The United Nations General Assembly First Committee, which deals with disarmament and international security issues, called on Israel to get rid of all its atomic weapons and place its nuclear sites under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency in a 152 to 5 vote.
Five countries – Canada, Israel, Micronesia, Palau and the United States – opposed the resolution on Friday over the “risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.” Twenty-four other countries abstained, including members of the European Union.
The resolution, submitted by Egypt, was sponsored by the Palestinian Authority and 19 countries, including Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.
Egypt’s text focuses on Israel as one of the nine countries believed to possess nuclear weapons, which the Jewish state has never officially acknowledged.
The resolution notes that Israel is the only country in the Middle East and one of the few among the 193 UN member states not to have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
It further calls on the Jewish state “to accede to the Treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons, and to place all of its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full-scope Agency safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all states in the region and as a step towards strengthening peace and security.”
In a debate on the issue earlier this month, Israeli envoy to the UN Michal Maayan said the NPT is only relevant as long as it is respected and is not a remedy for the “unique security challenges” of the Middle East.
“Four out of five cases of serious violations of the NPT have occurred in the Middle East since it came into force,” she explained, referring to Iran’s illicit nuclear program and undeclared nuclear activities in Syria.
Maayan also explained that it is impossible to talk about a regional security architecture around the nuclear issue in a situation where Middle Eastern countries do not recognize Israel’s right to exist, stressing that this position is “untenable.” – 24 News –
But Russia can keep theirs and Iran can continue to build theirs! What a relevant organization! I guess מגדל בבל had its effect on this prestigious disORGANIZATION
Is Kanye West the new president of the UN General Assembly?
The UN (aka United Natzis) is being influenced by piece haters and known war monger nations such as Iran, North Korea and China.
Israel should tell them to jump
How did that work out for the Ukraine? Problem is if some naive liberal Israeli becomes prime minister, he may cave.
yeh sure – let Iran have it, North Korea has it, but Israel no – MR. UN – feif dich un…………….
this resolution sounds like a good joke.
I find it comforting that the UN is dealing with serious worldwide issues. Because Russian nuclear weapons are not at all a threat to world peace, only Israel’s weaponry presents a problem. China is also no threat to anyone, because their leader’s ambitions are only to unite the world in peace and harmony. But Israel has no such desirable ambitions.
And North Korea is a peace-loving nation, and is governed by an obviously peace-pursuing magnanimous leader, but Israel’s leadership is erratic and dangerous. And Iran needs nuclear weapons to protect itself from all the warring factions surrounding it, but Israel is surrounded by only peace-loving nations.
And, I might add, the US is managed by a doddering old fool, so their nuclear weapons are not any threat to the world. Unless that old demented retard mistakes the red button for the one that you press when you’ve fallen and can’t get up…
Morons…
And russsia?
And nothing about the killing of its own citizens in Somalia?!
HM I couldn’t stop laughing after reading your line about the buttons. Hilarious.
Thank you. Only old folks like us (or if you have old folks of your own lol) will get that line!
Thank you. Only old folks like us (or if you have old folks of your own lol) will get that line!
I generally don’t quote Ben Gurion – he is not one of my heroes – but one of the smart things he did say is “Um-Shmum” (The UN in Hebrew = אום)
Then as now, the nations of the UN are united to bash Israel. So who cares what they say?
As Rav Yaakov Kaminetsky zatza”l said, the UN was created just so that the anti-Semitism of the world will be officially documented.
No problem. We’ll package 50% of it this week and ship direct to the inspectors in Iran.