Israel again refuses to join nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 20:37 EST
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It is against Israel’s interests to join a global anti-nuclear arms treaty and the UN atomic watchdog is overstepping its mandate in demanding it to do so, its nuclear chief said on Tuesday.

Arab states have tabled a resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency annual conference in Vienna for Israel to fore swear nuclear weapons and sign up to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

“Israel is not the only member state … that has exercised its sovereign right not to accede to the NPT due to its national security considerations,” Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission chief Shaul Chorev said.

“Yet Israel is the only state that has been singled out, and is called upon to take a decision which is against its best national interests,” he told the conference.

“Indeed, the advancement of states’ accessions to international treaties does not fall within the mandate of the (IAEA),” he said.

The Jewish state is the only Middle East power believed to possess nuclear weapons.

Chorev said the resolution tabled by the Arab states was part of a “political campaign to defame the state of Israel”.

It was “incompatible with basic principles and norms of international law and does not fall within the mandate of the agency as defined in its statute,” he said.

“Moreover, this resolution … ignores the adverse reality in the Middle East region,” Chorev said.

He said that Middle East states such as Iran, Syria, Libya and Iraq under Saddam Hussein — all signatories to the NPT — had “grossly violated their treaty obligations”.

“These four cases make it absolutely clear that the NPT is unable to adequately address the security challenges in the Middle East region where the treaty has been most abused,” Chorev said.

“The serious threat to the NPT and the non-proliferation regime is posed from within by those states that pursue nuclear weapons under the cover of their NPT membership.”

The Arab states’ resolution, which has been tabled every year for the past few years, is expected to be debated on Thursday.

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  • Anonymous

    Let the crazed comments begin…..

  • Crispus Attucks

    Well then… all US aid to Israel should be stopped immediately.

  • Crispus Attucks

    Well then… all US aid to Israel should be stopped immediately.

  • Anonymous

    Israel is above everybody else.

    Just like the US is.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Yep, because holding Israel accountable like any other nations, is utterly irresponsible..
    ..
    And yes, I am aware of what you are about to say…”but the holocaust……”

  • Anonymous

    I have ceased to believe that US supports Israel blindly. I have come to the conclusion that Israel rules United States with an iron hand, instead!

  • Anonymous

    Israel hardly rules the US…both nations soverign states. If Israel wanted us to attack Iran, why haven’t we?

  • Anonymous

    talk about cliches! the holocaust has nothing to do with this issue.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/L5PHKRPFHK3LLTRDNVH2ZBIWOA Cal

    If the NPT is such a bad piece of paper, why do the Israelis spend so much time castigating the Iranians who are signatories and adherents to the treaty? If the Israelis hadn’t bought and sold several ‘western’ governments’ complicity in all of this, there would be less of a mideast crisis plaguing this world.

  • Anonymous

    So “WE” you meant your are posting here in behalf of the ZIONIST State.

    So. Are You a member of the INFAMOUS IDF’s Army of bloggers?:

    http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-recruits-army-of-bloggers-to-combat-anti-zionist-web-sites-1.268393

    PR Works?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/L5PHKRPFHK3LLTRDNVH2ZBIWOA Cal

    Good point.

  • Anonymous

    Israel has more nuclear weapons than the United Kingdom and it should stop pretending and be up front about just how many it has. The present game of footsie is a disservice to the Jewish people and to the world community.

  • Anonymous

    Of course now you deny that you would have said that.

  • Anonymous

    The mass of the ass, plus the angle of the dangle, equals the cream of the scream.

    Crazy enough?

  • PrissyPatriot

    We’ve all been victims. Everyone has a sob story, got a couple of days to listen to mine? Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust, there were many more.

    It’s only fair they declare their nukes.

  • Anonymous

    To hell with Israel and its endless lies, aggression, obfuscation, lawlessness and assertions of exceptionalism. Oh, almost forgot: arrogance, spitefulness, obnoxiousness, and constant whining. Time to cut the Shitty Little Country off the gravy train and put the screws on it.

  • Anonymous

    To hell with Israel and its endless lies, aggression, obfuscation, lawlessness and assertions of exceptionalism. Oh, almost forgot: arrogance, spitefulness, obnoxiousness, and constant whining. Time to cut the Shitty Little Country off the gravy train and put the screws on it.

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  • Chip

    Israel should keep upgrading its nuclear weapons until its neighbors agree to its right to exist.

  • Chip

    Israel has been held accountable for itself over and over when it was attacked again and again. They have earned the right to exist except in the minds of the losers.

  • Anonymous

    Israel has no right to exist simply because of its demand to be recognized as a Jewish state. No religion has the state of its own. Globe is too small for that. The only way that Israel and Jews in Middle East may exist is as a multi cultural single state for all people who want to live there. Otherwise Israel will be a battleground forever, until it is completely destroyed. Nuclear bombs will not save Israel, unless it drops the nuke upon itself.

  • Anonymous

    To postroad:
    Yes, Israel does rule United States of America with an iron hand. Any opposition to the Zuinist rule of United States is swiftly punished by a black operation such as 911, or the execution of the opposition figure (Paul Wellstone). Recently Israeli Minister Barak visited Washington, not for a day, nor two days, but for five days of demands and brainwashing. Check out the bames of the Obama’s staff in the White House and let me know how many of them are not Zionists!

  • http://www.leosigh.blogspot.com Leo Sigh

    With the Jewish Lobby in the US, there isn’t a senator or any other politician who dare go against what Israel wants. They’re all bought and paid for by Israel and the Jewish lobby. So, yes, Israel doesn’t have to join the NPT. America isn’t going to force it.

    And anyone who cares about American independence should NEVER buy an Israeli product, and never support a company that sends substantial amounts of money to Israel – it will ultimately lead to America’s downfall.

  • Anonymous

    yeah…poor little Israel…an oversized bottle rocket lands in a parking lot and they respond by taking out a whole village..

  • http://www.leosigh.blogspot.com Leo Sigh

    Jews are going to be playing that card for the next 1,000 years.

    Like a Lebanese friend of mine who was a victim of Israeli atrocities said, “They go on about “The Holocaust”, then turn around and perpetrate the same atrocities they suffered under the Nazis, against other people”.

  • Anonymous

    Israel seems to exist just fine. Problem seems to be Israel not giving the Palestinians the right to exist. Fuck the Zionists.

  • Prattvictory

    Israel is the biggest threat to peace in the world.

    All religions are a form of tribalism. Jewish Zionism is the most violent form of tribalism. They will bring about nuclear holocaust and cloak it in their victimhood.

  • Anonymous

    Crock O’ Shit. They get to defy it and Iran gets punished for participating. Let’s stop the $3,000,000,000 a year giveaway.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    You know I am not antisemitic,I believe that every racial discrimination or expression of bigotry is ignorance in its purest form,but I am not going to spend the rest of my adult life being told by some “self selected people” (chosen ones…) that I have to carry on the burden of their suffering,because some German maniacs treated them badly half a century ago. I was not born, I have nothing to do with what they experienced, this is not my fucking problem,the rest of us cannot be held responsible for some people did 60 years ago….

  • Anonymous

    There was a time, 30-40 years ago, when we could stand with Israel. But that time has passed, and the new stance of that state against their neighbors, as well as the threat posed to the rest of the world by their posturing, is dangerous to every person looking forward to a peaceful resolution. They are becoming what they once stood against, and don’t seem to realize we are seeing this.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Israel has the right to exist in Germany, France or Eastern Europe. They are the ones who butchered Jews like there were no tomorrow. Ask the fucking Europeans to give a piece of their real estate.

    and Chip, you know me better, don’t waste your time with your revisionism history, please. You cannot stand me, but you don’t have to play like an imbecile.

    You and I can have a rational debate but you prefer to play the antisemitic card with me,because you fully understand that I will lay down the bare facts and historical data, while you can only rely on fabrications,propaganda & emotional blackmail

    Grew up,somehow,.someday you will have to face reality and accept it,as painful as it can be……

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Very elegantly stated…..Nothing more to add.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    What are you talking about, Israel already exist and has never asked anyone permission. Now they need the approval from their neighbors to start to behave like any other nation?.

  • Anonymous

    Well, lessee, 550 thousand Jews in Israel, 680 million Muslims in the world, most of whom would like to see Israel gone…it’s easy. Besides, Iran is now a nuclear power, and you won’t see them signing anything meaningful either.

  • Anonymous

    That’s complete and utter garbage. P.S. There were 17 million Jews in the world in 1939. Seventy years later, and there still aren’t that many.

    The more rancid spirits among you can always find an excuse, but the result is always the same – BIF, Blame Israel First. Ain’t you clever.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the Chosen People is in the Bible, it wasn’t dreamed up recently. If you’ve got a problem with that, go pick a fight with Leviticus. If you can time travel.

    And no, we don’t know you’re not anti-Semitic. You’ve kept up a constant drumbeat against Jewish existence, to the point of obsession – and you say you’re not anti-Semitic? Yeah, sure.

    No one’s holding you responsible for the Holocaust. Just a lot of mean-spirited, badly-argued nastiness in these columns. That you definitely are responsible for, and there’s nothing in there to be proud of.

  • Anonymous

    hey!…lookie here!…a Zionist apologist with a strawman argument!…

  • Anonymous

    I’ve got it! If you’re not a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, saliva-drooling Jew-hater, you must be a government stooge!

    Aa-OO-gah! Uh-uh, no sale. There’s lots of people unconnected to Israel who aren’t suckers for bogus conspiracy theories. We call them…civilized.

    For the record, the U.S. is not run by Israel. It’s run by Saudi Arabia and the oil companies that have intimate relations with it. They’d like you to think that it’s Israel behind that curtain, but it’s not. It’s not Jerusalem, it’s Jiddah.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    I have news for The Chosen people. every goyim doesn’t go to sleep at night and walk up in the morning, with the idea of eating Jews for breakfast…..

    Jews as a community are pornographically paranoid .It ls about time to get over the Nazis episode and start behaving like normal individuals.Hitler is dead and he is not coming back.

    The rest of us are not going to eat your Holocaust story, for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the rest of our lives. we have our own problems and the universe doesn’t rotate around the Jewish issue.

  • Anonymous

    Professor Martin Van Creveld,
    Israeli military historian and theorist,
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    “We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.”
    - September 2003 interview in Elsevier (Dutch weekly)

    This quote remains UNRETRACTED by any official Israeli source.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Wow, go ahead and start the name calling again, Do you honestly believe that you are hurting my feeling by calling me antisemitic? , I couldn’t care less, I have nothing to justify to you or anybody else. I am not one of your people and you are not a member of my family, we are not supposed to give a shit about each other……Just appreciate the fact that I am not one these pathological antisemitic nut balls, yet…..Because the way in which you are pissing off people with your arrogant behavior and emotional blackmail, is not the best way to win heart. You want compassion and respect from me ?, you have to be willing to give back a bit of what you will get, there is nothing like a free lunch.

    Shalom

    .

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Lol, never get into a street fight with your dick in your hand…..

  • Anonymous

    Once again Israel shows its true colors dot expect the MSM to cover this the victim card is getting worn out already

  • Anonymous

    Hooray! Do you know what just happened? RawStory just posted an article from AFP about Israel with comments! So it CAN be done! I applaud them! Today is a day for celebration! And now, we will drink GROG together! GROG! GROG! GROG! (Rum, water w/sugar or juice, spice such as cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, paprika)

  • Anonymous

    i’m sure everything will be just fine as long as everyone keeps it in their pants…

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Bla bla bla, Jew hating on the right, antisemitic on the left……This bullshit is starting to lose its momentum. I cannot stand people like you, not because of your Jewishness, but because of your egomania & persecution solipsism. show some fucking dignity and stop whining about the sufferings you personally never experienced. Unless you are above 80 year old, you are not a victim of antisemitic persecution…..You should see a shrink and take Prozac, Auschwitz was closed more than 60 years ago, Get over it and start living like the rest of humanity…..
    Most people wouldn’t give a fly fuck about the Jews if you could leave the rest of us alone, & stop blaming us for everything. You people are pathological nutcases, for you even a toothache becomes the symptom of new antisemitism…

  • mick

    Sanction Israel until it allows inspectors to check out its Nuclear Facilities .Make it honor EVERY UN Resolution against it since 1948 ! Stop pussy footing around and man up America .You have shielded Israel for way to long .Inspected now .

    Secret Document Affirms US-Israel Nuclear Partnership

    Israel’s Army Radio reported on Wednesday July 7, 2010 that the United States has sent Israel a secret document committing to nuclear cooperation between the two countries.

    According to Army Radio, the U.S. has reportedly pledged to sell Israel materials used to produce electricity, as well as nuclear technology and other supplies, despite the fact that Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

    Other countries have refused to cooperate with Israel on nuclear matters because it has not signed the NPT, and there has been increasing international pressure for Israel to be more transparent about its nuclear arsenal.

    Army Radio’s diplomatic correspondent said the reported offer could put Israel on a par with India, another NPT holdout which is openly nuclear-armed but in 2008 secured a U.S.-led deal granting it civilian nuclear imports.

    Obama emphasized that the U.S. will continue to work closely with Israel to ensure that arms control initiatives and policies do not detract from Israel’s security, and “support our common efforts to strengthen international peace and stability.”

    Israel neither confirms nor denies having nuclear weapons under an “ambiguity” strategy billed as warding off foes while avoiding public provocations that can spark regional arms races.

    The official reticence, and its toleration in Washington, has long aggrieved many Arabs and Iranians – especially given U.S.-led pressure on Tehran to rein in its nuclear program.
    Title: Report: Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership

    Source: Haaretz Service, 7/7/10

  • mick

    GORDON DUFF: IS AMERICA BEING ASKED TO NEGOTIATE WITH A TERRORIST STATE?

    Israel is demanding the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard. Pollard, sentenced to life in prison for spying against the United States is a hero in Israel. Jonathan Pollard, an American of Jewish ancestry and Zionist extremist publicly stated that he tried to destroy America to help maintain the “racial purity of Israel.” Pollard may have been spying for Israel but all the information he stole, a truckload of America’s most vital secrets, all went to the Soviet Union.

    Why did Israel send this information to Russia, the names of all American intelligence assets behind the Iron Curtain, the exact locations of all NATO nuclear weapons facilities, missile silos and detail on how to defeat America’s defenses from nuclear attack?

    http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/09/gordon-duff-is-america-being-asked-to-negotiate-with-a-terrorist-state/

  • SuccumbingToSanity

    Fairness, rationality, and respect need not apply to dirty scum of the earth goyim like us…

  • Anonymous

    Jews, Muslims ,Arabs, Palestinians are not the problem..the Zionist ideology is the problem…i despise Zionists, because they are the root of the problem… Zionists are the ones who want to see all Arabs and Muslims dead and gone … Hamas and Fatah are the children of Zionism just like Al-Qaeda is the child of Evangelical Christians..you JIDF people always try to insinuate that all Jews are Zionists,but people are finally starting to see through you bullshit..you guys need to hire some new script writers…

  • Anonymous

    you’re incredibly ignorant to the number of jewish neo- conservatives with strong ties to israel who were in, or behind the scenes, to the previous white house. you must think aipac is weak in washington. go back under your bridge troll.

  • Anonymous

    open your eyes you moron. criticism of israel is not jew-hating.

  • Anonymous

    And they wonder why the rest of the world hates them!

  • Anonymous

    In all sincerity, I’ll second that!

    Thanks, RS.

  • Anonymous

    A little 5th grade girl named Rachel once had a dream:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7QdtBN776Y

  • Anonymous

    Is your Lebanese friend concerned about Hezbollah running his old country or is at peace with that and with Syria? ps: when the bible refers to the Jews as chosen, it means that they are to spread the word of a monotheistic god. Additionally, all religious texts assure believers that they are in the true path and chosen if they follow the religion and text. Christian and Muslim texts also assert this.

  • Anonymous

    Do you know who Sibel Edmonds is? Ex-FBI. Fired because she had definitive evidence of an ISraeli-Turkish-American corruption scheme that included the black market sale of American nuclear technology around the world. A.Q. Kahn got most of his technical documentation for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons from the US, through Israel. American politicians and political appointees have been compromised through Israeli spy activities. Others have willingly chosen to put Israeli interests above American interests. Pollard is small time when you consider the former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (now a lobbyist for Turkey), the former #3 in the State Department (Yes, Marc Grossman), Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perl, there are many many more in this state sanctioned Isrraelli-Turkish effort to compromise America. So, Israel is no friend of the United States, in fact, Isrrael is the 2nd gravest threat to American security in the world today (after energy concerns). So, please…take your tired old rhetorical accusations of antisemitism and shove them up your ass. We want our goddamned country back and you and yours can just, fuck off.

  • Anonymous

    the CHOSEN PEOPLE are special, they steal nuclear secrets from us, keep getting money from us, decide what countries we should invade, and decide who else does or doesnt get to have nukes, of course they are allowed to stockpile hundreds of nukes made by technology stolen from the country they continually stick their fangs into and drain dry (usa). god must really love these parasitic,money grubbing,aparthied bastards!

  • Anonymous

    All this fighting over who has the better imaginary friend.

    Holy Rollers Suck.

  • yomamma

    how DARE you expect the jews to act rationally. its not their fault that they are not capable of being rational and reasonable.

    you see, about 80 years ago, some people were tired of their stranglehold on the economy and killed a bunch of them. and ever since then, they are all batshit crazy. its not their fault. just let them be.

  • Anonymous

    But your NOT ant-Semitic right?

    Typical.

  • Anonymous

    Says the stupid American who benefits from our cozy arrangement with Israel.

  • Anonymous

    The Jim Jones Nation theory.. Isreal

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JOWSGCAPD7RGYCTTAMMJM2GNX4 Slothrop

    oh look, someone’s playing the exceptionalism-via-persecution-complex card with a nice healthy dose of racism, topped with some cut-and-paste “glittering generalities” from the Hasbara Handbook. Fail.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JOWSGCAPD7RGYCTTAMMJM2GNX4 Slothrop

    oh look, someone’s playing the exceptionalism-via-persecution-complex card with a nice healthy dose of racism, topped with some cut-and-paste “glittering generalities” from the Hasbara Handbook. Fail.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JOWSGCAPD7RGYCTTAMMJM2GNX4 Slothrop

    more to the point, the “right to exist” argument is a complete fraud from the get-go. nations have no “right” to exist, since there’s no FSM in the sky granting that right to them. Nations EARN their survival and existence.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JOWSGCAPD7RGYCTTAMMJM2GNX4 Slothrop

    ok. fine. but then stop bitching about Iran, who, after all, is simply seeking PARITY in a regional nuclear arms race that israel started.

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  • Anonymous

    Too damn right. Nobody has a deed to any country!

  • Anonymous

    The insane behavior of Israeli leadership suggests panic has replaced confidence now that the Neo-Con/Zionist wars have proved so disastrous, costly and “unwinable”. Their BS is no longer convincing, their dishonest and constant Iran fear mongering laughable, their saber rattling has no teeth without US approval and involvement and global public opinion is rapidly shifting against their genocide against Palestinians and the theft of Palestinian lands.

    Perhaps the most obvious example of the panic is the recent “offer” to stop settlement development for the release of the big fat treasonous RAT Jonathan Pollard currently serving a life sentence for selling top secret military data to Israel. Apparently he is considered a HERO and was granted Israeli citizenship in 1995 after his conviction and sentencing. He is the poster child for the folly of the “special” American Israeli relationship and the mind boggling power of AIPAC. It has done us and the world much harm and must end.

    For more :

    http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/09/21/the-pollard-principle/

  • Anonymous

    “The serious threat to the NPT and the non-proliferation regime is posed from within by those states that pursue nuclear weapons under the cover of their NPT membership.”

    This statement is absurd. How would allowing IAEA inspectors into your country make it easier to develop a nuclear weapons program in secret? Staying out of the NPT is what made it possible for Israel to build their nuclear weapons program in secret. This is a classic case of projection.

    It would seem to me this refusal to join the NPT has two possible and nonexclusive rationals.

    1. Discredit the NPT and IAEA as irrelevant and inept to bolster their claims against Iran.

    2. Continue to hide the origins of their nuclear weapons program which would embarrass its primary benefactor, the U.S.

    Talk of anti-Semitism and/or a “political campaign to defame the state of Israel” are straw man arguments. This is about why Israel claims it has the sole right in the region to possess nuclear weapons without any accountability on how it uses or spreads this technology.

  • Anonymous

    And you are a Zionist right?

  • Anonymous

    But of course the Zionist Nation considers herself above and beyond normal international protocols. With every justified criticism against Israel they chant antisemitism. To you Israel you can shout wolves so many times but with about 100 or more of your nuclear missiles bristling against your unarmed neighbors nobody believes you.
    So if you have the right to own nuclear war heads so does Iran and every single neighbor surrounding you and it will happen, count on it!

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget the insurance companies.

  • TheDevilCanDance

    Excellent catch phrase :)

  • TheDevilCanDance

    In these days and ages, we are all antisemitic ( I am making the job easier for you, isn’t it? )

  • http://www.leosigh.blogspot.com Leo Sigh

    That’s what I don’t get about Israel. They say they’re protecting themselves but every single one of their actions isn’t protection, instead it’s instigation as if they’re taunting every other country around them. Unfortunately for Israel, eventually they’ll taunt the wrong country, who will take them up on their offer and will likely win (ie: ONE country against about 30 others!)

    And I think Iran should have nuclear weapons. At this point, Israel is a bigger threat to Iran’s existence than vice-versa.

  • Anonymous

    Zionist Israel is not only an existential threat to Middle East but to the World at large. If they insist on having their nuclear warheads then so shall their neighbors be entitled to the same nuclear rights.

  • Anonymous

    Ya gotta love Israel/Jews, they are about to bomb the crap out of Iran because the aspire to have Nuclear power when they are the State in the area that has Nuclear weapons and will not agree to NPT. Why are these people special and above International law??

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  • Anonymous

    Who attacked who in 1967. Who attacked a United States ship attempting to kill everyone aboard? Who lied and said they were attacked until they found out they were observed attacking first and changed their story to we made a “PRE-EMPTIVE DEFENSEIVE STRIKE”? Who attacked without provacation in international waters? Who has never lived up to one single arms agreement they signed with the United States? Who has violated more U.N. mandates than anyone else? Who is operating the largest open-air prison in the history of the world?