The New York Times: Making Nuclear Extermination Respectable
by James Petras / July 30th, 2008

On July 18, 2008 the New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish
historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal
attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians - 12 times
the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust:

Iran's leaders would do well to rethink their gamble and suspend their
nuclear program. Barring this, the best they could hope for is that Israel's
conventional air assault will destroy their nuclear facilities. To be sure,
this would mean thousands of Iranian casualties and international
humiliation. But the alternative is an Iran turned into a nuclear wasteland.

Morris is a frequent lecturer and consultant to the Israeli political and
military establishment and has unique access to Israeli strategic military
planners. Morris' advocacy and public support of the massive, brutal
expulsion of all Palestinians is on public record. Yet his genocidal views
have not precluded his receiving numerous academic awards. His writings and
views are published in Israel's leading newspapers and journals. Morris'
views are not the idle ranting of a marginal psychopath, as witnessed by the
recent publication of his latest op-ed article in the New York Times.