple_will_israel_follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2003\/12\/nuclear_dominos_in_middle_east_topple_will_israel_follow\/","title":{"rendered":": Nuclear Dominos In Middle East Topple: Will Israel Follow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/libya_nukes.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>A series of events of the past week has led to a dramatically different <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com%2Fworld%2F20031223-083556-4033r.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">military landscape<\/a> in the Middle East \u2013 one that promises to leave the entire region (with one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaman.org%2Fdefault.php%3Fkn%3D5678\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">notable exception<\/a>) verifiably free of nuclear weapons.  Most stunning was the declaration of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi of an immediate cessation of all WMD programs with subsequent inspections by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaea.org%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Atomic Energy Agency<\/a> (IAEA), which followed Iran\u2019s agreement to strict spot inspections by the same agency.  Iran followed up its <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.mediamonitors.net%2Fcontent%2Fview%2Ffull%2F2938%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">decision<\/a> to stand down its nuclear program with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paktribune.com%2Fnews%2Findex.php%3Fid%3D49461\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">admission<\/a> that rogue Pakistani nuclear officials sold nuclear secrets to Iran, which left the Pakistani government <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F3792125%2F\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scrambling<\/a> for excuses and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paknews.com%2Fflash.php%3Fid%3D13%26date1%3D2003-12-23\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reassurances<\/a> of secure nuclear assets.  Bush is sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopusa.com%2Fnews%2F2003%2Fdecember%2F1222_libya_ends_wmd.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">take credit<\/a> for the domino effect given Gaddafi\u2019s admission that the outcome of the Iraq war was a factor in his decision, but it also follows a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com%2Fhome_europe%2Fnewswire%2F2003%2F12%2F22%2Frtr1189394.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pattern<\/a> in recent years of Libyan efforts to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com%2Fview.cfm%3FStoryID%3D20031221-101639-5362r\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">good boy<\/a> \u2013 negotiating the <a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg%2Fasia%2Fstory%2F0%2C4386%2C224465%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">freedom<\/a> of hostages in the Phillipines and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk%2Fworld%2Fpolitics%2Fstory.jsp%3Fstory%3D475929\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">settling<\/a> the Lockerbie bombing.  Skeptics will, of course, note that the US and UK didn\u2019t have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com%2FNews24%2FWorld%2FNews%2F0%2C6119%2C2-10-1462_1462919%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">resort to war<\/a> to elminate real WMDs, as opposed to fighting a war in Iraq to eliminate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com%2F2003%2F1219%2FdailyUpdate.html%3Fs%3Dentt\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">non-existent<\/a> WMDs.  In addition, the nuclear cleansing of the Mideast will result in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaman.org%2Fdefault.php%3Fkn%3D5678\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">all eyes<\/a> falling on Israel\u2019s considerable undeclared nuclear arsenal, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2003%2F12%2F24%2F2003084743\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">calls<\/a> for it to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are already beginning \u2013 although the official US position of looking the other way will officially  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretzdaily.com%2Fhasen%2Fspages%2F375226.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">not change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East has declined dramatically with Iran &amp; Libya agreeing to give up nukes and submit to inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: Nuclear Dominos In Middle East Topple: Will Israel Follow?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nuclear proliferation in the Middle East has declined dramatically with Iran &amp; 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