Issam Makhoul is chairperson of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa. He was a member of the Knesset in 1999-2006 for the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) and the only MK to have raised the nuclear question for debate before the Knesset plenum. Makhoul is a member of the International Planning Committee for the May 2010 NPT Review Conference.
The ideology behind the old nuclear order is becoming obsolete, and a new initiative
toward a nuclear-free world is crucial for any peaceful solution in the Middle East.