The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Monday to approve a
resolution calling on Israel to open up its nuclear weapons program to
international inspectors and to end its refusal to join the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treary, or NPT.
Friday 7 December 2012
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A vote by the
United Nations general assembly has called on Israel to open its nuclear
programme to weapons inspectors. (Photograph: Chip East/Reuters)
The
resolution passed with a 174-6 vote, and included 6 abstentions.
Israel, the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau were
the "no" votes.
Also included in the UN measure
was a call to reschedule a recently cancelled conference that would
push for a 'nuclear-free Middle East,' something that all countries
across the region, including Iran, have supported. A meeting on the
issue was planned for this month in Helsinki, FInland, but was
cancelled, or at least postponed, by the U.S. at the end of November.
Though
the Israeli nuclear weapons arsenal is widely known to exist, neither
the nation's government or its key ally, the U.S., will publicly
acknowledge the program.
This refusal has long
helped Israel avoid acknowledging the hypocrisy of its repeated threats
against Iran for its nascent nuclear technology program.
The
Associated Press report the following: Resolutions adopted by the
193-member General Assembly are not legally binding but they do reflect
world opinion and carry moral and political weight.
Israel
refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear bombs though it is widely
believed to have a nuclear arsenal. It has refused to join the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty, or NPT, along with three nuclear weapon states —
India, Pakistan and North Korea.
And John Glaser, writing at Antiwar.com, adds:
If
Israel agreed to dismantling its vast stockpiles of nuclear weapons and
to a deal enforcing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East – a
deal Iran and Israel’s Arab neighbors have repeatedly proposed – the
supposed threats Israel faces in the region would virtually disappear.
But
Israel refuses to give up its nuclear monopoly, insistent on
maintaining its excuse to build up its military and distract from the
Palestinian issue.
As former CIA Middle East
analyst Paul Pillar has written, “the Iran issue” provides a
“distraction” from international “attention to the Palestinians’ lack of
popular sovereignty.”
- Common Dreams
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