Livni: Israel won't ignore Iran threat
And now the Israelis are following the US's footsteps in threatening to step outside of international law and take action "without requiring a permission slip from the UN", to paraphrase Bush's language.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has said that Israel would not allow the horrific fate of the Jews during the Holocaust to be repeated. This language seems a little premature as Iran are at least ten years away from acquiring the nuclear weapon that Israel already possess, but have not declared. And Iran, unlike Israel, is actually a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation Treaty. Israel refuses to sign and has the US's backing for this stance.
Livni said that the international community was addressing the Iranian nuclear crisis and that the UN Security Council would discuss it soon. The foreign minister added that Israel was founded, among other things, in order to shield Jews and assure that their lives would not be dependant on other countries' decisions.A clear indication that they are reserving the right to take pre-emptive action, with or without the UN's approval.
This is the reality of the world that Bush's arrogant disregard for international law is creating for us. A world where the US's casual dismissal of international norms will be emulated by others, rendering the entire concept of international law and the UN Charter as virtually useless.
It is almost comical to watch these two nations flout international law whilst insisting that others obey it. Lest we forget, Iran is within her rights to enrich uranium; no country is within her rights to take military action without UN approval.
In the upside down world that Bush has created, it is those who steal who seem to be calling everyone else thieves.
The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are threatening to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty if the UN impose sanctions, which will simply make us all even less safe.
"What has more than 30 years of membership in the agency given us?" he asked.
Given the hypocrisy of the Israeli stance, and the fact that Bush has violated the nuclear non-proliferation treaty by threatening to introduce a new range of bunker busting nuclear weapons, one has to say: he has a point.
No-one has yet provided any proof that Iran intend to build a nuclear weapon and Iran is in compliance and does allow UN inspections. Despite this, he has remained under constant threat of attack, from two country's who are - each in their own different way - outwith of the very treaty that they are insisting that Ahmadinejad complies with.
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Do you really think that we're safer if Iran has nuclear weapons?
I find it interesting that although you bash the Israeli right to defend herslef, yet you fail to mention all the hateful rhetoric that Ahmadinejad-the-psychotic has spouted forth.
We waited before. In World War II. And millions of innocent people died.
I never said that we were "safer" if Iran had nuclear weapons and can't understand how you could ever have possibly thought that I said that. Indeed, I said the opposite. I said if Iran withdraws from the treaty that would "make us all less safe". What part of that did you not understand?
I do say that the nuclear non-proliferation treaty calls on nuclear nations to disarm, as well as for no new nations to acquire these weapons.
My point is that we are not sticking to the treaty that we are demanding that others stick to. Our hypocrisy weakens our argument. If we are not serious about adhering to the treaty, how can we expect others to be serious about it?
We appear to be saying that only we are civilised enough to possess such weaponry.
We cannot be surprised if other nation's find this insulting and derogatory.
And when do you imagine that I, "bashed the Israeli right to defend herself?"
Of course Israel has the right to defend herself. What she doesn't have, is the right to act outwith of United Nations.
And that is the right she is trying to claim.
Israel is the last nation on Earth in the position to insist that Iran comply with a treaty that Israel herself has refused to even sign.
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