DonJee
22nd October 2009, 09:56
Obama’s Nuclear Program Double Standards: Iran vs. Israel
Obama Agrees to be Silent on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, but Is Vociferous on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Barack Obama, the US president, has agreed to abide by a 40-year policy of allowing Israel to keep nuclear weapons without opening them to international inspection, according to a US newspaper.
In a report on Saturday, The Washington Times quoted three unnamed sources as saying Obama had confirmed to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, that he would maintain the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The incident reportedly occurred when the two met at the White House in Washington DC in May.
Neither Israel’s embassy in Washington, nor the White House National Security Council would comment on the claim.
Avner Cohen, an Israeli expert and author, was quoted by the paper as saying that under the deal “the United States passively [accepts] Israel’s nuclear weapons status as long as Israel does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon”.
There is no official accounting of the deal, supposedly agreed in 1969 between Richard Nixon, then US president, and Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister at the time.
‘Strategic understandings’
In an interview last week with Israel’s Channel 2 media company, Netanyahu spoke of his confidence that Obama’s recent remarks on a world free of nuclear weapons would not apply to Israel. [more]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is discussing Iran’s nuclear capabilities just as Israel accused the monitoring body of holding back on its most recent report on Iran.
Israel says it “expects the international community to take substantive and prompt steps to halt Iran’s military nuclear programme.”
But what about Israel’s nuclear arsenal?
It is a well-known secret that Israel has nuclear capabilities and nuclear weapons. Officially, Israel has a policy of not confirming or denying its nuclear capabilities.
Experts and anti-nuclear activists argue that the way in which the West deals with Israel’s programme sets a dangerous double standard that makes it impossible to stem the tide of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East or anywhere else.
Breaking with past precedent, a US state department official recently said that they would like Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but a White House official went on to note that the Israeli and Iranian programmes were unrelated “apples and oranges”
http://makkah.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/nuclear-weapons-double-standards/
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WoW! I didn't know all this info. What is going on in this world?
Obama Agrees to be Silent on Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, but Is Vociferous on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Barack Obama, the US president, has agreed to abide by a 40-year policy of allowing Israel to keep nuclear weapons without opening them to international inspection, according to a US newspaper.
In a report on Saturday, The Washington Times quoted three unnamed sources as saying Obama had confirmed to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, that he would maintain the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The incident reportedly occurred when the two met at the White House in Washington DC in May.
Neither Israel’s embassy in Washington, nor the White House National Security Council would comment on the claim.
Avner Cohen, an Israeli expert and author, was quoted by the paper as saying that under the deal “the United States passively [accepts] Israel’s nuclear weapons status as long as Israel does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon”.
There is no official accounting of the deal, supposedly agreed in 1969 between Richard Nixon, then US president, and Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister at the time.
‘Strategic understandings’
In an interview last week with Israel’s Channel 2 media company, Netanyahu spoke of his confidence that Obama’s recent remarks on a world free of nuclear weapons would not apply to Israel. [more]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is discussing Iran’s nuclear capabilities just as Israel accused the monitoring body of holding back on its most recent report on Iran.
Israel says it “expects the international community to take substantive and prompt steps to halt Iran’s military nuclear programme.”
But what about Israel’s nuclear arsenal?
It is a well-known secret that Israel has nuclear capabilities and nuclear weapons. Officially, Israel has a policy of not confirming or denying its nuclear capabilities.
Experts and anti-nuclear activists argue that the way in which the West deals with Israel’s programme sets a dangerous double standard that makes it impossible to stem the tide of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East or anywhere else.
Breaking with past precedent, a US state department official recently said that they would like Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but a White House official went on to note that the Israeli and Iranian programmes were unrelated “apples and oranges”
http://makkah.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/nuclear-weapons-double-standards/
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WoW! I didn't know all this info. What is going on in this world?