Questions about double-standard

I would like to know if any one here in ATS can answer this questions.

Given that Iran has signed up with the IAEA and authorized it's legitimate peaceful nuclear facilities to be inspected, why hasn't IAEA been allowed to inspect Israel's nuclear weapon store, which it has actually threatened to use pre-emptively against a non-nuclear armed Iran?
Which nation has a history of aggression in the region and ignores UN resolutions, is it Iran or Israel?

My opinion is that the USA and Israel are indeed building the anti-Muslim crusader war machine.

kacou

reply to post by kacou


Because Israel doesn't openly admit to having nuclear weapons, that's why inspectors aren't allowed. Even if they did acknowledge having the nukes, nuclear weapon's stores aren't inspected.

Come on, can you really call Israel an aggressor state? They are surrounded by people that hate them. And if Israel has threatened to use their nukes pre-emptively, which I don't recall could you cite a source, Iran has done likewise.

and btw, the issue here is with the NPT, not the IAEA. Article II of the NPT specifically binds non-nuclear weapons states to accept safeguards put in place by the IAEA. Israel is in a gray area. No international organization can force any country to reveal state secrets, and that's what Israel's nuclear weapons are, a well-known secret.

reply to post by avingard


Thank you for your reply.
Iran also never admited or admit having nuclear weapons.

"In early 1968, the CIA issued a report concluding that Israel had successfully started production of nuclear weapons. This estimate, however, was based on an informal conversation between Carl Duckett, head of the CIA's Office of Science and Technology, and Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb. Teller said that, based on conversations with friends in the Israeli scientific and defense establishment, he had concluded that Israel was capable of building the bomb, and that the CIA should not wait for an Israeli test to make a final assessment because that test would never be carried out."

My thread is about double standard, it is well known in the political arena that Israel has "Nuks". Lets not delude our self and pretend that we can open on eye to one country and close the other for another country.
If you want fare and democracy for all, then we should apply all this fancy speech to action. The myth about Israel security is too old to be play again and again, same as the holocaust (no disrespect).
Has my thread said , the world with a double standard attitude is a politic that will not bring peace, democracy, or any fancy great idea but a lots of hypocrisy.

Kacou

reply to post by avingard

Futher more.
What would you think about this report below:
" Israel's Stockpiling of Conventional and Nuclear Weapons for pre-emptive Nuclear war.
Confirmed by several press reports, Israel has taken delivery, starting in September 2004 of some 500 US produced BLU 109 bunker buster bombs (WP, January 6, 2006). The first procurement order for BLU 109 [Bomb Live Unit] dates to September 2004. In April 2005, Washington confirmed that Israel was to take delivery of 100 of the more sophisticated bunker buster bomb GBU-28 produced by Lockheed Martin ( Reuters, April 26, 2005). The GBU-28 is described as "a 5,000-pound laser-guided conventional munitions that uses a 4,400-pound penetrating warhead." It was used in the Iraqi war theater:

The Pentagon [stated] that ... the sale to Israel of 500 BLU-109 warheads, [was] meant to "contribute significantly to U.S. strategic and tactical objectives." .

Mounted on satellite-guided bombs, BLU-109s can be fired from F-15 or F-16 jets, U.S.-made aircraft in Israel's arsenal. This year Israel received the first of a fleet of 102 long-range F-16Is from Washington, its main ally. "Israel very likely manufactures its own bunker busters, but they are not as robust as the 2,000-pound (910 kg) BLUs," Robert Hewson, editor of Jane's Air-Launched Weapons, told Reuters. (Reuters, 21 September 2004)

Israel possesses 100-200 strategic nuclear warheads . In 2003, Washington and Tel Aviv confirmed that they were collaborating in "the deployment of US-supplied Harpoon cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Israel's fleet of Dolphin-class submarines." (The Observer, 12 October 2003) . In more recent developments, which coincide with the preparations of strikes against Iran, Israel has taken delivery of two new German produced submarines "that could launch nuclear-armed cruise missiles for a "second-strike" deterrent." (Newsweek, 13 February 2006. See also CDI Data Base)"

Kacou