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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1197183" data-attributes="member: 14668">1. Israel signed the CWC, they just didnt ratify it.2. Israel is surrounded on all sides by overtly hostile nations that either are currently at war with it or have been in the past.3. Israels largest and most powerful neighbors (Egypt and Syria) are not signatories to the CWC either. Both of these nations are hostile to Israel, both of them have or have had stockpiles of chemical weapons and both of these nations have used chemical weapons in the past (Egypt used them against Yemen during the 1963-67 civil war and Syria has used them recently). Israel, on the other hand, has never used chemical or nuclear weapons even when its very survival as a nation was at risk in 1948 and again in 1973. If you lived in a nation that was less than 60 miles wide at its narrowest point and was surrounded on all sides by nations with chemical weapons that were committed to your destruction, you would probably want to have some nukes and chemical weapons too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1197183, member: 14668"] 1. Israel signed the CWC, they just didnt ratify it. 2. Israel is surrounded on all sides by overtly hostile nations that either are currently at war with it or have been in the past. 3. Israels largest and most powerful neighbors (Egypt and Syria) are not signatories to the CWC either. [I]Both[/I] of these nations are hostile to Israel,[I] both[/I] of them have or have had stockpiles of chemical weapons and [I]both [/I]of these nations have [I]used[/I] chemical weapons in the past (Egypt used them against Yemen during the 1963-67 civil war and Syria has used them recently). Israel, on the other hand, has [I]never[/I] used chemical or nuclear weapons even when its very survival as a nation was at risk in 1948 and again in 1973. If [I]you[/I] lived in a nation that was less than 60 miles wide at its narrowest point and was surrounded on all sides by nations with chemical weapons that were committed to your destruction, [I]you [/I]would probably want to have some nukes and chemical weapons too. [/QUOTE]

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