Despite repeated US demands for the Arab nations to drop any mention of Israel’s nuclear arsenal at next week’s IAEA conference, the “Arab Group” still intends to submit a draft resolution calling for the Israeli government to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
But supporters of the resolution say that the goal for a conference on creating a nuclear-free Middle East in 2012 would be all but impossible if Israel, the region’s only nuclear weapons power and the region’s only non-signatory to the NPT, is exempted from any oversight.
Administration officials have warned that the resolution could harm the peace talks related to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Those talks are widely expected to fall apart on Sept. 26 when Israel renews settlement expansions, but it will still be going on during the IAEA meeting.
The US has also claimed that the effort is a ploy on behalf of Iran and Syria to divert attention from investigations into them, and has stepped up calls for further IAEA investigation into a Syrian site that the Israeli military bombed in 2007. Syria allowed an IAEA team to the site after Israel claimed it was a secret nuclear research plant, but the team’s ability to investigate was seriously hindered by the fact that Israel had already destroyed all the evidence by bombing the region.
"The US has also claimed that the effort is a ploy on behalf of Iran and Syria to divert attention from investigations into them,,,"
Yes… yes… Focus your attentions on the "non-bombs" and not on those who already have them and those actors dropping plenty of conventional ordinance on the heads of men women and children who have done nothing to deserve it. That would be hurting the cause for "peace".
It seems that the only "peace" USA understands is a peace based on terror, submission, bribes and monstrous babbling outside the real problems.
Why does this not surprise me? The US is Israel's prison b***h and we do every bit of bowing and scraping we can to Tel Aviv- and we've been bent over for them for decades to continue the charade about Israel's nuclear arsenal. Any time anyone raises the issue, Israel issues its orders and the US dances to whatever tune they call, including cutting our own throats in the Middle Eastern political world. Israel probably should OK other ME nations to have nukes- then the next time they launch a terrorist attack on one of our ships (one that looks like the USS Liberty, maybe) or buildings (maybe a twin tower) they can use one of their old nukes and claim the Palestinians or Lebanese did it. And the sad part about that, other than the further loss of Us lives at Israel's hands? The US government will parrot the Tel Aviv story line and the US public will eat it up like they always do.
But…but… It might harm the peace process!!! Lmao… So… Maybe we have finally figured out why Obama and Bibi restarted the peace talks. So when the US is asked to do somwthing about Israel he can just say “not now, It might harm the peace talks” now it all makes sense. I couldn’t figure out why they were bothering with this charade.
Code Red !!! Code Red !!! Arab nations brandishing dangerous logic in aisle 3 !!!
Looks like the Mossad is going to be very busy.
Yep, only the chosen shall have clandestine (or not-so-clandestine) nuclear arsenals. Zionism has once again shown itself to be the racist dogma it is – and its American poodle merely responds to its bidding. And Americans wonder why the world despises them so! So, this is even-handedness, American style…. Now we know what kind of "peace" is possible in the ME.
So this is why the US is building up the Saudi Military, if you don't sign this we will blast your ass. But wait, the US is building up the Israel military to