The Israeli government has officially said that it “deplores” the vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) member states to call on Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and submit their nuclear facilities to the same oversight as the rest of the world does.
The vote narrowly passed, 49-45, and was generally opposed by Western nations while being supported by UN Security Council permanent members Russia and China, as well as most of the nations in the Middle East.
The United States ambassador Glyn Davies publicly rejected the resolution, calling it “redundant” and claiming that calling on Israel to join the NPT as every other nation in the Middle East has unfairly singled them out.
Canada went one step further, trying to block the vote entirely and condemning it as “unbalanced.” Votes on similar resolutions had been successfully blocked in 2007 and 2008, but this year’s attempt at blocking it failed.
The issue of Israel as a nuclear power and a non-signatory of the NPT has been controversial, and when a US State Department official said in May that the US wanted everyone to join the NPT Israel reacted with shock and outrage.
Of course not. Would anyone have expected them to? They are above all nations, the "children of God" and can do as they please, while the rest of the world shivers in fear of being called anti-semetic.
Canada, O Canada, where art thou Canada..??? Not really sensible politics while wreaking havoc on an other Muslim Nation…..it makes you look like what you are…….the larbor pool for the vast neocon putsch….in Afghanistan and in the World Body….too…… How does the rogue Israeli nuclear bomb program profit non bomb Canada..?? Who benefits from unending nuclear weapons production in Israel..?? It sure isn't the Canadian people…. Who IS it…..?????? And in the end, it's not realiy good for the Israeli people either.. Small states with small populations are better off avoiding nuclear and all brinksmanship…. One would think after the Georgia fiasco that the West would b loath to bait the bear..Putin has said …. Don't attack Iran….We will see an attack on Iran as an attack on Russia
They don't have enough land or people be serious nuclear players……and by having nuclear weapons, they are more vulnerable to a nuclear attack……..Only a fool attacks a man armed with a gun with a knife….. Ther longer it takes to bring peace and equity to this land, the more dangerous it is for THEM….. Where is your shame…..Canada..???
Canadian here – bloody embarrassing I tell you. But what can you do? The government here will remain a minority which pleases the citizenry, but ministers like Neo-con Jason Kenney remain entrenched in key cabinet positions.
I mean really, check out the Wiki write-up on him. This has got to be my favourite paragraph:
"In August 2006, Kenney compared Hezbollah with the Nazi Party of 1930s Germany. He also rebuked Prime Minister of Lebanon Fuad Saniora for having criticized Canada's support for Israel in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. Saniora had argued that most nations of the world, apart from Canada, regarded Israel's military actions in Lebanon as disproportionate and illegal. Kenney's response was, "Canada took a responsible position and I would hope that the Lebanese prime minister would express gratitude" for supporting attempts to help the Lebanese government regain control over those parts of its territory controlled by Hezbollah."
Gratitude I tell you! I couldn't make this shit up!
It's when people start excoriating you for not dropping to your knees and prostrating yourself in gratitude for having your country attacked that you start to realize what sort of people you're really up against.
Israel: We're unique! We're special! We're exceptional! We're beautiful! We're God's favorite! We can do whatever we want. We have minions in every nation on earth. We own the US. Canada is our door mat. We rule!
We will have as many nuclear weapons as we want! Of course, we support non-proliferation for everyone else.
"And to anyone who dares to ask us to join the non-proliferation regime we will scream, 'You are an anti-semitic Nazi who wants us to be annihilated in a new holocaust!'"
What a pack of pathological losers!
That's right! If you even "think" about nuclear power we'll pulverize you! And we have the dupes and traitors around the world to back us up.
I guess we should all wait around with intense enthusiasm to be proliferated as a simultaneous global indoctrination and conversion.
Its exciting the member states have called on Israel to conform their behavior to worldly decency, because that demand will most certain demonstrate their decency as I am certain they will join, aren't you?
This facade reminds me of the famous SNL skit where the land-shark knocks on the door and the resident asks, "Who's there?", to which the SNL character dressed in the shark suit replies, "It's not the land-shark".
Come to think of it, Israel is both nuclear armed — and a 'land-shark'.