"Israel Is The Real Threat To Middle East Peace"

A U.N. nuclear conference indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview, but the Jewish state evaded a Muslim-led attempt to link it to nuclear proliferation in the Mideast.

As in past years at the International Atomic Energy Agency's general conference, Iran, Israel's most outspoken foe, spearheaded the verbal attack on Israel, which is widely considered to have nuclear arms but has a "no tell" policy on the issue.

Chief Iranian delegate Ali Ashgar Soltanieh said Israel's nuclear capabilities represent a "serious and continued threat to the security of neighboring and other states."

And he took the U.S. and other Western backers of Israel to task for their "shameful silence" on what he said was the menace posed by Israel's atomic arsenal.

The meeting of 145 nations voted for a resolution urging all nations to open their nuclear activities to outside inspections and work toward the establishment of a Mideast nuclear weapons free zone.

With Israel the only country in the region considered to have atomic arms, passage of the resolution constituted indirect criticism of the Jewish state.

The resolution called on all nations in the Middle East "not to develop, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons," and urged nuclear weapons states to "refrain from any action" hindering the establishment of a Mideast zone free of nuclear weapons.

The United States and the European Union managed to block an effort by Muslim nations and their supporters to submit a resolution more directly critical of Israel and its "nuclear capabilities."

The issue of establishing a Mideast nuclear weapons free zone has been on the IAEA conference agenda for 16 years, though the vote Saturday was only the third on the topic.

Muslim nations consider Israel the region's main nuclear threat. The United States and its allies see Iran's defiance of the U.N. Security Council in its development of technology that could be used to make the bomb as the greatest menace to Middle East peace.

Iran says it wants to perfect the technology — uranium enrichment — not to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads but for fuel to generate power.

    The UN nuclear weapons watchdog agency is asking to examine and verify Israel's "undeclared" nuclear weapons status, something Israel , the US and the EU oppose. The $64,000 question is why the opposition? Why the emphasis on Iran as a nuclear threat when it has no nuclear weapons? Why is Israel so evasive about it's nuclear capabilities? Might it be that if an investigation would be carried out, the evidence might show the US guilty of nuclear proliferation in aiding and supplying Israel with nuclear weapons technology? Clearly a nation known for "preemptive attacks" having nuclear weapons would be a grave threat in any region of the world. As I see it, the Zionist Israel regime is the real threat to Middle East peace, not Iran, Syria or Iraq. Barack Obama or John McCain, are you listening?

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