Qatar has renewed its calls for Israel’s nuclear facilities to be brought under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and for Israel to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear state, which would require Israel to abolish its nuclear stockpile.
Israel has a covert nuclear weapons program that it does not officially acknowledge and is estimated to have somewhere between 90 and 300 warheads.
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said that Doha’s ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Jassim Yacoub al-Hammadi, made a statement concerning Israel’s nuclear program during a meeting of the IAEA’s Board of Governors.
“Hammadi underscored the need for the international community and its institutions to uphold their commitments under resolutions of the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the IAEA, and the 1995 Review Conference of the NPT, which called on Israel to subject all its nuclear facilities to IAEA safeguards,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The statement added that Hammadi “pointed out that all Middle Eastern countries, except Israel, are parties to the NPT and have effective safeguard agreements with the Agency.”
The IAEA’s Board of Governors often censures Iran through Western-drafted resolutions for its nuclear program even though it is subject to IAEA inspections, and, despite the hype over uranium enrichment levels, there’s no evidence Tehran is seeking a bomb.
On the other hand, Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, which is not subject to any inspections, rarely gets any attention. This is largely due to the fact that the US also does not acknowledge its existence and doesn’t put any pressure on Israel to sign the NPT.
The US cannot recognize the existence of Israel’s nuclear weapons since foreign assistance laws prohibit military aid to nuclear-armed countries that are not subject to IAEA inspections.
Good idea.
My count is of some 16 (operative, modern) nuclear warheads at most: they could build c. 2 warheads per year in a relatively narrow window spanning the 90s and early 00s only. They did have a nuclear program previously but it was very primitive, "dirty bombs" or similar. They never carried out any major nuclear test (mini-tests only).
They tested nuclear weapons with South Africa… They together made the "Apartheid" bomb.
Not really. Look it up: SA never really tested anything before the Apartheid was over. There’s that rumor about Israel did a test in the Indian Ocean (Vela inccident) but doesn’t look plausible at all (too early, too likely that it was something else, even just a natural event or intoxication by someone to promote the belief that Israel was nuclearized.
In fact, even when I believe Vanunu’s testimony, all the rest seem designed to make people believe that Israel has more nukes than it actually has. It has a few or none at all but definitely many less than usually claimed.
Israel has a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons, yet, Israel refuses to sign the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), despite international pressure to do so.
In November 2023, Israeli junior Heritage Minister Amihay Eliyahu publicly called for dropping a nuclear bomb over Gaza.
Israel is a nuclear 'Rogue State' and an existential threat to international law and world peace.
New World Order
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Even if Israel actually used a nuke, the USA would still not admit that Israel has them as it would require the end of US aid; this in turn would stop the Israel-to-US-politician grift train
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Daniel Ellsberg has referred to him as "the preeminent hero of the nuclear era"
Qatar is very right.
On the other hand, Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program, which is not subject to any inspections, rarely gets any attention.
Similar to the attention Qatar's calls will get.
Instead of talking about Israeli nukes ,Qatar should talk about something else – how to increase the resistance power to Israel.It should have asked Basher to work closely with Hamas Nasrallah Houthis and Iran and take the fight to Israel. Instead it contributed to its disintegration. Qatar UAE Saudi should know that if Israel could destabilzie Jordan and Egypt despite them signing treaties ,Israel can destroy them also for money territory opportunities and for sex and drugs , and US will support the destrucion .
Meanwhile " The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is blocking U.S. arms sales to a key Middle Eastern partner over its purported role in Sudan’s ongoing civil war, according to three congressional aides informed of the plan.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) has quietly blocked arms sales to the United Arab Emirates since late last year, and plans to make that hold public as he introduces a bill to take action against those fueling the war in Sudan. T"
Where was thsi guy when Biden was sending 27 billions to Israel?