Already expressing its “regrets” for the call for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East as soon as they had signed it, more reports are emerging indicating that the Obama Administration’s official “support” for the idea is incredibly narrow and comes with strings attached.
According to one unnamed Israeli official, President Obama made secret pledges to Israel before agreeing to the deal, promising to preserve and even strength Israel’s “strategic” arsenal.
Israel has condemned the call for a nuclear free Mideast as “hypocritical” and noted that it does not feel bound by the NPT conference declaration. Israel is the only non-signatory to the NPT in the Middle East and also the only nuclear weapons state in the region.
Arab nations had expressed hope that the Obama Administration’s support for the proposal was a sign that Israel’s days of having a large, undeclared arsenal free of international oversight were coming to an end. It seems, however, that the signing will be milked for all it can provide President Obama politically, then discarded in favor of the same old policy.
If Israel were your home and you have been attacked throughout your history, unrelentingly, from all sides, by all your neighbors, being threatened in every generation to be pushed into the sea, would not the ultimate weapon be necessary to assure your survival? Or would you prefer remaining at odds with six surrounding countries determined to exterminate you?
Isreal with backing of the USA is in absolutely no danger from itds neighbours.
However they have used their strenght to carry out dreadful attrocities against their neighbours especially the Palestinians which far outweighs anything that the Nazi's ever did against the Jewish people during WW2.
One day (God willing) they will reap what they have sown.
One day we will all reap what we have sown. But for now we must live in the hear and now.
Fenton- you and your official israeli talking point are full of s**t. Israel has done all the attacking. The lying thugs are already saying that the peace activists on the aid convoy attacked the IDF!!!
Get out of here please.
Thank you.
Israel has been the one doing the attacking and is determined to destroy so many other nations.
Why don't the Israelis just nuke themselves and be done with the unending oppression of their "poisecution"?
True, the Palestinians should have nuclear bombs.
well said.
Tel-aviv needs a nuclear bomb…dropped on it.
Well that certainly is the anti-WAR way of dealing with things. Good to see even "pacifists" can be brutal in their methods, hopes and dreams.
I understand this remark is meant jokingly, but it is tasteless. I don't like this sort of threat uttered by anyone against anyone, no exceptions, no excuses.
Hey…Dude, What goez around…Cums around…. So for NOW, Israel.. with the help of the U.S is able to kill 1000 Arabs for every Israeli who perishes while engaged in STEALING the LAND of the Palestinians. and with their nuclear weapons, they want to be able to kill millions of Arabs for every Israeli killed… Hey, don't worry, thoze F*kin Arabs are so stupid that you will B able to exterminate them all….. and have ALL the LAND for your Greater Israel….. Jus hope nuthin goez wrong….like in Germany, Spain…Egypt… Don't worry, no one will catch on..!! Its TOTALLY safe…!! Go fo it…
Reply to R Fenton. Israel is rotting from the inside! It will just be a matter of time before Israel implodes by its own hand.
Iran is right.
There is no place on this planet for a regime so currupt and brutal as Isreal.
These people are the scum of the Earth – NOT GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
If GOD did choose them – HE made an awful mistake
Hope HE can correct this abomination soon.
Obama made public pledges to American voters during his election campaign that he broke on day one of his first term, so how much do pledges to an extreme right -wing nut like Netanyahu weigh?
But that is another matter, American voters are negligible, whereas Israel's desires are always number 1 on the short list of what to do first..
How much longer can this go on?
Quite a while, don't hold you breath in other word, you will turn blue and pass out before you get what you wish for.
If you can’t kill the lion, don’t provoke it.
Who wants to kill the lion, dearie? A nice little Deleuzian enculage surely.
The lion might even enjoy it. It's really a bore being King of the Beasts when it comes right down to it.
Maasai have a lot more fun.
And the walls of Jericho came down – and the army of Joshua stormed the city – and they killed EVERY living thing; every man, every woman, every child, every livestock – and they took over the land – and they went on to do the same to the next city and the next city – and they are still doing it, aren't they?
Obama is controiied by Israel so he will say what they tell him to.
Suppose Obama agreed to anything in regard to the Israelis working the Kurds?
the Israeli's are deeply involved in Kurdistan. Don't you think that makes their former ally the Turks angry? Can't the Israelis keep any friends happy?
Israel does not want or need friends – it has the bomb – what it wants is land, land, land. and water.