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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: philv who wrote (10961)	5/20/2006 2:33:26 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Phil > It seems that this is fully embraced by the Bush regime. In fact, the Iraq invasion was justified on those grounds; weapons of mass destruction and imminent danger. Yes, and for this reason the US invasion of Iraq is a war crime expressly forbidden by the findings at Nuremberg and the UN Charter. Clearly, there was no immediate threat to the US except in its own mind and even then the threat was bogus. Unfortunately, since Kofi Annan has no testicles and the UN is powerless to do anything about anything, the US gets away with murder. > I am not nearly as convinced as you that war with Iran is off the books. I don't say it's off the books but certainly off the immediate agenda. In fact, the US seems to have shifted its whole position and Israel's maverick nuclear status is now a bone of contention. haaretz.com >>The United States on Thursday published a draft of a new international treaty that would forbid the production of fissionable materials for use in nuclear weapons, overriding Israel's objections to the proposed document. The draft, which was presented to the UN Disarmament Commission in Geneva, aims to "freeze" existing stocks of fissionable materials worldwide in order to keep them from expanding. Although Washington sent messages to Israel assuring it that it has nothing to fear from the treaty, Jerusalem is worried by any move that might erode its policy of nuclear ambiguity and generate future pressures on it over its nuclear program. As a result, Israel made a last-minute effort to persuade the U.S. not to submit the draft for discussion: The chairman and deputy chairman of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, Gideon Frank and Eli Levita, were in Washington last week, where they are believed to have raised this issue with their American counterparts. Washington has also rejected Israel's request for an upgrade in its civilian nuclear status. Israel's ability to purchase civilian nuclear technology, including spare parts, is currently very limited, because in order to preserve ambiguity over whether it has nuclear weapons, it has refused to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).<< This "ambiguity" shows clearly that Israel is the principal nuclear transgressor, in fact the only one, and that Israel's objection to Iran's program is simply a red-herring.