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	1	+====Plan Text: Israel ought to adopt Uzi Even's proposal and prohibit nuclear power since Iran has ended nuclear research for military purposes.====
	2	+
	3	+=====Silverstein '12=====
	4	+Richard Silverstein, 8-20-2012, "Leading Israeli Nuclear Scientist Proposing Closing Dimona in Return for Ending Iranian Nuke Program," Tikun Olam תיקון עולם, http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2012/08/20/leading-israeli-nuclear-scientist-proposing-closing-dimona-in-return-for-ending-iranian-nuke-program/
	5	+Uzi Even, one of Israel's leading nuclear scientists, proposed in an article in
	6	+AND
	7	+it moves the debate away from military force and toward a negotiated solution.
	8	+
	9	+
	10	+====To clarify, we do not fiat that Iran ends nuclear research, we say that Israel's ending nuclear power is contingent on Iran ending nuclear research. The nuclear deal fulfills that plank. ====
	11	+
	12	+
	13	+===Inherency===
	14	+
	15	+
	16	+====The Iran nuclear deal has done nothing but appease Iran—proliferation is inevitable====
	17	+
	18	+=====Abrams '15=====
	19	+Elliot Abrams 7/15,senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, "Iran got a far better deal than it had any right to expect," National Review 2015.
	20	+Then, the United States conceded to Iran ~~1~~ the right to have
	21	+AND
	22	+negotiators sat in Vienna and Lausanne smiling across the table at John Kerry.
	23	+
	24	+
	25	+====And, the root cause of Iran's desire to proliferate is Israeli aggression and nuclear power—addressing these concerns is key====
	26	+
	27	+=====Fisher '15=====
	28	+Max Fisher, 2-25-2015, "The real reasons Iran is so committed to its nuclear program," Vox, http://www.vox.com/2015/2/25/8101383/iran-nuclear-reasons
	29	+"Tehran wanted to guard against a future surprise analogous to Iraq's repeated use of
	30	+AND
	31	+want a nuclear deterrent, which only makes the US threaten more strenuously.
	32	+
	33	+
	34	+==Advantages (3:20)==
	35	+
	36	+
	37	+===Advantage 1: Stability (1:15)===
	38	+
	39	+
	40	+====Arabian instability is building now—border escalation proves====
	41	+
	42	+=====Crooke 7-6=====
	43	+Alastair Crooke (Fmr. MI-6 agent; Author, 'Resistance: The Essence of Islamic Revolution'), 7-6-2016, "Is Israel Preparing for War Against Hezbollah?," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/israel-war-hezbollah_b_10829902.html
	44	+BEIRUT — How does Israel read the Middle East these days? Few details on
	45	+AND
	46	+in this respect. Israel does not want Iranian troops at its border.
	47	+
	48	+
	49	+====Scenario A: Escalation. Israeli nuclear power escalates tensions====
	50	+
	51	+=====Abuzayyad '10=====
	52	+Ziad Abuzayyad. Volume 16. No 34. 2010. "Palestine-Israel Journal: The Nuclear Option and Peace in the Middle East," No Publication, http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1264
	53	+The Middle East is a small region and, practically speaking, the geographic proximity
	54	+AND
	55	+will be heard more loudly if Iran gets away with its nuclear program.
	56	+
	57	+
	58	+====Arabian proliferation causes great power war—goes nuclear====
	59	+
	60	+=====Taylor '01=====
	61	+Theodore B. Taylor (Chairman, NOVA, Damascus, Maryland. Dr. Taylor, a former nuclear weapons designer, received the US Atomic Energy Commission's 1965 Lawrence Memorial Award and was Deputy Director of the Defense Nuclear Agency. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society). Copyright 2001. "Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons." No Date. https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~~hellman/Breakthrough/book/chapters/taylor.html
	62	+As long as nations possessing nuclear weapons continue to behave as though they feel more
	63	+AND
	64	+or criminals. Continuing to neglect this menace is a recipe for disaster.
	65	+
	66	+
	67	+====Scenario B: Israeli-Iranian conflict. Iranian prolif causes nuclear war====
	68	+
	69	+=====Goldberg '12 =====
	70	+Jeffrey, Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent for the Atlantic, January 23, "How Iran Could Trigger Accidental Armageddon," http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-24/how-iran-may-trigger-accidental-armageddon-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg.html
	71	+The experts who study this depressing issue seem to agree that a Middle East in
	72	+AND
	73	+must be stopped before it reaches fruition with a nuclear weapons delivery capability."
	74	+
	75	+
	76	+====Plan solves—Removal of the Iranian threat is a palliative for Israel, while removal of Israeli nuclear power prevents Iran from reproliferating====
	77	+
	78	+=====Abuzayyad 2=====
	79	+Ziad Abuzayyad. Volume 16. No 34. 2010. "Palestine-Israel Journal: The Nuclear Option and Peace in the Middle East," No Publication, http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1264
	80	+It is likely that Iran will proceed with its program, and the only thing
	81	+AND
	82	+nuclear capability. Achieving a comprehensive peace settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict
	83	+
	84	+
	85	+===Advantage 2: Palestine===
	86	+
	87	+
	88	+====Israeli nuclear power massively pollutes Palestinian water====
	89	+
	90	+=====Butmah et al=====
	91	+Abeer Al Butmah (PENGON, Friends of the Earth Palestine), Bobby Peek (groundWork, Friends of the Earth South Africa), Eurig Scandrett (Friends of the Earth Scotland). "Environmental injustice and violations of the Israeli occupation of Palestine." Friends of the Earth International. September 2013.
	92	+Waste is another political tool used by the Israeli occupiers. The settlement of Ariel
	93	+AND
	94	+and nuclear waste in the occupied territories (Isaac and Hilal, 2011).
	95	+
	96	+
	97	+====Contaminated water kills Palestinian farming====
	98	+
	99	+=====Norton '15=====
	100	+Ben Norton, 6 June 2-15, "Visualizing Palestine: Cost of Israeli Restrictions on Palestinian Farming," http://bennorton.com/visualizing-palestine-cost-of-israeli-restrictions-on-palestinian-farming/
	101	+Non-profit organization Visualizing Palestine created an infographic titled "A Stolen Yield:
	102	+AND
	103	+data and loss estimates are from 2010, indicating they are likely underestimates.
	104	+
	105	+
	106	+====Collapsing the farming industry causes widespread poverty====
	107	+
	108	+=====Perry '14=====
	109	+Megan Perry. "Framing Peace for Palestine." Sustainable Food Trust. July 11, 2014.
	110	+The bereavement felt from this loss emphasises the strong cultural ties and historical meaning the
	111	+AND
	112	+a price on trees. Trees are our past and our future.'
	113	+
	114	+
	115	+===Advantage 3: Meltdown===
	116	+
	117	+
	118	+====Meltdown of the Dimona reactor is inevitable====
	119	+
	120	+=====Levinsonn '16=====
	121	+Chaim Levinson Apr 26, 2016 9, 4-26-2016, "Israel's Dimona nuclear reactor plagued by 1,537 defects, scientists say," Haaretz, http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.716312
	122	+An innovative ultrasound examination has show~~ed~~n signs of 1,537
	123	+AND
	124	+the past and requires safety checks each time as well as various permits.
	125	+
	126	+
	127	+====Meltdown causes extinction====
	128	+
	129	+=====Lendman '11=====
	130	+Stephen, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization,** **
	131	+03/ 13/11, "Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,", The People's Voice http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan
	132	+Reuters said the 1995 Kobe quake caused $100 billion in damage, up to
	133	+AND
	134	+entire region. "It could be, literally, an apocalyptic event.
	135	+
	136	+
	137	+==Framework==
	138	+
	139	+
	140	+===Util===
	141	+
	142	+
	143	+====Non-naturalist theories are epistemically inaccessible—reject abstractions====
	144	+ Papineau '07
	145	+David Papineau, "Naturalism". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007//KOHS-AG
	146	+Moore took this argument to show that moral facts comprise a distinct species of non
	147	+AND
	148	+to see how we can ~~we~~ have any knowledge of them~~?~~.
	149	+
	150	+
	151	+====Naturalism means util—phenomenal introspection means we can export our experience of pleasure to others====
	152	+Sinhababu '13
	153	+Sinhababu, Neil. "The epistemic argument for hedonism." 2013. ~~University of Singapore~~//KOHS-AG
	154	+To see how we can detect moral properties through phenomenal introspection, consider intense pain
	155	+AND
	156	+bright. This fits how we regard the intrinsic properties of phenomenal states.
	157	+
	158	+
	159	+====The standard is maximizing expected well-being. Prefer—====
	160	+
	161	+
	162	+====State action. ====
	163	+
	164	+
	165	+====Util is the only pragmatic option for policymakers—they can only look at macropolitical impacts====
	166	+
	167	+=====Goodin=====
	168	+Robert Goodin, Professor of Government, University of Essex, Australian National Defense University, "THE UTILITARIAN RESPONSE," p. 141-2, 1990.
	169	+My larger argument turns on the proposition that there is Something special about the situation
	170	+AND
	171	+want to use it at all – to choose general rules or conduct.
	172	+
	173	+
	174	+====No act-omission distinction for states—they are responsible for their consequences====
	175	+
	176	+=====Sunstein and Vermeule=====
	177	+Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule, "Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life‐Life Tradeoffs." John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 239 The Law School, The University of Chicago, March 2005//KOHS-AG
	178	+In our view, any effort to distinguish between acts and omissions goes wrong by
	179	+AND
	180	+a set of policy instruments that do not adequately or fully discourage it.
	181	+
	182	+
	183	+====Util calc is k2 moral equality====
	184	+
	185	+=====Cummiskey=====
	186	+Cummiskey, David. "Kantian consequentialism." Ethics (1990): 586-615. Published by Oxford University Press.//KOHS-AG
	187	+We must not obscure the issue by characterizing this type of case as the sacrifice
	188	+AND
	189	+may never force another to bear some cost in order to benefit others.
	190	+
	191	+
	192	+====Happiness is intrinsically valuable, meaning all other theories collapse to util====
	193	+
	194	+
	195	+====Life is a prereq to all action, meaning util comes first====
	196	+
	197	+
	198	+===State Good===
	199	+
	200	+
	201	+====The ROJ: To evaluate the desirability of the aff policy. Prefer—====
	202	+
	203	+
	204	+====Roleplaying prepares students to apply information to the real world—controls the internal link to critical impacts====
	205	+
	206	+=====Blatner '09=====
	207	+Adam "Role Playing In Education" (2009) ~~Adam Blatner, MD, is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, doubly Board Certified in Child/Adult Psychiatry, a Certified Trainer of Psychodrama and a psychology theorist~~
	208	+Role-playing is a methodology derived from sociodrama that may be used to help
	209	+AND
	210	+be prepared for dealing with the challenges of the Twenty-First Century.
	211	+
	212	+
	213	+====State is inevitable—radical alts cede the political to authoritarian elites—guarantees your impacts====
	214	+
	215	+=====Boggs^^~~1~~=====^^
	216	+The decline of the public sphere in late twentieth- century America poses a series
	217	+AND
	218	+of those universal, collective interests that had vanished from civil society.75
	219	+
	220	+
	221	+
	222	+Counter-solvency Advocate(s)
	223	+http://www.adl.org/israel-international/iran/c/the-iranian-nuclear-threat-why-it-matters.html
	224	+https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/16/middle-east-why-should-israel-alone-be-allowed-to-have-nuclear-weapons/

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	1	+Mariah Cook

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	1	+Pembroke Pines JF

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	1	+American Heritage Boca Delray Datti Aff

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	1	+SEPOCT Israel AC

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	1	+Yale