SIR – Re Iran’s nuclear plans. On Monday, on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the Israeli ambassador refused to rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons in such an attack.
Yet the interviewer didn’t press the point on this, coming from the one country in the Middle East since the Iraq-Iran war (which, remember, Iran didn’t start) to have attacked a neighbouring state, killing more than 1,400 people, and to have imprisoned one of its own citizens, Mordechai Vanunu, for blowing the whistle on its possession of more than 200 nuclear weapons.
In fact, it was only when I was questioned by Mossad in 1969 for declaring in a Tel Aviv bar that the Middle East should be a nuclear-free zone, that I began to realise that, as USA’s surrogate in the Middle East, what a threat to peace Israel represented.
Karl Dallas, Church Green, Bradford
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