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Asim, you need to realize that Israel has not pursued hostile policies toward its neighbors when not attacked. You can argue all you want about the legitimacy of the Israeli state itself, but the fact remains Israel has sought peaceful relations with its neighbors when given the chance. They are denied that opportunity time and again.
Israel poses no strategic threat to Iran. Given the opportunity, Israel would seek to establish favorable relations with all of its current adversaries. Israel has a proven track record of not using nuclear weapons and non-proliferation. Sadly, the same cannot be said for states such as Pakistan, a nuclear proliferator whose actions created a situation which poses a serious threat to the world.
You sit here and talk about how Iran, and now, Saudi Arabia should have nuclear weapons, with no idea how many times the world has been a button-push away from nuclear annihilation by a drunk Russian or somebody viewing a faulty radar screen. The Middle East is a tinderbox, and nuclear-armed Middle Eastern states who have proven themselves to be immature and irrational actors on the world stage time and again would pose a far greater threat to the world than the US and Russia ever did during the Cold War.
The Saudi government is nothing more than a bunch of obese, corrupt, illiterate nomads living in palaces erected by oil revenues, three generations out of the Bedouin tent. The current Iranian government is half-ruled by a bunch religious wackjobs, and half-ruled by the Revolutionary Guards, a group of several hundred thousand mafioso-type thugs heavily involved in the most corrupt types of enterprises that bring easy profits.
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