The United States said on Tuesday an arab push to single out Israel for criticism over its assumed nuclear arsenal would hurt diplomatic efforts to ban weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
Frustrated over the postponement of an international conference on ridding the region of atomic arms, Arab states have laughably proposed a resolution at a UN nuclear agency meeting expressing concern about "Israeli nuclear capabilities".
The fact that Israel is a genuine democracy and those condemning Israel are mostly rogue states, dictatorships and hell-holes, doesn't come into it of course.
The non-binding text submitted for the first time since 2010 to this week's member meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency calls on Israel to join a global anti-nuclear weapons pact and place its atomic facilities under IAEA monitoring.
Yes people you read it right! A genuine democratic nation is expected to 'comply' to a cartel of Arab states like they were the good guys and Israel the bad.
Israel is widely believed to possess the Middle East's only nuclear arsenal, which is hardly surprising being as it is surrounded by nations that want to wipe it out, as is the frequent Arab and Iranian condemnation and whining also not surprising.
US and Israeli officials - who rightly see Iran's atomic activity as the main proliferation threat - have said a nuclear arms-free zone in the Middle East could not be a reality until there was broad Arab-Israeli peace and Iran curbed its program.
Washington is committed to working toward a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems, the US envoy to the IAEA said.
But the Arab resolution "does not advance our shared goal of progress toward a WMD-free zone in the Middle East," Ambassador Joseph Macmanus said in a comment emailed to Reuters.
"Instead, it undermines efforts at constructive dialogue toward that common objective," Macmanus added.
In other words the Arab side is obstructive, troublesome and unreasonable, but obviously Macmanus couldn't say this.
Israel and the United States rightfully accuse Iran of covertly seeking a nuclear arms capability, something the Islamic state obviously denies.
Iran even this week laughably said Israel's nuclear activities "seriously threaten regional peace and security", despite its own leadership in the past openly boasting that it will one day wipe Israel off the map.
Arab diplomats said they refrained from putting forward their resolution on Israel at the 2011 and 2012 IAEA meetings to boost the chances of the Middle East conference taking place last year but that this had had no effect. A vote on the text may take place on Thursday, one envoy said.
Let's see what plops out the other end.
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