Posted on 05/01/2010 4:31:04 PM PDT by Tigen
Citing unnamed US officials, Wall Street Journal reports White House seeking conference on non-binding agreement emerging from 1995 UN review of Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Initiative could raise new tensions between President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu
US officials are in talks with Egypt over a plan to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, part of an effort to block the Iranian nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the White House wanted to build on a non-binding agreement that emerged from a 1995 UN review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
That agreement had designated the region as a zone free of weapons of mass destruction: The aim now was to promote a Middle East nuclear weapons-free zone, which would include Israel, the Arab....
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Israel is NOT going to give up its deterrent force.
Boy! You gotta know that one’s in the bag.
Israel has never publicly acknowledged having nuclear weapons, maintaining a policy of deliberate ambiguity since it inaugurated its Dimona nuclear reactor in 1965.
It is not a party to the NPT, which requires international inspections.
They don't officially have nuclear weapons... :-)
7 year countdown?
What a vile, evil man Obama is. It seems there is a new outrage every week.
He’s 40 years too late. Iran has aleady signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Let’s make America a “Non-Liberal Zone” in the upcoming elections. nobama and his minions make me cringe daily with their slopping about.
is that the same as a gun free zone?
And its deterrent nuke force will be used in the destruction of Egypt and Syria.
Of course, but his globalist elite handlers are an order of magnitude more evil than their frontman Obama.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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So now the US and Egypt make the decisions for Iran and Israel, and they’re BOTH supposed to just line up liked whipped puppies. Hello? Iran has had enough carrots, and badly needs a stick. Israel, it seems, has the sole onus of wielding that stick, while Obamerica keeps trying to whittle it down if not break it.
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