Not that I want to spoil anyone's day, but historian Benny Morris's column about Iran, Israel and the Bomb makes very depressing reading. Is this a glimpse of the future?
Some of the dead will inevitably be Arab, for 1.3 million of Israel's citizens are Arab and another 3.5 million Arabs live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It is doubtful whether such a mass killing of fellow Muslims will trouble Mr. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs. The Iranians don't especially like Arabs, especially Sunni Arabs, with whom they have intermittently warred for centuries. And they have an especial contempt for the Sunni Palestinians, who despite their initially outnumbering the Jews by more than 10 to 1, failed to prevent the Jews from establishing their state or taking over all of Palestine.
MORE: A glimmer of good news... Anne Applebaum welcomes a statement from a group of exiled intellectuals who were appalled by that recent Holocaust conference in Teheran:
If nothing else, it demonstrates that there is another Iran: an Iran that admires neither Ahmadinejad nor the Islamic "establishment" that now opposes him, an Iran that believes in open engagement with the West and an open discussion of history.
The full text of the document can be read here.
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