But you do not have the moral authority to judge who is fit to use them. As I said, everyone must be considered fit to posses nuclear weapons until such a time a time as they use them. Its the whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing.
And again, whether a country is a democracy or a dictatorship is irrelevant in this case. In both cases, you have a very small group of people deciding whether or not to use the nukes. Sandwich, you say that Israel is a democracy, so that is why they are fit to posess nuclear weapons. But, do you think that there would bea referendum or anything of the sort if it came down to using the weapons? Hell no. Sharon or whoever would just say Yes or No, and that would be it.
And since you brought it up, no, I don't think that the current Israeli administration is responsible to anyone. Certainly not to the international community, that one should be obvious. Not to international law, again obvious.
Now, are they responsible to the Israeli people? To some extent they are, every four years. In between, they can do as they damn well please, and thats exactly what they do. But keep in mind, that the fear of the big bad boogyman that held the American people in its grip after 9/11 and allowed such laws as the PATRIOT Act t be passed is much more common in Israel. You are a better judge of this than I am of course, but it seems to me that Sharon is using the fear of terrorism to take the power out of the hands of the people.
In every national crisis, such as 9/11, people gladly give up their civil liberties and their democratic rights to influence government for protection and security. Normally, if the government is doing something that I don't like, I feel that I have a right to dissent and attempt to change those policies. But if you are constantly being told that there is a crazed suicide bomber just around the corner, and only Sharon can keep you safe, than you keep your mouth shut despite the fact that you disagree with what he's doing. I think this fear or terrorism plays a big part in Israeli politics. I mean, not just external, but also internal. So, when election time comes, Sharon goes out there and he tells the Israeli people "look, if you want be safe, vote for me". I mean, that utter nonsense, but thats what he says. And people buy it, cause he has a zero tolerance stance on terrorism, and that what people think is keeping them safe.
But in truth, if you were to elect a more moderate PM, one who would address the Palestinian's grievance instead of just trying to drown out their cries with gunfire, Israel would be a much safer place. Every time the IDF goes into the camps and kill 10 militants, it creates 20 more to take their place. You can't win this by attacking the people who attack you. You attack them because they attack you, and they attack you becausr you attack them. So, there's no way out.
And even when there is a short ceasefire that could potentially lead to peace, Sharon ****s it up by ordering an asassination which of course provokes the Palestinians to attack. Sharon is not interested in peace, because if peace ever came he would be gone in a second.
Hamas and Hezbollah don't want to kill all the Jews or whatever you say. They just want to live in peace and have the right of slef determination, just like every person on this planet. If they were interested in anhilliating you, they would not agree to truce after truce and truce. But they do.
