IAEA 'puts Israeli nukes on agenda'

IAEA 'puts Israeli nukes on agenda'
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:12:52 GMT
The UN nuclear watchdog has unanimously agreed to put the issue of Israel's nuclear capabilities on the agenda of its annual meeting.

After requests by the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab League, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed to put the issue of Israel's nuclear capabilities on the agenda of the 52nd annual meeting of the UN body.

The move was initially met with protests by the US and Canada but the two countries had to back down from their position after they realized that other member states of the IAEA meeting's presidential board would not support their stance, an informed source told Fars News Agency on Monday.

Israel is believed to possess the only nuclear arsenal of the Middle East but it has so far refused to allow IAEA inspectors to visit its nuclear sites.

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Israel irked by IAEA move on its nukes
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:11:48 GMT
Israeli nuclear reactor of Dimona in the Negev desert
An initiative by Iran and Arab League member states to put the Israeli regime's nuclear activities under scrutiny has irked Tel Aviv.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed on Monday to put the issue of "Israel's nuclear capabilities" on the agenda of the UN body's annual meeting upon a request by Iran and several other countries including the Arab states.

Based on the initiative, the IAEA would pass a resolution calling for a nuclear weapon free Middle East.

Israel is believed to have the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East although the regime has not officially admitted it.

In reaction to the decision, Israel filed a motion on Monday to remove the issue from the IAEA's agenda. It also termed the move as inconsistent and "substantially unwarranted and flawed", The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.

"Among sponsors of this draft resolution are states which openly do not recognize Israel and even call for its annihilation," Israel's Atomic Energy Commission Director Shaul Chorev said in reference to Iran.

"What is the moral standing of sponsors of this agenda item who do not recognize Israel's right to exist while criticizing Israeli policies aiming at securing its very existence?â?� he asked.

Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh has condemned the "shameful silence" of Israel's Western allies about its nuclear exclusivity.

The US and Israel are accusing Iran of developing nuclear arms, but in its recent report, the UN nuclear watchdog said there has been no evidence of weaponization in Iran's nuclear activities.

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i hereby predict that due to our committed and unconditional support of israel and due to an argument in lines of "israel will never nuke the world like Iran may do once they get the bomb..."

this will not get anywhere...

here ya go, already came through haha

Nation & World | Veiled criticism of Israel's nukes | Seattle Times Newspaper

Veiled criticism of Israel's nukes

A U. N. nuclear conference indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview...

Originally published Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 12:00 AM
By The Associated Press

VIENNA, Austria â?? A U.N. nuclear conference indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview, but the Jewish state evaded a Muslim-led attempt to link it to nuclear proliferation in the Mideast.

As in past years at the International Atomic Energy Agency's general conference, Iran, Israel's most outspoken foe, spearheaded the verbal attack on Israel, which is widely considered to have nuclear arms but has a "no-tell" policy on the issue.

Chief Iranian delegate Ali Ashgar Soltanieh said Israel's nuclear capabilities represent a "serious and continued threat to the security of neighboring and other states."

And he took the U.S. and other Western backers of Israel to task for their "shameful silence" on what he said was the menace posed by Israel's atomic arsenal.

The meeting of 145 nations voted for a resolution urging all nations to open their nuclear activities to outside inspections and work toward the establishment of a Mideast nuclear-weapons-free zone.

With Israel the only country in the region considered to have atomic arms, passage of the resolution constituted indirect criticism of the Jewish state.

The resolution called on all nations in the Middle East "not to develop, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons," and urged nuclear-weapons states to "refrain from any action" hindering the establishment of a Mideast zone free of nuclear weapons.

The United States and the European Union managed to block an effort by Muslim nations and their supporters to submit a resolution more directly critical of Israel and its "nuclear capabilities."

I'm willing to put my down that the U.S. or Israel drops the first bomb in the Nuclear Holocaust. We're too terrified to let anyone else do it first.