It’s good to have friends…
“Following up on assurances he made in May, President Obama has reportedly ‘reaffirmed’ a secret understanding whereby he will not reveal the existence of Israel’s widely known nuclear arsenal, nor will he pressure Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Though Israel has often, albeit accidentally, publicly revealed that they have nuclear weapons, the United States officially has followed a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with the arsenal, the only one of its kind in the Middle East.
The revelation is likely to cause some international consternation, particularly since President Obama championed a bill at the UN Security Council only last week demanding that all the nations of the world to join the NPT.
Despite this call, the US publicly and angrily rejected a resolution calling for Israel to join the NPT only a week before that, saying that it was “unfair.” Israel has ruled out ever opening up its arsenal to the same international scrutiny as NPT signatories do.”
And all of this regarding a nation that the United Nations just published a war crimes report regarding. Hey, I’ll be the first to admit that Iran’s human rights record is for shit, that electoral fraud took place last June, and that they support Hezbollah. That said, why even bother with projecting the appearance of giving a shit about nonproliferation if you’re going to condemn one and not the other?
Man I’m getting tired of talking about this subject.