As with previous discussions of the possibility, Israeli officials today reacted negatively to yesterday’s comment by President Obama in support of seeing Israel join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
“There is no room to pressure Israel to join,” insisted Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who added that it was unreasonable to ask Israel to join so long as Iran, a signatory to the NPT remains a “threat.”
But exactly how serious Obama’s comments even were is unclear. The president went out of his way to avoid the issue during the summit, and only mentioned that position when pressed. Moreover the US vigorously opposed an IAEA measure urging Israel to join the NPT late last year.
In fact according to Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, the Obama Administration has never asked them to change their policy of “nuclear ambiguity,” whereby Israel refuses to admit to its massive nuclear arsenal and refuses to join any group which would subject them to any sort of oversight.
Israel made a big mistake when it went "nuclear" In the nuclear age a country must have a considerable land mass to be a "player" . Postage stamp states can be taken out with a few strikes… Now Israel with her constant bellicose hectoring, will force all in her neighborhood to get bombs…just to avoid the Israeli blackmail that we see on virtually every issue..Israel appears bent on prodding those who would otherwise be loath to expend the fortunes that the nuclear forces demand.. And she THINKS she is making herself safer…
Good comment!
I don't think nuclear weapons are going to save Israel. Not in the long run anyways. They didn't save the USSR. They didn't save the Boers in South Africa.
Israel est delenda – to paraphrase a British war cry from the 1890s aimed at Germany.
I believe the world should be more concerned with our rogue terrorist friend's biological, chemical, and gene specific weapon stockpiles. Unless you are a Khazar or have Khazar genes, you should be very worried.
Israel can now simply shut up on the issue of Iran. Iran is signatory to the NPT. Israel is NOT. Seems simple enough. Well except for the inconvenient fact about the US Congress being 'Israeli occupied territory'.
Israel, like a pouting spoiled brat, needs a good spanking and to go set in the corner.
The gloves are off: Israel has shown its “goyim” benefactor just who is boss! Lest Americans think they and the billions in their tax-payer funds matter, they have Nutty-yahoo drive home the point at every turn. And, boy, don’t Americans love to see the public humiliation of their President! If Americans can’t stand behind their President, who will! It’s time for America to decide if Isreal and AIPAC will determine its destiny.
remember thair waiting for all to be revulsed by thair sheer putrid presence so they can say all the nations are against (vommit & puke) then all thair dreams(sic) can come true messianic (total prop)5000 style
Isn't any attack on the ancient and proud nation of Iran just the most unimaginablly stupid irresponsible, and suicidal thing any country in the world, to include the USA, could possibly do? Think about it. If I were Iran I'd have plans for levelling Dimona as we speak, but then maybe they are more intelligent than I am and know they are downwind. Someone needs to speak some sanity to this political maddness before the whole world wallows in the ultimate regret. I hope it's just an act like it's proven to be in the hostage crisis/Iran-Contra past and we just pretend that Iran is our enemy when we are really in cahoots with them. Hell we fought a war to give Iraq to Iran. Your welcome.
IF America DOES attack Iran, it will be a catastrophic mistake.
Israel to America: F*** off and give us our 3 billions dollars in annual shake-down money.
It's more like $30 Billions that goes to these b.st.rds if you take into account military equipments e.g. f16 fighter jets, helicopters gunship, phosphorous bombs and the list go on and on with no end in sight. No money for Americans unemployed but all kind of money for the Zionists leaches..
My comments have to be approved ??? By who??? Hopefully not the Zionists censorship
Joe…..it seems so.
I think I just quit this website…..and will post about its hypocracy elsewhere.
"Existential threat", "Nuclear ambiguity", "Aspirational", etc.
Tres drole.
Wow, above and beyond the law in all things, eh? The Holocaust guilt runs deeper here than in Germany, me thinks. That $3 billion should be contingent upon Israel joining the NPT.
'Nuclear ambiguity'? Isn't it really 'Nuclear hypocrisy'? Obama's 'okay' with that? Tells us a lot about Obama and his 'nuclear non-proliferation' program which everybody is pretending to take seriously.