COMMENT IN THE GUARDIAN CALLS FOR ISRAEL TO DE-NUKE

The Guardian "Comment is free" section today contains an article by Roger Howard, author of "Iran Oil: the New Middle East Challenge and What's Wrong with Liberal Interventionism". In it Howard suggests that Israel should de-nuke and that Washington should pressure Israel to do so.

I think this is the first time I have heard this suggested in the MSM.

From http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1987517,00.html

To dissuade the Iranians from pursuing either goal - nuclear energy or warheads - Washington would have to make massive concessions. It would need to fit the issue into a wider Middle East picture and find ways of making Iran feel less threatened. In return for cessation of uranium enrichment, or for more effective guarantees that it would not be used for a weapons programme, Washington could offer not only to lift all sanctions but also to drop calls for regime change and undertake not to meddle in Iran's domestic affairs; pull back its military presence in the region; and pressure Israel into surrendering or scaling down its nuclear arsenal. Israel talks about its defence against annihilation, but it might be such wider consequences of an Iranian nuclear programme that it really fears.