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To: bentway who wrote (182866)	3/4/2006 9:07:23 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

We should pressure Israel to open themselves to IAEA inspections. Pressure them all you want. They can legally tell everyone to "pss up a rope" since they are not a signator of the NPT. NPT Article III: The IAEA administers international safeguards to verify that non-nuclear weapon States party to the NPT fulfill the non-proliferation commitment they have made*, "with a view to preventing diversion of nuclear energy from peaceful uses to nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices." iaea.org So your first step Chris, is to pressure Israel to become a signator to the NPT. That's the legal process that must be followed before you can use the IAEA as an enforcement tool to enforce their compliance. Now think about it another way.. There are any number of treaties, including Kyoto, (clinton signed Kyoto in 1998, but we are not bound to it due to non-ratification in the congress) that the US has not signed, and are directly deleterious to our economic well-being, or national security interests. So what you're telling us is that the rest of the world could send some enforcement agency to make us comply with a treaty we have not signed onto. And that's a direct violation of sovereignty. So think about the precedent (and can of worms) you'd be opening if you granted the IAEA that ability to force Israel to comply with a treaty they didn't sign onto. Hawk