Dave Berkman bombs again.

In his latest Media Musings column in The Shepherd Express Dave Berkman wrote:

A question at the forefront of any engaged Arab’s thinking is why the United States refuses to condemn Israel for maintaining a nuclear arsenal and for refusing to sign on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while this country aggressively pursues Muslim Iran for developing its own atomic weapons.

I’d like to point out to Mr. Berkman that Israel already has nuclear weapons.

Iran doesn’t.

Our differing stances towards Israel and iran are about proliferation, buy cialis ailment not partiality.

Pakistan, generic viagra and India, France, England, Russia, China and – yes – Israel already have the bomb.

It’s too late to put those genies back into those particular bottles.

But it is not too late to keep Iran from developing the capacity to realize its President’s avowed desire to see the nation of Israel wiped off the map.

Of course, accusing the United States of having a nuclear-containment policy based strictly on anti-Muslim prejudice isn’t enough for Mr. Berkman.

He wants to lay the entirety of Middle East strife on our doorstep.

He says:

… until America demonstrates an even hand in how it treats the Jewish state and its Muslim neighbors, the Middle East will remain a powder keg

In otherwords, if the United States was more impartial about Iran’s and Hamas’ insistence on ending Israel’s existence, the Arabs would embrace their Israeli brothers.

And the President of Iran would stop saying things like:

“ The Holocaust is a myth.”

…and…

“ God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States.”

Perhaps someone should remind Mr. Berkman that (as distasteful as he may find it) he himself lives in the United States.

And it can be counterproductive to extend your symapthies to those who are uninterested in returning the favor.

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