Netanyahu to ask Obama to block measures over Israel's nukes

Haretz ^ | May 30. 2010 | Barak Ravid, Yossi Melman and Amir Oren

[SmartInsight]

The prime minister will meet with the U.S. president at the White House on Tuesday, after the U.S. backed a call for inspection of Israeli nuclear installations at the NPT Review Conference.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will ask for clarifications about the U.S. position on the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference when he meets with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Tuesday.

The Review Conference was held at the UN headquarters in New York. Its conclusions included a number of decisions that affect Israel: It called for an international conference in 2012 for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons; it called on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open its nuclear installations to international inspection; and it called for the appointment of a special UN envoy on nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

Saturday, sources in Jerusalem expressed disappointed over U.S. conduct on the matter. A senior Israeli official described the American behavior as "surrender and bowing to pressure."

[SmartInsight]

There was also a statement that I haven’t seen in the US media — but Israel is right:

“This resolution is deeply flawed and hypocritical,” an official statement by the Prime Minister’s Bureau read.

“It singles out Israel, the Middle East’s only true democracy and the only country threatened with annihilation. Yet the terrorist regime in Iran, which is racing to develop nuclear weapons and openly threatens to wipe Israel off the map, is not even mentioned in the resolution. The real problem with weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East does not relate to Israel but to those countries that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT ) and brazenly violated it - Iraq under Sadaam, Libya, Syria and Iran.”

[streetpreacher]

Yeah, let’s just keep pissing on Israel and maybe we can lose all of our coastline.

[eyedigress]

The Atlantic Seaboard will bury him. He’s an idiot riding on Satan’s coattails.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[JSteff]

The request alone is a non-starter considering it is Obama we are talking about.

My bet is he and Jimmy drink beer together and trash Israel.
He really is like a Manchurian candidate.

[ChiMark]

The ball is back to Zer0.
Expect more impotent blah, blah.

[Just Lori]

It seems Obama’s plan is to hold our enemies high and kick our allies in the gut.

This is a sad and frightening time for our nation.

[kindred]

Bibi is going to "ask" Obamanaion of desolation; does he expect the Obamanation to give him a positive answer? If he does he is your typical politician, just another fool who does not understand that he is the prime minister of Israel, not the communist muslim Obamantaiton of desolation. I have less and less repspect for modern politicians as they are the biggest liars and thieves and fools on the plantet today.

[2harddrive]

Israel never signed the Non Proliferation “Treaty”, and so is not bound by it, and is not hypocritical, unlike the rabid Arab states.

[misanthrope]

“it called on Israel to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and open its nuclear installations to international inspection

Oh yeah, right. Now why would they do that?

What’s Odickhead really doin’ here?

[Enchante]

“This resolution is deeply flawed and hypocritical"

"deeply flawed and hypocritical is about the best one can say for anything that comes out of the Obozo regime....