Discussion with Gilad Atzmon: Touching Left, Islam, Israel Lobby, Chomsky and many other hot topics by Gilad Atzmon http://www.tlaxcala.es/pp.asp?reference=10807&lg=en

MC: Israel has been funded and encouraged to develop a nuclear arsenal of several hundred warheads, while the Iranians who do not even have one, but who control a lot of oil, are deemed to be a threat to world peace. Frankly, in these circumstances the Iranians and others would be justified in thinking they need some means of defending themselves against the only real threat at present-

and against those who are in fact being the most provocative as well as doing the vast majority of the killing: US-Israel.GA: This is indeed a very valid point. From an Iranian perspective, nuclear military capacity is a defensive means. The Iranians are constantly under a nuclear threat and so are the rest of the countries in the region and beyond