Israel DM Rejects Middle East Nuclear Arms Ban.

Imagine if Iran claimed that it had to develop nuclear weapons until Israel withdrew from Palestinian lands and signed a peace deal with the Palestinians. Of course Israel would never submit to inspection by the IAEA since the inspection would confirm what everyone knows that Israel already has nuclear weapons. Israel is outnumbered 100 to 1 in a vote favoring a nuclear free Middle East. Even the US simply abstained a rather strange move if one is in favor of the idea!

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Israeli DM Rejects Nuclear Arms Ban, Citing Muslims
Posted By Jason Ditz On September 17, 2009 @ 6:08 pm In Uncategorized
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak insisted today that his government will not consider signing any treaty calling for a nuclear-free Middle East because of the “unruly” nature of the Muslim nations in the region.

Ehud Barak
“Until the Muslim world from Marakesh (Morocco) to Bangladesh behaves like Western Europe, there can be no debate on nuclear disarmament,” Barak declared in an editorial published by Yedioth Ahronoth.
Israel is actually the only country in the Middle East which possesses a nuclear arsenal, though it only occasionally admits that this is the case. The nation launched a 1981 attack on Iraq over suspicions it might be attempting to acquire a nuclear weapon. It has already repeatedly threatened to attack Iran over its civilian nuclear program.
The IAEA assembly voted 100-1 today to support a nuclear free Middle East, with only Israel voting against the draft. The United States abstained though it insists that it supports the idea.
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