Buddy Larsen: I’m with C4 on Israel –i don’t think she should get special treatment either, and as soon her 500 million neighbors quit trying to obliterate her, then no more of that special treatment –whatever it is.

Whatever it is? Of all the nations in the world stockpiling nuclear weapons, only India, Pakistan, and Israel have declined to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and only Israel is immune to US pressure to sign said treaty. The diplomatic trick we use is that Israel remains “ambiguous” about their stockpile, but that is no longer true since Olmert said, “Iran openly, explicitly, and publicly threatens to whip Israel off the map Can you say that this is the same level when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as America, France, Israel, Russia?” So that is what I mean by special rights.