UN Moves to Sanction Rogue Nuclear Program

In a move that was widely expected, the UN, with key US backing, moved to impose a regime of sanctions against the Middle East’s largest uninspected and unregulated nuclear arms program. In announcing the Organization’s harsh, but clearly targeted measures, Secretary General Ban Ki Moon stated: “It is time that Israel join the community of law-abiding nations sign on to the protocols of the NPT (Nuclear Proliferation Treaty) as soon as possible, something its regional neighbor Iran did several decades ago (1968). The program of inspections carried out in Iran under the NPT have”, he explained, “effectively prevented the spread of nuclear weapons to the Islamic Republic. These are not merely the assertions my office or the IAEA and its Nobel Prize winning director, Mohammed El-Baradei, but the official position of the American CIA”

Israel, on the other hand, is believed to possess at least 75 to 100 nuclear warheads able to be delivered in various modalities (plane, rocket and submarine). It has never officially acknowledged the existence of the program, let alone consented to a regime of international inspection. Moon continued, “We view the continued Israeli clamoring for action against Iran to be strange in the extreme given its own four-decade flouting of the inspections regime. Indeed, when we consider that during this same period, Israel, which subscribes to a two-tiered, ethnically-based scheme of citizenship that has long been rendered extinct in all other nations calling themselves democracies, has carried out unprovoked military assaults its regional neighbors on at least four occasions (Egypt 1973, Libya 1981, Lebanon 1982, Lebanon 2006) during that same period, the demands become nearly comic in their audacity. And this, of course, does not include the country’s six-decade campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people which culminated in last winter’s month-long massacre in the Gaza strip”.


When asked to respond to Secretary Moon’s statement, Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “As you can see, anti-semitism is alive and well in the world and at the UN”. When pressed by a young pool reporter still unfamiliar with the rules on official assertions never to be challenged to explain exactly what part of secretary Moon’s statement was untrue or slanderous, he replied, “No comment” and walked away.