Touchy, Touchy
The BBC reports that Israel-UN spat over Syria ‘bias’
The IAEA chief has reacted sharply to an Israeli accusation of bias in his attitude toward Syria, in a rare public controversy at the nuclear watchdog.
The body has been examining the case of an alleged Syrian nuclear arms facility that Israeli jets bombed in 2007.
Israel’s envoy told an IAEA debate on the subject in Vienna that Mohamed ElBaradei must “avoid political bias”.
The Egyptian hit back accusing Israel of breaking international law and he added bluntly “stop preaching to us”.
Mr ElBaradei said Israel’s attack on the facility had hampered his attempts to unearth the truth about the site.
The Syrians are getting better at handling things. When asked about traces of uranium at the site, they said it was the Israeli weapons. Of course the Israelis refuse to talk about their nuclear program and aren’t signatories to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty as both Syria and Iran are.
I don’t think the Israelis used actual nuclear weapons, but it wouldn’t be anything new for them to have “salted” the site with some graphite and uranium. It is also possible that depleted uranium was used in some of the weapons they used.
BTW, unprovoked attacks on other countries is a violation of international law, and if Israel had complained about the site to the IAEA, the Syrians would have had to allow an inspection under the NPT protocols.
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Memory going, Mr. Duff? The Iranians and North Koreans allowed the inspections until the Bush administration started threatening them. The Iranians still have regular inspections. The North Koreans didn’t go totally bonkers until the mental midgets in the White House decided to break previous agreements and include them in the “axis of evil”.
The Israelis are free to think whatever they want, but to claim the director of the IAEA is biased at UN meeting with no evidence, is incredibly stupid.
Read for comprehension – the Syrians claimed the Israelis salted the site. The Israeli record on false flag operations is well-known to the world, which is why the Syrian claim is taken seriously. It may also have gained strength if the IAEA didn’t find the North Korean markers on the uranium they found. You can determine sources of processed uranium based on those markers, and they probably requested samples from Israel for comparison.
I fully realize that you remain confused, but that is by your insistence that the world must abide by your preconceptions. The world isn’t swayed by ideology, only people are affected those distortions.