If Israel has nukes, why can't the rest?
The U.S. adopts a biased stance towards countries who possess or seek
nuclear technology or weapons, allowing states like Israel, India to
proceed
without any interference, although they failed to fulfill their
commitments
under the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), while it piles the
pressure on and fights others like Iran, Iraq (before toppling Saddam
Hussein) and North Korea for them not to have nukes.
Democratic People's Republic of North Korea has recently stated it won't
accept nor allow the U.S.'s double standards in dealing with nuclear
equipped countries, according to a Korean Times re****t that also stated
that
there will only be the prospect of settling the
nuclear issue when the United States abandons prejudiced double standards,
as North Korea demands.
The United States turns a blind eye to the nuclear threat posed by Israel,
a
country believed to have the most advanced nuclear weapons program in the
Middle East, while it pressures other countries like Iran to abandon its
nuclear program or face a grim future under possible sanctions imposed by
the UN Security Council if it managed to lobby international sup****t
against
the Islamic republic.
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion established Israel's nuclear program,
centered at the Negev Nuclear Research Center, in the late 1950s, claiming
it's become essential to meet the mounting threat the Jewish State faces
from its neighbours.
Israel's possession of nuclear program that has approximately 100-200
nuclear explosive devices, together with its policy of declaratory
ambiguity
stand as the core of instability and tension that has plagued the Middle
East region.
Last year Israel accepted a visit from International Atomic Energy Agency
director Mohamed ElBaradei, yet asserting it will never consider dropping
nuclear arms (although it doesn't admit to that either) only after a
comprehensive Middle Eastern peace is obtained. It also rejected to give
the
international inspectors access to its Dimona nuclear complex.
Wa****ngton aided Israel in acquiring nuclear weapons, and ignored Japan's;
knowing it's stockpiling plutonium beyond what it actually needs so as to
emerge as a nuclear power.
But America's double standards regarding nuclear weapons have become even
more blatant; permitting countries that are non-signatories of the NPT to
have nuclear programs if they transfer their nuclear technology to the
United States- It seems that Wa****ngton's stance from nuclear armed
countries has become dependant on whether a country is or is not its ally.
Another example of America's biased approach regarding the nuclear issue,
is
its stance towards Korean Peninsula.
North Korea demands America to adopt measures to treat it as it does other
non-NPT signatories that possess nuclear weapons. It seems threatening
Wa****ngton indirectly that if it insisted on its policy of double
standards
and ignored N. Korea's demands, the result will
paralyze the world's nuclear non-proliferation regime and disturb global
stability.
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