There are four nuclear nations that are not signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. One of them is Israel. The other three are Pakistan, India, and North Korea. Of those three, North Korea has threatened its neighbors and enemies with nuclear weapons. North Korea has blown up nuclear weapons recently, and threatens to blow up more.
Pakistan refused to discount the first use of nuclear weapons during a standoff with India several years ago.
Pakistan is the nation that sold nuclear technology to North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and who knows how many other nations—and A.Q. Khan may very well be selling nuclear technology on the black market today.
In the meantime, the Iranian quest for nuclear weapons continues at speed. The world is seemingly unable to effect sanctions, stop Iran from getting the tech, stop Iran from enriching plutonium, or, frankly, unable to stop Iran at all.
So which nation gets the world focus? Israel, of course—the nation that has not threatened to use nuclear weapons, that is not responsible for selling nuclear technology to a rogue state, that is not threatening to wipe anyone off the map. But if the world could only force Israel into the NPT and then declare the Middle East a “nuclear-free zone”—well. That would get Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program.
That, at least, is the public statement of logic behind the drive against Israel. Privately, I’m quite sure that Israel’s enemies are trying to take away Israel’s greatest weapons of self-defense, while having no intention whatsoever of stopping their own drive towards attaining those very weapons.
The head of the IAEA is asking its 151 member nations to help figure out how to “persuade” Israel to join the treaty. The UN backed up this push with a statement affirming that the major powers want to see a ban on nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Clearly, the world intends to try to use Israel as a club to get Iran to stop its quest for a nuclear bomb.
And yet, there is absolutely no sign whatsoever that Iran will stop its quest for nukes. On the contrary, at every turn, Iran swears it will continue working towards “peaceful” nuclear power. Disarming Israel will accomplish the goal of disarming Israel, and that’s about it. Of course, Israel is not willing to be disarmed. And the world is not happy about that.
No way this ends well.
Guess what, Rest of the World? GOD agrees with Israel so just keep flapping your gums.
They go after Israel for the same reason police in Britain go after the homeowner who resisted the burglar rather than the criminals. It’s a lot easier and a lot safer to go after the law-abiding citizen than the criminal. It’s a lot safer to go after Israel than some Muslim country that mysteriously emits terrorists against the non-Muslim world. “Of course we in the government of Wackistan have nothing to do with that, nothing at all. Just because the terrorists trained on our soil and got support from our intel people is no indication that we had anything to do with their attack.”