“The Iranian Nuclear Bomb Is No Danger to Israel”

The danger posed by a nuclear Iran is exaggerated. That’s the view Israeli military expert Martin van Creveld expressed in a Junge Freiheit interview.

Prof. Dr. Martin van Creveld teaches history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and advises the defense departments of several nations, among them the U.S. Department of Defense.

Iran doesn’t want the bomb in order to destroy Israel; it wants it in order to eliminate the strategic imbalance posed by the United States. “It makes no difference in which direction Iranian Mullahs look – all they can see is U.S. troops, a quarter-million U.S. soldiers,” Creveld says about Iran’s situation.

Iran learned two things from the Iraq war: First, its own army would have no chance whatsoever against the Americans; second, they cannot be assured that an American president in the future would not decide to invade Iran for whatever reason.

A Serious Crisis Threatens

The real danger doesn’t come from an Iranian nuclear bomb, but rather from an attack on Iran designed to prevent them from getting one. A war in the most oil-rich region on earth could plunge the global economy into a major crisis and have catastrophic political ramifications, Creveld warns.

Creveld suspects that exaggerating the danger is deliberate and calculated. The United States has always tried to prevent other nations from achieving nuclear weapons capability. In Israel’s case, however, Creveld says the motives are different: “Obviously, it’s all about getting money and weapons from countries like the United States or Germany. The Zionists have been playing this little game now for a hundred years — and with great success.”