Netanyahu has unreasonable demands

Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that Iran dismantle its nuclear program isn't going to happen.

Iran can keep a peaceful nuclear program overseen by comprehensive oversight from the U.N. IAE inspectors. Israel's history of the Holocaust and its Masada Complex, which dates back to 100 A.D. where 200 Jewish zealots and their families fled to Masada after their failed rebellion against the Romans and then cut their own throats the night before the Romans were poised to storm the gates rather than surrender to the Romans, colors Netanyahu's world view of never giving an inch or taking any risk for peace.

Israel's own throat cutting and cutting its nose to spite its face could very well be sabotaging the negotiations with Iran and then using the failed negotiations as its excuse to launch its own unilateral attack on Iran. It takes a much braver man to negotiate with his sworn enemy than to launch war against them. Where's Mahat Begin when we need him? Netanyahu has said he wishes Ahmadinejad was still president of Iran, which means Netanyahu is more comfortable with confrontation with Iran than negotiating peace with them.

These negotiations to get Iran to dismantle its heavy water plutonium production reactor and stop all enrichment at 10 percent, below the 20 percent weapons grade threshold, are

hard enough without Netanyahu's childish sniping and unreasonable demands.

Man up, Netanyahu, and show that you can be a brave statesman such as Rabin, Begin and Sadat and that you prefer peace to war.

William Peterson

North Liberty