Arabs Misbehave, Jews Get Punished
What's the best way to make the region more secure and teach Iran that nuclear saber-rattling doesn't pay? Force its mortal enemy to disarm:
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy published its fifth report last Friday... The report's authors recommend that Israel examine a proposal to cease the production of fissionable materials used for the development of nuclear weapons, on the assumption that all the other states in the region will do the same...
[I]t is a mistake to demand that Israel pay the price for an Iranian retreat from its military nuclear project, and in this way divert some of the international pressure on Iran to Israel as well.
The problems with forcing Israel to open up its nuclear facilities to international inspectors are too numerous to list. Suffice to say that the IAEA's inspection regime has the last group of human beings on the planet who don't believe Iran wants nukes, but they're more than willing to criticize Israel. But that's to be expected, given that it's a UN agency the personal of which reflect UN demographics.
The other major problem - at the risk of sounding too much like an ideologue - is that Israel struggles to exist within the international rule of law. When they sign treaties, they keep their obligations - which is why North Korea has no problem signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty and then cheating, but Israel stays out of the NPT because they know that they'd have to cheat if they signed on. So, just as Israel stays out of the International Criminal Court because they know that they'd be subjected to politicized prosecutions, so must they stay out of the NPT because they'd be subjected to politicized inspections.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy published its fifth report last Friday... The report's authors recommend that Israel examine a proposal to cease the production of fissionable materials used for the development of nuclear weapons, on the assumption that all the other states in the region will do the same...
[I]t is a mistake to demand that Israel pay the price for an Iranian retreat from its military nuclear project, and in this way divert some of the international pressure on Iran to Israel as well.
The problems with forcing Israel to open up its nuclear facilities to international inspectors are too numerous to list. Suffice to say that the IAEA's inspection regime has the last group of human beings on the planet who don't believe Iran wants nukes, but they're more than willing to criticize Israel. But that's to be expected, given that it's a UN agency the personal of which reflect UN demographics.
The other major problem - at the risk of sounding too much like an ideologue - is that Israel struggles to exist within the international rule of law. When they sign treaties, they keep their obligations - which is why North Korea has no problem signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty and then cheating, but Israel stays out of the NPT because they know that they'd have to cheat if they signed on. So, just as Israel stays out of the International Criminal Court because they know that they'd be subjected to politicized prosecutions, so must they stay out of the NPT because they'd be subjected to politicized inspections.
