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Nuclear Hypocrisy: UN Atomic Agency Curtails Probe of Israel’s Nuclear Capability
Nukes okay if held by Israel
- World’s worst nuclear offender gets another pass -
By Jonathan Tirone
September 06, 2010 (Bloomberg) -Sept, 03, 2010– United Nations investigators, ordered to write a report about Israel’s atomic capabilities, said they couldn’t compile enough information to assess the extent of the country’s nuclear program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency released documents today showing a split between member countries who want more light shed on Israel’s nuclear work and others that say the Vienna-based organization doesn’t have the right to pry. The IAEA’s 151 members voted in September 2009 to have the agency review Israel’s program as part of an effort to create a nuclear-weapons-free Middle East.
Israel declined to cooperate with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s inquiry on “political and legal” grounds, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said in a July 26 letter among the 81 pages of documents, calling the probe “unjustified.” Amano asked Israel to consider signing the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty when he visited the country last month.
Countries including Canada, the U.K. and U.S. opposed the probe, saying that the inquiry risked turning the IAEA into a political battleground, according to the documents. Others, including China, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey, supported the investigation. Divisions over Israel will be discussed at the IAEA’s annual General Conference which convenes Sept. 20 in the Austrian capital, according to a provisional agenda of the meeting.
Israel has refused to open its nuclear facility in Dimona to UN inspectors. It says the site is a research facility. IAEA inspectors make routine checks, aimed at preventing the removal of atomic bomb-making material, from Israel’s Soreq Nuclear Research Center.
While Israel has never acknowledged having atomic weapons, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington- based policy study group, estimates that the Jewish state possesses enough material for between 100 and 170 weapons.
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so, what is isreal hiding?
“Amano asked Israel to consider signing the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty”
Israel considered and declined as this “organization” comprises of
poor third world muslim african and non alligned who are after israel
for political puposes
in this regards israel being a very close ally of india is taking
the same policy
when and if india changes its mind israel might consider but as its
space program is so advanced one could assume there would be no
such weapons in israel itself
one can assume that israel possesses much more advanced technologies
then those used 65 years ago and using the word atom is quiet
oldfashioned
“Israel declined to cooperate with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano’s inquiry on “political and
legal” grounds.”
“Israel has refused to open its nuclear facility in Dimona to UN inspectors.”
There is a glaring double standard here and if people don’t see it, then they are lying to themselves. If Iran just stalls inspections a week, then the U.S. is ready to level the country and go on a mass killing spree. I think apartheid Israel should be called the “teflon country”, because nothing sticks.
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Oh people of Israel, you who are morally blind, who kill and destroy and make life miserable for your neighbors. You are unable to feel empathy or mercy for the weak, oppressed and downtrodden. It is alien to your hearts.
Unfortunately, the world underestimated your spiritual darkness and the cold heartedness of your apologists make a mockery of truth and justice .
Each terrible act you commit, the brightness of your spirit dims until it become like a dead thing. When that light goes out, you will be no better than the wild beasts of the jungle.
As for being the “chosen people”, do you seriously think God would keep you after the things you have done to his other earthly children ?
God knows what is in the hearts of men, otherwise, as the philosopher Pythagoras said, “ Life would be a feast to the wicked and death a godsend, were it not for the immortality of the soul “.
Look within yourselves, it is never to late to soften your hearts and break away from the collective evil you are caught up in.
Remember, you will reap what you sow. God will not be mocked.
Yes, there is an obvious double standard. Why? Because economic wealth, political power, and social/cultural/educational status will generally trump military considerations, as well as negate any just or ethical principles as applied to international relations.
While Israel’s policy of strategic ambiguity has been useful in serving its interests in the past, Vanunu and others have made such less useful. Israel has likely between 200-400 nuclear weapons, with many of them targeting some very surprising cities.
The global security and peace goal should be having a nuclear free Persian Gulf, Middle East, and North Africa.