IAEA to press for inspections of Israel's nuclear facility

[L@mplighterM]

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Thursday, June 3, 2004
JERUSALEM – The International Atomic Energy Agency plans a campaign to force Israel to permit international inspections of its Dimona nuclear facility.

The agency has been under longterm pressure from the European Union, Arab states and Iran to focus more attention on Irael's nuclear program.

Several Arab countries reiterated their call for a nuclear free zone in the Middle East during a United Nations sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva on May 27. Arab envoys said the establishment of such a zone would be their priority over the coming year.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtri...reaking_2.html

[Mira~]

Originally posted by L@mplighterM
Snip:

Thursday, June 3, 2004
JERUSALEM – The International Atomic Energy Agency plans a campaign to force Israel to permit international inspections of its Dimona nuclear facility.

The agency has been under longterm pressure from the European Union, Arab states and Iran to focus more attention on Irael's nuclear program.

Several Arab countries reiterated their call for a nuclear free zone in the Middle East during a United Nations sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva on May 27. Arab envoys said the establishment of such a zone would be their priority over the coming year.

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtri...reaking_2.html

Based on what? Israel never signed any non-proliferation agreements in exchange for anyone's assistance. Let France and Pakistan disarm first.

[Oh Jerusalem]

Originally posted by Mira
Based on what?

Pressure. Force. Coercsion. Threats.

Did I miss a term?

[Formula]

Let them "inspect". If Iraq & Iran can cover up, im pretty damn sure Israel can.

[tandem]

even if israel does have nukes, i really don't see the priority of stripping it from such weapons. israel is not a radical muslem state like iran, which advocates violence and hate against non-muslems and openly support terrorism. israel is a civilized society. israel poses no threat to arab states or certainly not to europe, and i think many in europe know that very well. but as long as the europeans keep sticking their tongue up the arabs' arse i guess there will always be pressure on israel.

[Justcurious]

What would Israel want to hide? If there's nothing to hide, why avoid inspections?

[TDidier]

Originally posted by Justcurious
What would Israel want to hide? If there's nothing to hide, why avoid inspections?

Because if Israel has realy no nuke (and that is a real possibility), they would immediatly be invaded.

Propaganda is veryu important in a war, especially when there is a so great difference of forces...

[Justcurious]

Originally posted by TDidier
Because if Israel has realy no nuke (and that is a real possibility), they would immediatly be invaded.

Propaganda is veryu important in a war, especially when there is a so great difference of forces...

Yes it is, but why then was Mordechai Vanunu imprisoned?

http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/morestory.html

[Mil]

Don't warry you all. It will never happen not until there would be a 100% way to verify WMD weapon programs of everyone else in the area.

[Mil]

Posted by Justcurious:


What would Israel want to hide?


There is nothing to hide - really. Everyone knows that Israel has a very developed and one of the oldest nuclear programs in the world.

If there's nothing to hide, why avoid inspections?


Revealing the possession of a nuclear weapons is actually the least of Israeli concerns. The fear is of getting engaged in the entire process of nuclear weapon oversite which has a very large possibility of security breach is. Israel, as you would imagine, is a country very much concerned with its security and I really don't think that they would want Muhammed Baredai - an Egyptian - having the exact knowledge of location of Israeli nukes and their exact capabilities.

Plus succumbing to ARAB driven pressure, the main reason why Israel has nukes in the first place, is below Israel's dignity.

[Mil]

Posted by Justcurious:


Yes it is, but why then was Mordechai Vanunu imprisoned?


That's not a secret - Vanunu sold Israeli nuclear and other state secrets. During the Cold War he certainly was not a unique case at all. Many Soviet, American, British, French, Chinese and other nationals betrayed state secrets either for ideological, monetory and a sleuth of other reasons. Israel was no exception. It is just Vanuu made too much noise on the matter. In the Soviet Union there were such spies as Penkovsky who sold out entire agent lists.....

[Justcurious]

Mil, a long and detailed answer, but you didn't even want to comment on Vanunu's imprisonment. Why would anybody be imprisoned, if everyone accepts that Israel has nukes?

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Sorry, what I said above was just before you had written the preceding comments.

[tandem]

Originally posted by Justcurious
Yes it is, but why then was Mordechai Vanunu imprisoned?

http://www.nonviolence.org/vanunu/morestory.html

vanunu is a piece of traitor. he never revealed, or at least he never got the chance to reveal, precisely how many nukes israel has. whatever you read in the media about how many nukes israel have is pure speculation. the core issue with vanunu is he sold out the security of his country and his people for money. if he did not feel comfortable about doing what he was doing, he should have just resign and that's it. but to go to the international press and reveal a secret weapons program that you were entrusted to work in and collect over 500,000 pounds for your story, fully knowing that what you'll disclose is an absolute threat to the existence of your country, he deserves to be hanged like adolf eichmann.