Obama must press Israel to stop making nukes - US study

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By Stan Goodenough
November 17, 2008

After his inauguration next January, President Barack Obama must turn the screws on Israel to stop producing the nuclear weapons that help keep the Middle East's multiple and massive Muslim states from attacking the lone and little Jewish one.

This is the recommendation in a report recently published by the Institute for Science and International Security even as Iran - a belligerent, Mullah-run regime unlike the freedom-loving Jewish democracy - frequently calls for the destruction of Israel while pursuing nuclear weapons of its own.

"The Obama administration should make a key priority of persuading Israel to join the negotiations for a universal, verified treaty that bans the production of plutonium and highly enriched uranium for nuclear explosives," the institute argued, according to Ha'aretz.

"As an interim step, the United States should press Israel to suspend any production of fissile material for nuclear weapons."

Headed by experts on nuclear weapons and the prevention of nuclear proliferation, the institute chastised the Bush administration's policy of seeking a cutoff treaty that does not include verification.

That was a "mistake" which the incoming administration "needs to verify."

The recommendations follow years of Arab efforts - led by Egypt - to get the international community to be "even-handed" and take a stand against Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal.

What is argued, in increasingly sympathetic ears - is that Israel is the aggressor and a threat to world peace. If belligerents like Iran's Ahmadinejad and Syria's Assad must be kept from acquiring nukes, then Israel must certainly be stopped too.

Ignored or rejected is Israel's assertion that, unlike the Arab states, the Jews' military is a defense force and not a war-making machine.

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