Both American and Israeli intelligence have known about Iran's so-called undisclosed nuclear energy facility for more than a year. But Israel is using it as a further excuse for a claimed pre-emptive attack on Iran before the end of this year.

Iran, currently, has no nuclear weapons and is estimated to be unable to make even one small nuclear device for at least a year or longer.

On the other hand, Israel is estimated to now have a secret stockpile of between 250-450 nuclear warheads together with delivery systems by air, ground and nuclear-armed submarine. These are reported to be operational and ready to strike anywhere in the Middle East, the Gulf or the Mediterranean.

That is the frightening scenario - not Iran who is a signatory to both the NPT and the IAEA, but Israel who is a signatory to neither one and whose massive nuclear arsenal is uninspected and unknown. That is the urgent predicament of the international community.

The nuclear arms reduction as proposed by the US and agreed by existing nuclear weapon states, DOES NOT APPLY TO ISRAEL who still refuses to admit to nuclear arms possession. That means that the US, UK, Russia, France and China, and hopefully India and Pakistan, will start to reduce nuclear weapon stockpiles whilst Israel can continue to increase its massive clandestine arsenal.

We are fast-forwarding to a world where the Middle East could be in flames, international oil supplies cut, stock markets collapsed, economies failing and our living costs escalated to a point that is inconceivable to imagine.

For what reason?   So as Israel can extend its illegal occupation of Palestinian land. 

Surely, now is the time for all peace-loving people to stand-up and declare that enough is enough!  The time for the Israeli lobby to impose its agenda, not only upon the US electorate, but on the entire free world, must be ended!

What we can do is to persuade the European Parliament to immediately SUSPEND the EU-Israel Association Agreement that gives Israel free access to all European markets, and to STOP the bilateral trade that makes up over one third of Israel's GDP.

Only by applying that pressure can we deliver change and ensure that the world economy is not severely damaged as a consequence of the agenda of political Zionism.

Judaism is an ancient religion that prohibits the killing of innocents or the oppression of another people.

Zionism is a secular, political movement barely 100 years old, that seeks hegemony in the Middle East.  

Contrary to often misplaced belief - there is little if any commonality between the two. Judaism teaches the sanctity of all life, the essential importance of human and civil rights, the equality of justice and respect for the law.

That both Palestinian and Israeli should have secure, independent states, is a given and there is an imperative to impose, and if necessary to police, a solution now. The world is tired, frustrated and frightened by the consequences of the intransigence of over half a century.

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