Today’s poison pen comes from veteran cartoonist Nicholas Garland at the Daily Telegraph:
UK readers might understand the cartoon in a slightly different context — revelations that knife crimes claim 60 victims a day, a shocking 35 percent rise in parts of the UK.
Nonetheless, as Colin Rubinstein aptly pointed out (before Iran’s discredited missile test), there’s no comparison between Israeli and Iranian atomic programs:
Despite parallels drawn to Israel’s alleged nuclear capability, Israel is not violating international commitments (it didn’t sign the NPT); it hasn’t threatened to use nuclear weapons against its neighbours (it doesn’t even confirm it has them); and its neighbours haven’t sought a similar hedge against it.
