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Putin: 'Israel's nuclear weapons just make it a target'
jpost.com ^
| September 19, 2013
Posted on 09/19/2013 2:03:31 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Israel’s alleged nuclear weapons stockpile only serves to make the Jewish state “a target” and creates “foreign policy problems.”
Putin’s comments, reported by AFP, came in response to questions from reporters on the US and Russia-brokered deal to put Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal under international supervision.
According to AFP, Putin said that Syria had developed chemical weapons “as an alternative to the nuclear weapons of Israel.”
The Russian president claimed that “the technical advantage of Israel – we need to say this directly – is such that it doesn’t need nuclear weapons. Israel is already in a technical military sense several heads above the countries in the region.”
Putin added that “nuclear weapons just make it a target. They just create foreign policy problems.”
The chemical weapons deal with Syria has increased pressure on Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Some 190 states have joined the NPT, whose goal is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology.
Of the world’s nuclear powers, only four have not joined the treaty. Of these, India, Pakistan and North Korea have all openly tested nuclear weapons. Israel continues with its policy of nuclear ambiguity.
Israel has refused to sign the NPT despite pressure from the international community.
However, when it comes to the Chemical Weapons Convention, the country might be more flexible.
“Israel has an interest in a chemical free zone as opposed to a nuclear-free zone,” Eitan Barak, a professor of international relations from Hebrew University said.
“That would leave Israel with its alleged monopoly on nuclear weapons,” he said.
The state has always kept a low profile when it comes to its own chemical weapons program. They signed the CWC in 1982 but never ratified it, which means that Israel considers itself bound by the spirit of the treaty, but not legally obligated to observe it.
“The main pretext for Israel’s refusal to ratify the treaty was the Syrian arsenal,” Eitan Barak, a professor of international relations from Hebrew University, told The Media Line. “Israel says Syria is a neighboring country, hostile, with a large arsenal of chemical weapons and we need to be able to retaliate.”
He said that given Israel’s pharmaceutical success, it is likely that the state has a significant arsenal of these armaments. Local officials say that efforts to force it to join the CWC are duplicitous.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia
KEYWORDS: israel
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Same could be said for Putty’s nukes, so he should just give em up.
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posted on
09/19/2013 2:59:05 PM PDT
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
To: Tailgunner Joe
Wow-—end times prophecies are lining up..Ezekiel 37-39 anyone?
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posted on
09/19/2013 3:01:55 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Putin stepped in it this time, those that want to disarm you intend to bully you.
23
posted on
09/19/2013 3:05:04 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Oh - so that is why from 1947 till the present day, the nation of Israel has been attacked - because of their
weapons.
It's all clear to me now...
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posted on
09/19/2013 3:30:39 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Yes, Putin is wrong here...and you can bet every Liberal Free Trader Commie Globalist will run with this any time Putin says something sensible
Funny how Putin’s biggest critics have no problem funding the largest Communist Party ever created...
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posted on
09/19/2013 3:54:36 PM PDT
by
SeminoleCounty
(I still remember when anyone considered trading with Communist enemy...they were executed)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Putin knows that Israel’s weapons are the most advanced, and that is why he’s crying.
But what he is disregarding is what is really going to give him a headache: Yehova is biased. He’s on Israel’s side.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:00:36 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Errant
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:04:58 PM PDT
by
gotribe
(Vladimir Putin is MY President)
To: tflabo
Actually, Zechariah is in line before Zeke, So is Psalms 83.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:08:02 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Tailgunner Joe
There’s no way that someone as smart as Putin believes the nonsense he’s spewing, so that immediately leads to the question “Why is he spewing it?”
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:08:28 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Errant
Too bad disk 5 of Jonah Code isn’t on line anymore, it fits in here real well. :o)
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:10:31 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: Slings and Arrows
>> “Why is he spewing it?” <<
.
He eats the same bad food for breakfast as sKerry, Biden, and Ubama. (it has to go somewhere)
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:13:32 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: editor-surveyor
I grinned, but my question was serious. I’d really like to know what Putin’s trying to accomplish.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:18:00 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Mastador1
Yes, well....they’re also vastly outnumbered. Odd how he would note the technical advantage Israel holds. The nations Israel has fought and defeated all used Soviet equipment and tactics.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:19:35 PM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: Tailgunner Joe
guess they aren’t surprised we’re’viewing a nuclear iran as a ahuge target.
it also hasn’t made russia give up their nukes.
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:48:29 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:50:33 PM PDT
by
SJackson
( The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. BF)
To: SJackson
What part of “Never again!” does putin not understand?
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posted on
09/19/2013 4:56:38 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Errant
Somewhat slightly different translation
Bible Gateway:Zechariah 12:2-3 Zechariah 12:2-3
English Standard Version (ESV)
2 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah. 3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:04:44 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst Is Yet To Come)
To: editor-surveyor
Would it be too much of an imposition to have you kindly elaborate, expand upon your comment?
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:10:34 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama:The Worst Is Yet To Come)
To: lbryce
Indeed.
"The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah."
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posted on
09/19/2013 5:57:19 PM PDT
by
Errant
Yes, communists in one party and fascists in the other do cheer Putin's efforts against Israel and the U.S.A. Funny thing, though. They're rather concentrated around large coastal cities.
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by
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