US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Glyn Davies again warned Arab nations against trying to push forward a non-binding resolution urging Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), insisting it might harm the Mideast peace talks.
“We need to send a positive impulse to that broader peace process, not a negative one,” Davies insisted. US officials had previously reacted with outrage when they learned that Israel’s arsenal was a topic for discussion at the IAEA meeting, insisting it was “untimely and uncalled for.”
But the issue of Israel’s status as the only nuclear weapons power in the Middle East and the region’s only non-signatory to the NPT isn’t going away, and must continue to be an issue as the Nuclear Free Mideast push continues.
Israel has ruled out joining the NPT, claiming such calls are unfair, and President Obama has indicated that he is backing that position and that he believes Israel has an inherent right to the possession of nuclear weapons. President Obama also criticized his own vote in favor of the Nuclear Free Mideast resolution at the most recent NPT meeting, insisting it was a “mistake.”
Obama is so incompetent, he doesn't know what he believes, or what to say he believes. The hypocricy of the US/Israel position on Israel's nukes is so laughable no comment is needed.
Surely Mr. Davies, you must be joking…
If only he were . . .
Members of the American diplomatic corps, defending the United States Israel policy, have become like that strange, older polyester-clad uncle who tries to get stores to accept personal checks written on the back of his old power bills. When they do it you wish they were anyone else's relative.
This has little to do with the incompetence of just Obama. This has everything to do with AIPAC and the media completely controlling this out of control by the American people government.
Naturally we have this eternal double standard. One standard for Israel and another standard for everybody else.
I'm getting OUT of this Disneyland for dummies. When WW 3 breaks out and the US is ground zero because we invaded half the world so Israel could sell weapons I will be laughing as mushroom clouds form all across America as well as Israel.
If the United States or Israel were to be nuked it would be no laughing matter/ Nuclear weapons do not discriminate between the innocent and guilty/ Millions of people could die/
Is the government of the United States a criminal government? Yes, it is/ Is the government of Israel a criminal government? Yes it is/ All governments are criminal governments to a greater or lesser extent/ A distinction has to be made between the government and the people who are ruled by that government/ Nuclear weapons fail to make that distinction and punish both the innocent and guilty/ Shame on you for making that comment/
Unfortunately, millions of people support their criminal, REPRESENTATIVE, governments. These people are in no way innocent. They are just as guilty and complicit, so let's stop blaming our two most criminal governments in the world. Those afraid of dying have the options for removing their representatives.
Just one problem with that concept. If voting actually worked they would make it illegal. Presidential elections are a fixed race. Both candidates are carefully vetted by AIPAC and the media (same thing). I'm NOT afraid of dying. I'm not going to die because the American people have been so dumbed down by the televitz that they haven't got a clue regarding our failed foreign policy. Yes I know that nukes don't discriminate but that is my honest assessment regarding America's future if a new foreign policy that isn't completely centered around Israel starting one war after another to steal more land and express their Islamophobic racist rage isn't implemented.
Would an old-fashioned "shock and awe" campaign be okay then? Or does that only go for countries on the "wrong" side of the US-Israeli Axis?
You're right.
People (many) are nevertheless fed up with all this "alternate" reality we're supposed to accept without question even if we're allowed to yap at it.
There should be an end but there's no end in sight (or reasons for hope).
Of course, believing US could disappear in a punitive nuclear holocaust caused by the angry world is silly at best and counterproductive. The change must come from inside US.
Look at it objectively. What do you think is going to happen the first time that Israel pops a nuke OR nukes in the sandbox ? Take a good look at a map. ALL this fallout will be all over Russia. Do you honestly think they are going to sit idly by while their country is radiated from Israel's actions ? Do you honestly believe that the Israeli's are wrapped tight enough to even have nuclear weapons in the first place ? They definitely don't appear to be acting in any form of a rational manner and haven't for 62 years now. I applaud the fact that these people are pressing for Israel also to be pressured to sign the NNPT and allow the inspectors in. So where are the crippling economic sanctions on Israel ? I stand by my assessment. I will be somewhere in S America when it all breaks loose.
Please spare me the bleeding heart bullshit. Americans kill hundreds of thousands of civilians and they call it collateral damage. Not a peep from the innocents in America.
Either stop shoving the words civilized and democracy about the US down our throats or take your collateral damage like men.
Innocents should not suffer in wars, but as the saying goes, the silent on oppression are dumb devils.
It has become impossible to view the United States and Israel – both their governments and their demented populations – with anything but vile contempt.
You are a fool/ Can you not see that this is not about support for the policies of the USG or the Israeli government/ This is about the indiscrimant slaughter of millions of innocent people/ It is wrong to indiscrimantly slaughter Muslims, Arabs, Persians, Africans, Americans, and Israelis/ They are all humans and killing humans who are guilty of nothing is wrong/ You are guilty of the same crime as the neocons, the likudniks, and the Islamophobes/ As George Orwell put you are classifying millions and millions of people like insects/ You are marking them for extermination and hatred for who they are and not for what they did/ In spirit and in thought you are no better than the people you claim to despise/
The US governmernt is just a cheap whore for AIPAC. The US has absolutely no credibility in world affairs anywhere. When if it ever starts to clean up its own mess at home things might improve for the average suffering American.
Why don't they just simply raise the Israeli flag over the White House and halls of Congress and be done with it?
So this is what it feels like to be in a nation comfortable to be Israel's monkey. Tel Aviv blows a whistle, and we dance our little hearts out to please the Israelis and are happy to do it while they spy on us and steal our technology and are complicit in assisting with- or carrying out- terrorist attacks on US citizens and armed forces. The evidence will be a mushroom cloud over US forces- or over the US itself- and the bomb will have "Made in Israel" painted on the side. So much for non-proliferation.
"President Obama has indicated that he is backing that position and that he believes Israel has an inherent right to the possession of nuclear weapons." It is not Obama or America´s call as to who has a right to have nuclear weapons – isn´t it logical that if it is any country´s right, that said country should be under the eyes of the NPT? What double talk from Davies – he is an embarrassment to us all.
Why is it ünfair"for Isreal to sign the NPT but for other nations who sign the NPT and are then singled out for sanctions even though they follow the rules?
What broader peace process are we talking about?
The peace that means ONLY the US and its friends are allowed to have Nuclear Weapons and be able to use them and everybody else must subjugate themselves to these elite powers.
Is the U.S. Government not subjugating U.S. citizens to the dictates of Israel? The U.S. proposed the NPT — asked all nations to sign — and now has destroyed the meaning of the treaty by agreeing to Israel's refusal to sign and demonstrating "outrage" to those nations who have signed and request that Israel obide by the same treaty that we have requested those nations to sign and obide by the laws. Iran has every right to enrich uranium under the NPT treaty. Moreover, Iran cannot be blamed for developing a nuclear bomb under the circumstances the U.S. is demanding.
This administration demonstrates that Israel's demands are a higher priority than the safety of its own citizens.
US administration are advocating continuation of the NAZI legacy in the face if israel. Mabye that entity would not have to posess nuclear weapons if it genuinly likes peace , withdraws from the occupied land and gives back the natural water resources . Nuclear weapons are needed for great Israel : from Africa to Indonesia mabye further.
AIPAC peace is Jewish dictatorship over all countries using the Israeli and US nuclear arsenals. The US should disarm. Everyone should disarm their nukes. The US and Israel go blue in the face screaming about other nations having nuclear bombs but want to keep them, ourselves, because it gives us tremendous power over unarmed non-nuclear nations.
What harm could it cause other than if "dicsovered" that Israel has nuclear weapons it would not be allowed to get foreign aid. The USA is presently in the process of giving many $98,000,000 jet fighters to Israel. Why do they need nuclear weapons other than to cause mayhem. The unholy relationship of AIPAC and Congress is going to cause the end of the USA. There need not be a war to cause the end because the debt is enough to cause the end of the USA civilization. For the sake of both Israel and the USA it is time to do something about the AIPAC lobby.
WHY! The whole mid-east crisis can be greatly reduced in intensity by Clinton telling the Israelis either settle with the Palestinians or NO MORE AMERICAN AID. There would be peace in 24 hours.
If Clinton said that, it would be retracted and spun out of existance within 24 minutes, which is about as much time as she would have to clear her desk before she gets frog-marched to the door.
We need a guy in there like a Teddy Roosevelt who is gonna knock some heads around and stand up to this Isreally-first Lobby
NetanYAHOO and ObamaNATION are ruling the planet right now.
We know they are arrogant MORONS. The people they govern are
more moronic. So what's the end game? Total annialation. That's
it.
I have come to the conclusion that it is best for the talks to fail. Then the Palestinians should start clamoring for inclusion into Israel. Already over 30% of Palestinians are favorable to that idea. That would mean Israel would be a Jewish/Muslim/Christian state . Nothing wrong with that. Compensate financially the refugees for their loss of property.
He's afraid it would 'harm the peace process'? There is no 'peace process'. There is only a process of the destruction of the people of Palestine. Where is this leading to? Obama claims that we are heading towards nuclear disarmament. What will happen when every country in the world is disarmed and that leaves Israel with the only nuclear weapons? I'd hate to live in that world. I've seen what they do in Jenin, Lebanon and Gaza.
OK, let me get this right: it is OK for Israel to maintain (and expand) its clandestine nuclear arsenal, refuse to sign on NPT, defy UN security council resolution and enjoy unequivocal US support.
The one hope Arab and Muslim states had expected from Obama’s Cairo declaration last year was even-handedness from his administration in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Evidently they hadn’t reckoned on the vice grip AIPAC maintains on the US. The Israeli tail has been dragging the American dog too long for a US administration to dare defy AIPAC dictates now. Will Americans ever be able to break free and reclaim their sovereignty? Not as long as its politicians compete with each other in their unabashed kowtowing of AIPAC/Zionists – and American interest are sacrificed on the altar of the illegitimate Zionist settlement in Palestine. If Israel can defy the world and maintain a clandestine nuclear arsenal – so should every one of its adversaries: hello, that is even-handedness.
I increasingly understand why we in the US are so despised in the Arab world and throughout the globe.
More Americans must ask what they would do if some other country acted with as much hypocrisy toward us as we do toward ALMOST all other nations.
The alarming double standard will only FORCE covert proliferation. Countries in Israel's neighborhood are being irresponsible to safety of their populations to NOT have deterrence to Israeli rogue WMDs…
As for the NPT, it is corrupt like it's parent UN. [Five nations only have total control by veto] If the "Arab Nations" were to give an ultimatum that, either Israel is forced to be inspected and join the NPT, or they the Arab States will withdraw from the NPT "En Masse".. The game of "nuclear opaqueness" would end with a whimper…. But it will most not likely occur, why… Because they would lose all American aid.. No aid for non NPT signatories, and again here is the double standard except Israel. Fun isn't it…. Again here is a situation where America's No.1 Welfare Queen receives special, [read double standard] access to American Taxpayer largess [$$$$$] despite the LAW that forbids it.. More special treatment compliments AIPAC bribing and extortion of the American legislators with American Taxpayers money… What a great country, the American Taxpayers finance their own extortion…thanks to AIPAC and her hired friends.
Why Iran Needs A Nuclear Bomb
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/82/066/Why_Iran_Ne…
Because everything about Israel is UNIQUE. Israel is above international law, above everything. Soon, nations should take really hard look into this matter, if this "entity" of the MIDDLE EAST can earn place among nations on planet Earth???? 60 years of Israels regime show it cannot …. peter czech
Is there a shred of US interest in this situation? The hypocrisy is singing as far as North Korea and Iran were concerned. Israel is forcing US fully grown educated adult politician to act like stupid idiots in front of everyone. when this guy go home his wife will look at him like he is a marionette devoid of any human senses or intelligence.
This reminds me of Tombstone, AZ during Wyatt Earp's day. EVERYBODY checks their guns with the local sheriff except the Clanton Gang.
One guess who the Clanton Gang is on this thread.
It is now clear and getting clearer all the time: the US and Israel are the biggest threat to the world. It is like Nazi Germany won the war and it is occupying the US and Palestine.
JFK was assassinated because he refused to capitulate to Ben Gurion's hysterical demands for nukes, but JFK consistently said the only way to have peace was for a balance of nuclear power, not a one sided one in the ME.
He said often of the Israelis: "The sons of bitches keep lying to me" He also wanted to rid the US of its Zionist Federal Reserve Bank which would only cause havoc and not be compatible with a true democracy. Shortly after that JFK was murdered, and his brother and son later as well.
The Arab states should do with the US what all of South America is doing about the IMF: "We don't need it's charity" they all clamor now because they know the Milton Freedman Chicago style policies all implemented decades of brutal dictatorsahips.
The Arab states should continue to insist on Israel belonging to the NPT, otherwise they can envision decades more of permanent wars from Israel with the US backing it up.They don't need the irrelevant US bully any more than the former S.American dictatorships do, which are all flourishing without US interpherence and mischief.
Obama is nothing but a chip political prostitute when it comes supporting the Israel,and its crime against the humanity.take the nobel prize and shove it obama!
Name even one president that hasn't been a complete slut for Israel since Kennedy ?
"US: Arab States Must Drop Call for Israel to Join NPT"
My country, right or wrong, but nowadays about 95% of the time just plain wrong.
US: Arab States Must Drop Call For Israel To Join NPT
Why?
Its all about AIPAC.
Hey…Egypt –Israel's 'partner' under dictator Mubarak is going Nuclear…as declared last week….locating a major nuclear plant near Alexandria and Med coast….and eight other locations including the Sinai in near future. Jordan also was encouraged (under W) and may also have plans to go nuclear…but Iran who the US and western Europe ENCOURAGED for decades to go to nuclear power (to spare its oil and gas for the West)…is being threatened with annihilation by Israel for daring to go online…but IRAN IS NPT compliant and a signatory…while Israel is NOT and will not even discuss it….Talk about TAIL WAGGING THE DOG…..zionist mafia rules our OCCUPIED US CONGRES!
honestly….. you couldn't make this nonsense up….
too many are getting sidetracked, it is about the election coming up, neuter obama till you can get rid of the gutless goof making it clear there will be no vote for supporters of the remora in the east
The problem with this concept is that it's like doing a dance. Vote one Israeli lap dog out and welcome Israel's new lap dog in. I did see something positive this past week though. Bolton is contemplating running. A foaming at the mouth zio racist to the core. Would it be possible to wake Americans up by putting Bolton in office ? At this late date worse is better. PLUS, Bolton would invade Iran as well as Syria and anybody else Israel frowns at. That would push America in to a depression that would make the great depression look like the good old days. With America completely bankrupt and destroyed financially as far as the eye can see now there's no more money to send to Israel. How could even this brothel of a government justify funding Israel while the entire nation is homeless ? Where would they get the tax money from ? So any aid sent would be worth less than fake monopoly money. So maybe there is hope.