Posted on 09/18/2009 8:20:55 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
The United Nations nuclear assembly voted on Friday to urge Israel to accede to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and place all atomic sites under the world body's inspections, in a surprise victory for Arab states.
The resolution, passed narrowly for the first time in nearly two decades, expresses concern about "Israeli nuclear capabilities" and calls on the International Atomic Energy Agency chief, Mohamed ElBaradei, to work on the issue.
The Middle East resolution, sponsored by Arab states, was backed by 49 votes to 45 against in a floor vote at the IAEA's annual member states conference. The vote split along Western and developing nation lines. There were 16 abstentions.
Iranian Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh told reporters the passage of the resolution was "very good news and a triumph for the oppressed nation of Palestine."
Russia and China backed the resolution.
Israel is one of only three countries worldwide along with India and Pakistan outside the nuclear NPT and is widely assumed to have the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, though it has never confirmed or denied it.
"The delegation of Israel deplores this resolution," David Danieli, deputy director of Israel's atomic energy commission, told the chamber after the vote.
"Israel will not cooperate in any matter with this resolution which is only aiming at reinforcing political hostilities and lines of division in the Middle East region."
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
So this week, Mitchell has met twice with Bibi to harass him to stop allowing Jews to build houses in the land of Israel, a U.N. report declared Israel guilty of war crimes for defending themselves after being attacked with missiles from Gaza, and now the arabs and their friends have voted to demand that Israel allow for inspections of their nuclear sites. It's like a dream come true for Jimmy Carter.
I forget, how many Nations has Israel arbitrarily threatened to offensively obliterate with their defensive nukes?
Yup, NONE.
L'Shana Tova to all of Bnei Yisroel.
If we can’t beat Obamunism here, I may just have to move to either Israel or Honduras.
I was thinking they can count them as they fly overhead toward Iran.
I give Israel a lot of credit for not nuking the UN. Lord knows it would be justified.
Bibi should respond:
We do NOT look to the UN to enhance the security interests of Israel. We have, however, come to expect the UN to undermine our security interests. Israel has NO obligation to assist them in this effort.
The UN....the Unpunished Nazis
Sad we allow this terrorist organization to HQ themselves on US territory
LOL...LOL...LOL :)
And in the meantime, Iran announced that “Israel does not have long.”
God be with the Israelis. They have the military strength and moral clarity to destroy Iran overnight. I just hope they have the will.
F-— the UN totalitarianists.
From ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War
“The war commenced upon the termination of the British Mandate of Palestine in mid-May 1948 following a previous phase of civil war in 1947–1948. After the Arab rejection of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (UN General Assembly Resolution 181) that would have created an Arab state and a Jewish state side by side, five Arab states invaded the territory of the former British Mandate of Palestine.”
Go Israel!
Israel has developed nuclear weapons.
The size and capabilities of their stockpile is not known.
Israel has never acknowledged these facts.
Obama knows all the details, all the secrets.
The Israeli's secret is in jeopardy.
The recording will be released in time for ramadan.
End time prophecies are shaping up and as predicted the tiny nation of Israel is flat in the thick of it all.
Is the beginning of the 7 years of tribulation close at hand?
End time prophecies are shaping up and as predicted the tiny nation of Israel is flat in the thick of it all.
Is the beginning of the 7 years of tribulation close at hand?
sorry for the double post.
I say count ‘em as they blow up...
Why, exactly, is it wrong to ask Israel to play by the same rules that Israel itself asks others to obey?
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