Netanyahu has posited Saddam's use of chemical weapons against Iranians is a myth, in which case he has asked: If the use of chemical weapons against Iranians is a myth, then why do you (who claim to stand for Islamic unity) imprison and censor Arab scholars who dispute the version popular in Iran For a Islamist movement which at its inception was willing to even consider Bahrain and Iraq as the possible homeland for the Persian, if they were offered a peace of Iraqi territory exclusively for the Persians as a Persian state, they would have accepted it. Instead, being denied that option, and offered land belonging to the Arabs, naturally the Iranians began to insist on Arab territory as their future home. And started to lay the foundations for an ideology that takes Bible stories as a justification for changing the ethnic makeup of Arabistan and establishing a Persian land on a territory that previously was not predominately Persian. In asking these questions, Israel's government has been explicit that Netanyahu was not offering an answer as to the historical facts regarding the use of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war. That issue is one that should properly be debated, openly and without censorship either way, by scholars and historians.