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Should Israel be required to sign the NPT? [W:348]

Should Israel be required to sign the NPT


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I saw a story that talked about how the U.S. government recently released classified documents on Israel's nuclear program. Since its obvious that Israel has a nuclear weapons program, should they be required to sign the NPT?

Of course they should.
 
Evidently the U.S. and Israel have a secret agreement that the U.S. will shield Israel's nuclear program from international scrutiny. I wonder what we got in return? Perhaps nothing.

President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists tell The Washington Times.

The issue will likely come to a head when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mr. Obama on May 18 in Washington. Mr. Netanyahu is expected to seek assurances from Mr. Obama that he will uphold the U.S. commitment and will not trade Israeli nuclear concessions for Iranian ones.

Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, speaking Tuesday at a U.N. meeting on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), said Israel should join the treaty, which would require Israel to declare and relinquish its nuclear arsenal.

"Universal adherence to the NPT itself, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea, ... remains a fundamental objective of the United States," Ms. Gottemoeller told the meeting, according to Reuters.

She declined to say, however, whether the Obama administration would press Israel to join the treaty.

Secret U.S.-Israel Nuclear Accord in Jeopardy | Fox News
 
But some have interpreted their religious texts to mean that they can use violence and kill to uproot people from their homes to form a Zionist state.

And in fact did just that.
 
Be required by whom? No other nation can dictate terms to Israel. If someone doesn't like what it does, to hell with them.

I hope the story that Israel is trying to make hydrogen bombs is true. The same number of weapons goes further, when each one is larger. It would take a half dozen of more 40-kiloton fission weapons to demolish Tehran completely, for example, while a single fusion bomb of a few megatons would do the same job. Pondering the end of Persian civilization for all time may tend to concentrate the minds of the jihadist curs who rule Iran.

Warmonger!
 
It makes no sense that we should shield Israel's nuclear weapons program when they won't stop settlement expansion when we ask them to do so. That is totally stupid on our part. I guess you can't blame them for taking advantage of us in that way tho. Why do we keep allowing such nonsense?
 
Improved hegemony in the region!

The thing is this, we do all this stuff for them, but when we ask them to do something as simple as stopping the settlement expansion, they spit in our face. It is totally amazing that we allow this type of thing to continue.
 
U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and towards Israel has not and does not until this very day make any damn sense with regards to U.S. interests.
 
The thing is this, we do all this stuff for them, but when we ask them to do something as simple as stopping the settlement expansion, they spit in our face. It is totally amazing that we allow this type of thing to continue.

Well, that's what I meant. Israel is one of our best paid prostitutes in the region. But other than Obama, and maybe Carter, there's been no real push against Israeli expansion. We'd be raising hell if Russia was pushing such expansions.
 
If nothing else it would stop U.S. hypocrisy on the issue.

What hypocrisy? Placing something lower on your priority list does not mean you are a hypocrite. It only means you have different priorities.
 
Once again, a personal insult from you. You are showing everyone here that you don't have enough facts or reasoning ability to come up with anything better.

You, are a warmonger. And your desire that Israel produce hydrogen bombs, when the world should be eliminating such weapons is only one example of demonstration of it.
 
What do you mean by required?
Required by who?
And why aren't you referring this question to other non-signatories to the NPT such as India and Pakistan?
 
You mean to say that Pakistan and India are threats to Israel?

I do not think that is a relevant argument. More that everyone has accepted India and Pakistan having the bomb.
 
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