From the Archive ~ The Israel Factor 2012
From the Archive
The Israel Factor
24 July 2012
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In a 2012 Dispatch an alarm bell rang regarding the potential nuclear threat, concluding that we should not overlook ‘the Israel factor’.
The dispatch referred to Iran.
Today’s events see the Israel factor very much in play. Israel makes it clear in the most direct diplomatic language – one cannot be more blunt – that if Syria’s stockpile falls into the wrong hands, Israel will take such measures as are necessary.
As we count down to the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, let us remember too that Syria is in the grip of a brutal civil war that is, whether we realise it or not, impacting upon everyone of us, today, tomorrow, in the year ahead and the present decade.
Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool
24 July 2012
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Author Note
What was inevitable in 2012 is playing out now eleven years later.
23 June 2025
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
