Obama’s Nuclear Present to Netanyahu

Obama is yielding to pressures from the Zionist lobby, according to indications from Washington. After retracting his decision to close Guantanamo within a year, he shocked Arabs with a very serious development. On Wednesday September 30, the Israeli Haaretz revealed that the United States and Israel signed an agreement supporting Tel Aviv’s aspirations in expanding its nuclear program.

Yossi Melman, strategic affairs analyst at Haaretz, stated that the new agreement will serve to further develop and expand on the previous treaties signed between the two countries during the past two decades. He clarified that this agreement allows the Israeli nuclear agency to assess most intelligence, procedures, and technology that is more sophisticated in the U.S. when it comes to maintaining nuclear weapons.

Melman stressed that this deal has important significance because many countries refuse to cooperate with Israel in the nuclear field due to Tel Aviv’s rejection in signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

He further added that during the past few years, Israel has been working tirelessly to broaden its nuclear relations with many countries, seeking to break out from the isolation it found itself in, in addition to boosting safety and security measures in the Dimona reactor.

He clarified that the Dimona reactor produces nuclear weapons, according to Western media reports. The reactor was established 50 years ago and is considered to be relatively old. Melman pointed out that many nuclear experts in Israel expressed fears concerning the possibility of a security breach.

Even though previous statements were geared towards deceiving the Arab world – friendly countries to Washington in particular – into thinking that the new nuclear agreement pertains to protecting the Dimona reactor from radiation leaks, however, that is contrary to the truth. In reality, it is Israel’s desire to bolster its military superiority further, in anticipation of Iran’s success in acquiring nuclear weapons, thereby pushing the Arabs to submit to the forced reality on the ground and to completely forego any thoughts of military action to liberate the occupied Arab territory. Day by day, the balance of power is tilting in Israel’s favor under endless U.S. support for Israel’s greed in the region.

What is more troubling is the fact that the disclosure about Washington and Tel Aviv’s nuclear deal came days after Iran’s announcement of having a new nuclear site. This leaves the door open for a nuclear arms race in the region that leaves no Arab countries secure.

In addition, this deal conflicts with Obama’s call for a world free of nuclear weapons, which further reinforces the past that Israel will remain outside the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements. This poses a myriad of dangers for future Arab generations.

A Historical Decision

Finally, the agreement sends a clear message to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding that its last resolution demanding that Israel’s nuclear facilities submit to international inspection will remain non-enforceable.

In what was considered to be the first diplomatic Arab accomplishment since 1991, the IAEA issued a resolution on September 19 calling on Israel to accept the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to submit its entire nuclear program to full IAEA inspection.

In the resolution adopted by the general conference of the IAEA, member states expressed concern about Israel’s nuclear weapons.

The draft resolution was submitted by the Arab group, requesting Israel’s nuclear installations be placed under international inspection. Following a flurry of diplomatic activity, the resolution was adopted by the agency with 49 consenting members, mostly from the developing world, and 45 opposing countries, amongst them member states in the EU and the U.S.

Although this resolution renewed Arab hopes in successfully pressing Israel to subject its nuclear installations to international scrutiny, Obama had a different view. Instead of punishing Israel for its refusal to freeze settlement activity, while hindering peace in the region, he offered Tel Aviv a nuclear present it hadn’t dreamt of. In effect, this will compel other Western countries to compete in helping Tel Aviv on the nuclear front, even if it conflicts with non-proliferation treaties and threatens to ignite a nuclear arms race in the Middle East as a whole.

It is noteworthy to know that Israel is the only country in the region that didn’t sign the NPT. It is widely believed to have between 200-400 nuclear bombs. This is a belief that is neither confirmed nor denied by Israel.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced last year that Tel Aviv possessed over 150 nuclear weapons; an unprecedented announcement of its kind by a U.S. president.

Although Washington never hesitated once to provide all forms of military support to Israel, this is the first time a nuclear agreement between both sides is disclosed, thus confirming that Obama will not be an improvement over his predecessor George W. Bush.