Israel
Invites The World To Revolt! Still The Only Possessor Of
Nuclear Weapons In The Middle East
06 June 2010
By Kourosh Ziabari
Over the past 60 years, the racist regime of Israel
has been continually scoffing the international
community under the cover of "deliberate ambiguity" to
develop one of the most perilous nuclear arsenals in
the world. According to the Federation of American
Scientists, Israel possesses more than 200 nuclear
warheads which are simply adequate to evaporate the
whole world in a matter of moments.
Israel which is the only possessor of nuclear weapons
in the Middle East and one of the three
non-signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty has blatantly rejected the appeal of the 189
signatories of the NPT, including its key ally the
United States, to sign up to the treaty and put its
nuclear facilities under the comprehensive safeguards
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The 2010 NPT review conference which wrapped up on May
28 in New York and was attended by the representatives
from the NPT member states called on the five United
Nations Security Council permanent members to move
towards eliminating their nuclear arsenals and
affirmed the necessity of Israel's joining the treaty
and abiding by its international obligations with
regards to nuclear non-proliferation.
Zionist officials, however, rejected the appeal and
resorted to the excuse that Israel is not signatory to
the NPT, so they're not legally obliged to reveal the
information related to their nuclear arsenal, nor are
they responsible for reducing their atomic weapons,
let alone eliminating them whatsoever.
Israel which has been recurrently given impunity from
international laws by the United States and enjoyed
imperviousness to any kind of legal and judicial
responsibility before the international community with
regards to its criminal acts of mass murder, ethnic
cleansing and collective punishment is now reminding
the public opinions of the chauvinistic and
mischievous apartheid regime of South Africa which was
ruled by the National Party government between 1948
and 1994.
Israeli regime which has killed more than 6,300
Palestinians since the September 2000 and demolished
more than 24,000 Palestinian homes since 1967 as a
part of its expansionistic policy of extending its
borders from the Nile to the Euphrates has been
subject to 65 UN resolutions since its establishment
which include resolutions that legally obligate Israel
to annihilate its nuclear arsenal. The UNSC resolution
487 which was adopted on June 19, 1981 explicitly
called "upon Israel urgently to place its nuclear
facilities under IAEA safeguards".
On September 23, 1987, 12 IAEA members including Iran
submitted a draft resolution to the IAEA General
Conference titled "Israeli Nuclear Capabilities and
Threat" which demanded that Israel place all its
nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards in compliance
with the Security Council Resolution 487 of 1981. It
also requested the IAEA director general to consider
the implementation of provisions in the UN General
Assembly resolutions 41/12 and 41/93 in which Israel
was officially asked to legalize its illegal nuclear
activities.
In an October 29, 1986 resolution, the UN General
Assembly had called upon Israel to urgently place all
of its nuclear facilities under the IAEA supervision
and commit itself to avoid attacking the nuclear
facilities of other countries. This resolution was
adopted in support of the UNSC 487 resolution after a
squadron of Israeli F-16A jetfighter aircraft bombed
and destructed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor on June
7, 1981.
Since then, Israel has been recurrently under the
pressure of independent nations who couldn't tolerate
the double standards of the U.S. and Israel with
regards to nuclear non-proliferation. Israel has been
asked and demanded a number of times, by various
international organizations and IAEA member states, to
move towards nuclear disarmament; however, the
irrational leaders of the Israeli regime adamantly
stuck to their excuse that Israel is not an IAEA
signatory and hence would not be necessarily
responsible to heed the calls.
Israel's explicit violation of UNSC resolution 487 and
its inattentiveness to the final resolution of the NPT
2010 review conference however, has been supported by
the United States which has discriminatorily
disregarded the demand of the NPT signatories who want
a nuclear-free Middle East.
In a statement released last Friday, the U.S. National
Security Advisor Gen. James L. Jones unambiguously
supported Israel's possession of nuclear weapons: "The
United States will not permit a conference or actions
that could jeopardize Israel's national security. We
will not accept any approach that singles out Israel
or sets unrealistic expectations."
The message transmitted by General Jones was clear and
unequivocal. Israel's national security is hinged on
its ownership of nuclear weapons. Should Israel
annihilate its nuclear arsenal, its frail security
will be threatened seriously. Expecting that Israel
abides by its international obligations is
unrealistic, because Israel has never been a realistic
regime. Its very foundation was based on imaginary
pedestals and its flimsy existence continues to be
imaginary. Singling out Israel is not accepted,
because a nuclear-free Middle East means the overthrow
of Israel's apartheid regime.
The Government of Israel published a statement on
Saturday night that transparently exhibited Israel's
impunity from any kind of international law: "As a
non-signatory state of the NPT, Israel is not
obligated by the decisions of this Conference, which
has no authority over Israel. Given the distorted
nature of this resolution, Israel will not be able to
take part in its implementation."
This statement was clearly an invitation to global
revolt by the regime of Israel. If a country is not a
signatory to the NPT, then it would be exempted from
nuclear obligations, so it can possess nuclear
weapons; therefore, "O! You countries who want to hold
nuclear weapons; pull out of the NPT and exempt
yourself from its compulsions. You can freely possess
nuclear weapons, should you be a non-signatory to NPT.
That makes you free. Become liberated!"
However, the interesting section of the story is that
not only will Israel move towards nuclear disarmament,
but it has plans to expand its nuclear capability. A
2002 book published by the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace titled "Deadly Arsenals" revealed
that Israel is attempting to arm its diesel submarines
with nuclear cruise missiles: "Published reports going
back to 1998 describe Israel's acquisition of diesel
submarines and testing of cruise missiles. Israel "is
believed to have deployed" 100 Jericho short-range and
medium range missiles that are nuclear capable."
In a September 24, 2009 blog post, the renowned
British writer and human rights activists alludes to
his country's negligence with regards to Israel's
growing nuclear arsenal. He explains that one of his
friends working in MI6 has told him that the Israeli
nuclear capacity is greater than that of Britain by
2009. Murray then goes on to criticize the British
ex-Premier Gordon Brown who never told a single word
about Israel's nuclear weapons, but ironically stated
that his country would move towards nuclear
disarmament: "I am very pleased that Brown has put the
UK's nuclear weapons into disarmament talks and has
endorsed the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. But
with Israel not a party to any of the treaties, and
with Brown and Obama refusing to admit even that the
World's fourth largest nuclear arsenal exists, I can
only presume they believe that nobody should possess
nuclear weapons - except Israel."
- Kourosh Ziabari is an Iranian
freelance journalist and media correspondent. He has
interviewed political commentator and linguist Noam
Chomsky, member of New Zealand parliament Keith Locke,
Australian politician Ian Cohen, member of German
Parliament Ruprecht Polenz, former Mexican President
Vicente Fox, former U.S. National Security Council
advisor Peter D. Feaver, Nobel Prize laureate in
Physics Wolfgang Ketterle, Nobel Prize laureate in
Chemistry Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize laureate in
biology Robin Warren, famous German political prisoner
Ernst Zündel, Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff,
American author Stephen Kinzer, syndicated journalist
Eric Margolis, former assistant of the U.S. Department
of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts,
American-Palestinian journalist Ramzy Baroud and the
former President of the American Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences Sid Ganis.
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