Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today touted a “great diplomatic victory” when the IAEA voted 61-43-33 against an Egyptian resolution which would’ve expressed formal “concern” over Israel’s nuclear arsenal, and urged them to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Netanyahu said Israel had spent weeks drumming up opposition to the resolution, and had “explained” the the countries voting that the real problem in the Middle East was Iran’s civilian nuclear program, saying it would be inappropriate to even mention Israel while the Iran deal was still in place.
Israel’s atomic energy director Ze’ev Snir lashed the IAEA even for voting against the resolution, saying that even allowing a vote on Israel’s nuclear arms “hurt the credibility of the IAEA” and was a waste of its time and resources.
The US, Australia, and Canada were the driving forces on the “no” side of the resolution. The resolution was backed by virtually the entire Middle East, as well as Russia and China. Israel has repeatedly ruling out signing the NPT.
…Snir lashed the IAEA even for voting against the resolution, saying that even allowing a vote on Israel’s nuclear arms “hurt the credibility of the IAEA” and was a waste …
Hmmm. First link:
Ze’ev Snir […] said the move was an attempt to single out Israel, and that if it passed it would “hurt the credibility of the IAEA by politicizing the organization and reducing its valuable resources.”
I think it is true that Israel's real complaint is that they get any scrutiny at all—-and that befuddling it is a major purpose of the decades of accusatory projection towards Iran. But I'm missing how the two bits compared above are strictly equivalent… Could be they corrected as you wrote?
Pathetic – The hypocrisy continues unabated.
little thug rabid dog Israel barks again.
If the Hebrew nation, namely Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all their generations, if they were given a superior ability to achieve wealth to be a blessing to humanity, then the purpose of planet earth would be to prove the good in it.
On the other hand, if such an ability to wage war and plunder was given to inflate pride and to reach the ultimate conclusion of pride, then the purpose of this life would no doubt be to prove the harm in it.
The vote went their way and they're STILL bitching about it? Oy!!
Of course, a terrorist and an iligal state loves disorder and chaos!
Rather strange to see New Zealand which has always been anti nuclear going against that policy and siding with Israel. Perhaps the Prime Minister being Jewish has something to do with it.
That, and the fact that their foreign policy is run out of Washington. NZ has no independence.
I do get the feeling that Israel's days are numbered. There's just too much insanity, ruthlessness, murdering and lies emanating from this pathetic pseudo-nation to go on much longer.
I am amazed to constantly read American politicians complaining about the threat of Iran doing anything with nuclear power while saying nothing about the one country in the Middle East who actually has developed nuclear weapons. These bastard American politicians on the AIPAC payroll continually pretend to honor our American soldiers on Veteran's Day and Memorial Day holidays while at the same time providing more and more financial, military, and diplomatic aid to the shitholes in Israel who knowingly attacked the U.S.S. Liberty (killing 34 and wounding 173 American servicemen) without any meaningful investigation or, response from our politicians. It is time for the American people to demand a full investigation on that attack and full reporting on the campaign donations from all organizations created to further the interests of foreign nations (including Israel). John McCain's efforts to whitewash the Liberty affair should have ruined his pretenses for supporting our troops, but Arizona voters must have limited media exposure and limited reading skills as they haven't yet shown any ability to see the hypocrisy between McCain's words and his lack of actions in support of these attacked servicemen.
Not joining the NNPT, in some nations, would require the planning of a regime change or targeting for a pre-mptive nuclear strike.
I'm gonna pray for benjamin… https://rosariofatima.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/le…