05.08.09
Nuclear-free Middle East
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This letter was send to President Obama. The Washington Post refused to publish it in a form of an article. Please help to publish it as wide as possible. It is time for the international community to confront Israel on this issue.
Best,
Gideon
Gideon Spiro , Journalist
P.O.Box 16202 Tel Aviv 61161 Israel
Tel/Fax +972 (0) 3 5222 869
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April 19, 2009
President Barack Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington DC 20500
United States
Dear Mr. President,
I am an Israeli journalist and human rights activist writing to ask for your intervention in preventing nuclear conflagaration in the Middle East .
On April 17 2009, the prestigious Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which is often referred to as “Israel’s New York Times ,” published an oped – authored by its senior commentator on military and security affairs – calling for Israeli military action against the Iranian nuclear project.
When a newspaper that is considered liberal and moderate publishes such an article – at a time when an extreme right-wing government is assuming power – alarm bells should start ringing.
The task of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear arms is an important one, and the way to achieve that objective is not by military action, but through an international effort to create a Middle East free of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It is impossible to achieve that objective without dealing with the main cause of the Middle East nuclear arms race – Israel .
Yossi Melman, I Would Advise Netanyahu to Attack Iran, Haaretz , http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078897.html