That initiative was first put forward by the Arab states following the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, in which nuclear annihilation threats made by Tel Aviv and Washington played a major part, and it has been endorsed annually by the UN Assembly ever since. In fact, UN Security Council Resolution 687 of 1991 – which provided the basis for all the evils which befell Iraq in the 1990s and beyond – also endorsed the Nuclear Free Middle East initiative.

Therefore I conclude that it was all right if a million Arabs died of deprivation caused by sanctions and no-fly zones, and it’s all right if another million Arabs died subsequent to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq on the pretext of “existential” concerns about a non-existent threat posed by that country’s crippled government and military, but now that another non-Arab country in the region (in addition to Israel, of course) is supposedly posing a threat to the treasured “peace and stability” of the Middle East, it is time to get serious about making that part of the world nuclear free.

Am I getting this right? Let me go throw up…