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Us Pressures Arab Countries Not To Push For Israel To Join NPT. Why??

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday September 15, 2010 00:10author by V for vendetta Report this post to the editors

The US has been recently pressuring arab countries not to press for Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Why is this such a big deal for them?

The US has been pressuring arab and other nations not to press for Israel to Join the NPT. Why is this such a problem for them? Everyone knows Israel has at least 200 nuclear weapons since they were outed by Mordechai Vanunu. Yet they still insist on Israel's right to "pretend" that they have none. Is this because there might possibly be some legal fallout from such an official admission? After all knowingly giving billions of aid from US taxpayers to a country developing a nuclear weapons program outside the NPT is certainly a breach of the NPT.

See the beginning of the included video by Max Kaiser for the calculation. Here Max reckons, somewhat tongue in cheek, that the state of Israel owe every man, woman and child at least 5000 dollars reimbursement for the illegal aid payments to Israel.

Here is a link to the breaking story on Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/05/20....html

Being a very litigious country, I hope somebody decides to take a case and sue the american government for taking their tax money under false pretences and in clear knowing violation of international law on giving military aid to rogue countries in breach of the NPT

All this is tinged with Irony considering the rigorous IAEA standards currently being imposed on Iran (and largely being adhered to)

Accompanying this is an announcement that 60 billion dollars worth of weapons are being sold to Saudi Arabia
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/....html

One wonders if the US has other motivations for not taking effective actions to help bring peace and a nuclear free middle east whilst drumming up the fear of a nuclear armed Iran in the media and political dialogue.

It's hard to keep up with the machinations isn't it?

Caption: Video Id: 0U2oMEWPaRA Type: Youtube Video
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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Issue of Israel up for discussion today. Fingers crossed everyone     V for vendetta    Thu Sep 16, 2010 09:24 
   catch 22     but.......    Fri Sep 17, 2010 22:52 
   "Speak Softly.. but carry a Big Stick."     Cannannite.    Sat Sep 18, 2010 15:06 
   Containment.     Physicist.    Sat Sep 18, 2010 15:30 
   hang on a minit...     opus diablos    Sat Sep 18, 2010 16:25 


 
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