Amid strong and very public US politicking the IAEA narrowly rejected a non-binding resolution urging Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel is the only state in the Middle East and one of only three states on the planet which is not a signatory.
The US had argued it was “unfair” to single Israel out, even though the effort was part of a goal for a Nuclear Free Middle East and Israel is the only holdout, and also the only nuclear armed nation in the region. Israel has ruled out ever signing the NPT at any rate.
But US Envoy to the IAEA Glyn Davies praised the failure of the vote, saying “the winner here is the peace process. The winner here is the opportunity to move forward with a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.”
The later claim seems incredible as Israel’s arms will remain an obstacle to a Nuclear Free Middle East going forward and President Obama has publicly announced that it is his position that Israel has every right to nuclear weapons. Israel insists it may attend the Nuclear Free Middle East summit in 2012, but as it is under NPT auspicies it seems they will be little more than an observer and likely spoiler.
Do I hear the sound of a few horses being traded?
Interesting paper on the Israeli gadget program… http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/farr… Evidently it's pretty well advanced, nice machines n' all that…
Up is down, black is white, and arms-possession is arms -free. I forgot to mention war is peace when it comes to Israel. They must laugh their heads off when they see Obama and his spin doctors try to rationalize their position. Pathetic!
….and why do they hate us?
Why single Israel out if there are only 2 other states not to sign? Have the resolution cover all 3. This sounds like the typical phony resolution that the US Congress does, set up to have an excuse to vote against it. Name all 3 and call on them all to sign the NPT.
Israel will never give up their nukes. Even if they agreed to destroy them they will hide most of them.
The NPT is worth reading – it's online, (google it for the text), and it's interesting for what it does not say. The careful reader will see that it does not prohibit anything except actually assembling explosive machines. Not to be sanguine about this, but putting an emergency gadget together under emergency conditions is quite possible, beginning from an NPT-compliant status. In other words the NPT does not seem to prohibit the capacity [to make a-bombs], simply assembly for stockpile. Meantime do a google search for "The Third Temple's Holy of Holies; Israel's nuclear weapons", Warner D. Farr, LTC, U.S. Army … What's going on here is less than it seems – these infernal machines are trivial engineering, fully out of the bag, and attempts to put 'em back are mere smoke and mirrors. Integrated hair trigger "systems" with rockets and "warheads" and so on are, in counterpoise, terrifically dangerous…ask Fidel, we all came "that close" to global destruction, and we've stayed there. These are not "weapons" – they're suicide pills.
Bottom line, I suppose, was that Pakistan was not mentioned in the resolution, since it, too, is in the Middle East, sort of. I think that's fair. Include Pakistan in the resolution, then! And since Pakistan would not want to be singled out, put in India, too. That leaves North Korea, but they're used to being excluded, since they mostly do it by their own leadership's choice.
Can a crook claim in court that it's unfair to accuse him of a crime as he's the only one being accused..?
Israel admitted that they can turn all of europe into glass beads.. Very dangerous times–all of NATO has become Israel's states. WWII is about to happen–Wake-up–this time USA is not going to be protected by two oceans. Only cure–Trem limits for all politicians-8 years max. another help would be–let Iran deal with Israel.
Israel is an aging dinosaur. Dimona is leaking radiation. In the 06 war in Lebanon Israel used DU munitions on the ground. Those very same DU munitions are now in Israel's groundwater for 4.5 billion years. If the Israeli's had their way they would 'nuke' Iran and create an even larger nuclear presence in their environment. Russia meanwhile is completely cognizant of nuclear radiation emanating from the stolen land. The first nuke that pops in the sand box and Russia is all set to turn Tel Aviv in to a glass parking lot.
If I understand the USA position that it is unfair to single out Israel, the only nuclear armed empire in the middle east, in an attempt to pressure Israel to join the rest of the nations in controlling nuclear weapons. Now I understand why they hate us for our freedom. Freedom to lie and start wars in the name of peace. It is amazing that Israel with 200 to 300 nuclear bombs is crying for the world to attack Iran because israel does not like Iran blocking Israel aggression in Lebanon. Even CNN has stated that Israel has the bomb and CNN is more pro zionist than the Israel government. What is the problem in having Israel join with the other 100 or so nations who have joined? Is their a problem that a reasonable person cannot see or is it another case of they are our special friend so they get to make the rules.
Israel does not trust its neighbors.
"Why," you ask?
Because Israel does not trust itself…it has no honor and no integrity. They are one of a kind.
Yet again, the US stands with its pants down! The sheer hypocrisy of its position in the Middle East and the moral bankruptcy of this administration is all too evident. It isn’t so much the Israeli position that is at issue here: it is America that has now been positioned to defend the indefensible. One has to wonder just what distorted peace the US contemplates for Palestine that it has to be held hostage to every Israeli whim!
Why is it OK for Israel to refuse to ever sign the NPT, but it is not OK for the DPRK to walk out on the treaty (especial when the terms under which they signed it were NEVER honored). If the answer is that it is never acceptable to walk out on a treaty, then where does America get-off pulling out of the ABT?
US' rationalizations for its support of Israel makes it the laughing stock of the world (outside of America that is.) Heck, even the Israelis get a chuckle.