Israel and the non proliferation treaty
So a non binding resolution passed in the UN urging Israel to open itself to IAEA inspections and to signing the NPT. The funny thing is I did not hear about his from any US media source, and is not on any of the news sites such as drudge, huffpo and tpm, nor any mention on cable news. This would seem to be a fairly important development and yet the only way I found out about this is from talking to my father in law who watches chinese television and brought it up to me. How can it be that this story has gotten no play at all on US news feed? It raises an interesting question in that how can we repeatedly go after Iran for it's nuclear program and site the npt and IAEA guidlines as justification when at the same time the US blocks any investigation into Israel's atomic capability, which is one of only three nations to not sign onto the npt, The hardest thing to take is the arguement that if Iran developed a nuclear weapon it would start a nuke arms race in the middle east, well isn't Israel's nuclear weapons capacity the instigator in that already? I would just like to see a little more discussion of this in the media, why is Israel such a special situation that even questioning the existance of it's nuclear program brings about shouts of anti-semitism.
There’s an exclusive game in town that’s been around now for about 40 years – it’s known as the ‘NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY’ position.
The object is, or was, to secretly amass as many nuclear warheads as possible without anyone knowing, whilst vociferously objecting at every available opportunity to anyone else having a nuclear weapon. In other words, refusing to accept non-proliferation – but insisting upon it for every other state.
It’s a very special game in that it has only one player – but it has family members in the Halls of Power in America and Europe and so is able to continue to play this extraordinarily simple but dangerous stratagem, ad infinitum.
That is until this week, when a Nuclear Conference, which apparently was ignorant of the rules – or someone forgot to tell it – decided to make public the fact that a Middle Eastern state had an estimated 300-500 nuclear warheads in an underground site in the Negev desert, which had never been declared to or inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Enough nuclear power to sink the whole of the Middle East and most of Europe.
The result being that the ‘NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY’ game must be now effectively considered dead, finished, caput! Because a state that is hiding an undeclared nuclear arsenal of that size is too dangerous to be allowed to get away with it.
The world will have to act now to dismantle this nuclear arsenal that has illegitimately made Israel possibly the 3rd most powerful nuclear state in the world, after Russia and America.
And the burning question is: why did the United States, throughout every presidency since John Kennedy, collude in this game of ‘NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY’ that had so disadvantaged the whole of Europe and the world? Why did the US veto every resolution pertaining to this issue?
Why should a political and trading block of over 500 million people be beholden to a tiny Mediterranean state with a demographic just over 1% of that of the EU?
Why should a political lobby that effectively decides US foreign policy also dictate to Europe?
Since last week, these questions demand urgent answers.
September 21, 2009 4:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think I understand what Kennedy felt when he said of the Russians:
"We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'" --John F. Kennedy
Medvedev states: "Russia had the right to sell defensive weapons to Iran" (see link)
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58J0NQ20090920?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Russia states that "Poland was making itself a target by agreeing to host the anti-missile system". (see link)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/europe/16poland.html
September 21, 2009 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink