Israel on Tuesday dismissed a United Nations resolution calling on it to adhere to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open its nuclear program to international inspections.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel rejects the overwhelming global consensus that Israel allow the IAEA to inspect its nuclear facilities and to recommit to the NPT, describing it as a “meaningless mechanical vote.”
The UN General Assembly “has lost all its credibility regarding Israel,” Palmor said, implying that as soon as the international community does something Israel doesn’t like, it loses credibility.
Israel’s advanced nuclear arsenal has long been understood to exist, although it hasn’t been officially admitted by the Israeli government. Many have argued Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons is what drives the accelerated Iranian program and causes other regional instability.
The resolution was approved on Monday by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions and calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty immediately and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
It also offered support for a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just canceled by the US and Israel, in order to protect Israel’s regional nuclear monopoly.
If Israel agreed to dismantling its vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons and to a deal enforcing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East – a deal Iran and Israel’s Arab neighbors have repeatedly proposed – the supposed threats Israel faces in the region would virtually disappear.
Josh:
FYI: It appears that Israel is currently in violation of a United Nations SECURITY COUNCIL resolution dating to 1981 that directed it to place its nuclear facilities under IAEA supervision. This highly relevant violation is rarely mentioned in the press.
See text of resolution 487 here:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/un/un487.htm
Israel has been ignoring UN resolutions it doesn't like since 1948.
This is a peak of hypocrisy.Israel,peak which Israel for sure will pass easily again.The boycott against Iran now,and all what was done against Iraq,and against Syria,Libya etc.with the support of international community and UN was so in Israel taste and she masked her leading role in the campaigns against Iraq then and now against Iran under the slogans like "international community believe…"or ?civilized countries believe……Now when the international community voted against her policy,the vote is ?mechanical",and when "civilized countries voted against her policy then remained Cehia the only one civilized country.
The word 'hypocrisy' is too small to even apply to the arrogance of the Zionist nation. But America tolerates this upstart entity and looks dishonest to the rest of the world.
The US has make a decision now, and right now, as her unconditional support for the criminal state of Israel is destroying her image and affecting her interests. Muslim countries will definitely obtain their full and true sovereignty and sooner than one can think. Either the US changes or she has to kiss goodbye her national interests in the vast and rich Muslim World. It's about time for the US to stop acting STUPID and criminally because we as Muslims we are far from being gullible and stupid.
Have your friend close, but have your enemy closer. For U.S.., You have your enemy so close that you are unable to see your friends no more.
Wouldn't it be a blast if Israel had no nukes! Perhaps it's been fooling the world for decades, pretending it can blow up the world when it can only flatten a few mosques and a pig farm.
Perhaps the world should call its bluff, tell it to put up or shut up. Perhaps its vaunted army is nothing more than a charade as well. Look what happened when it invaded Lebanon last time!
Perhaps the members of the IDF go to acting school and learn how to look tough and frighten old Muslim ladies.
There are many voices in Israel that have been pointing out for some time now that the occupation has been destroying the Israeli army. An army that has the day-to-day job of intimidating civilians at checkpoints is a very different army than the crack fighting force that Israel once claimed to have. Recent experience in Lebanon and Gaza both point this out. The Israeli army is nowhere near as good today as it used to be. Many in Israel know this. The one place where the myth of the elite Israeli army still exists is in the USA and among people who only listen to 'propaganda' instead of 'news'.
This article is self-contradictory – in the 2nd paragraph, the author claims there's a consensus that Israel should "recommit" to the NPT. In the 5th paragraph the author admits Israel is not a signatory to the NPT. One cannot "recommit" to something one has never commited to in the 1st place.
You know how that works… you commit to something, then you hem and haw for a decade, then you uncommit, after a decade you promise to recommit again if you can gain assurances that lost credibility will be restored. You then commit tenatively only to decommit a bit later because of tangentially related developments etc. etc.
Congratulations! You actually read the entire article in order to find a typographical omission you could hang your semantic argument on. Hasbara is becoming more and more difficult to spread these days as Hasbaraniks become more and more desperate and creative. That must really suck.
Israel has a voice at the IAEA because it is led by a US puppet, Amano, while Iran which has signed upto the NPT willingly is villified for a non-existent weapons programme. Israel should be denied all access to IAEA.
People often say that Israel is the 51st state. But every state has only 2 senators. Israel has a 100. That is why it is able to get anything it wants and force the US to comply to its demands, including launching wars. Through the US veto Israel effectively rules over the UN. It fears and hates the UN because the General Assembly which is the impotent but democratic body of the UN would take corrective actions against its' trangressions if the Security Council would allow it.
Mechanical: adjective … Word used by low life hypocrites; intended to demean the normal response to low life hypocrites.
"ISreal" rejecting a UN call? Doesn't the UN already know that Res. 181 is the only UN action the Kosher terrorists recognize and abide by?
ISRAEL,PLEASE DO NOT LISTEN TO UNITED NATION OR UNITED STATED.DO WHAT YOU MUST DO.GOD BLESS ISRAEL…CHRISTIAN FRIEND,,,
If Israel wants to complain about Iran, they need to take a good look in the mirror first.
Definition of a rogue state. A state that ignores the international community and does what it thinks it must do, no matter what.
Definition of a dangerous rogue state. A Rogue state with one of the most powerful militaries in the world and possessing nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
Boycott Israel.
Israel has lost all credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world.
This frightens me. It makes me think they might be planning an attack.
how can one state call a global consensus meaningless? And people say the US are arrogant…