Drawing a distinction between Iran, which has violated provisions of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and Israel, which hasn't signed it, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said here on Monday that the latter has “made numerous overtures to try to have a peaceful resolution” to the situation in the Middle-East.
“Obviously, the United States believes that whatever differences one might have with the situation in the Middle-East, Israel has been defending itself for the past 60 years, and has made numerous overtures to try to have a peaceful resolution. It has thus far been unsuccessful in doing so,” she said.
Responding to a question on the U.S. pressing for sanctions on Iran on account of its nuclear programme, while taking no action against Israel, which is in violation of several United Nations resolutions, apart from not being a signatory to the NPT, Ms. Clinton quipped: “Well, I don't think we have convinced India to sign the NPT either.”
“It isn't the only country causing worry. We worry regarding nuclear weapons proliferating in some other countries,” Ms. Clinton said, adding that the biggest fear was that nuclear weapons may fall into the wrong hands.
At this moment in time, the “ principal threat is a nuclear-armed Iran,” she said, alleging that the country was a “state sponsor of terrorism.” She cited the recent attack on Israeli diplomats in Delhi, and a plot to kill the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S. — both allegedly planned by the Iranian government — as examples.
“The problems with Iran go far beyond this region,” she said, adding that the U.S. continues to press for a resolution, particularly on Palestinian issues which concern the U.S. too.
She added, that if put in Israel's position, with the “leaders of a country saying that they want to wipe you off a map, they want to destroy you, they want to end the presence of the Jewish people,” it would be worrying.
“Israel is very worried that if Iran were to get a nuclear weapon, then there might be some leaders in the future who might use it,” she said.
Keywords: India-U.S. ties, Hillary India visit, Iranian nuclear issue, NPT, nuclear supplies, Iranian oil imports, Israel
Hillary basically stated that it is okay for Israel to be in violation of the NNPT and sell nuclear weapons to places like South Africa because they are "good", but not okay for Iran to have peaceful uses of nuclear power even while they are fully in accord with NNPT because they are "bad." Note that Hillary never denied Israel has nuclear weapons.
The statement is funny and ironic coming from the state sec of the only country that has used an atomic weapon on another...twice...
Now she is going into technicalities about the conflict when she says
Israel's been "defending" itself. Israel, or more importantly, the
Israeli people comprise mostly of Europeans who immigrated to Israel
60 years ago and established their own state. Naturally, the people
will fight back, so "Israel defends"? Israel argues there was no
Palestine then. This same logic applies to the US position which supported Portugal against India w.r.t Goa. The Portugese stand was India as a country never existed before 1947 and so India cannot lay claim to a territory which Portugal has ruled for over 400 years. In a strange way this makes sense, but you can see it is a game whose rules the natives did not know when they were originally occupied - the meaning of what constitutes a "country".
I still firmly believe Israel is an illegal state, if it wants a place for jews, it must be with consensus of the local people.
USA interests are paramount, for the time being. The paranoia of a declining superpower, incapable of freeing itself from colonial thinking, is something we should all tread carefully around. I think most of us are. The NPT is just a mechanism to preserve US dominance. I think India is stepping around it quite nicely.
Do you think we are all convinced by the Lies told by Hilary Clinton ?
Why can't USA place sanctions on Israel for not respecting rights of Iran?
Why does USA trust Israel and not Iran?
What about killings of Iranian Scientists by Israel Mossad?
USA has to learn a lot about Asian thinking instead of being spoon feed by
Israel, and their other organizations.
Who asked USA to be police man od the world?
Yes Ms Clinton, Israel makes "overtures" for peace and then goes behind your back and attacks and kills people. But then it is different from Iran because...? Oh wait, because you said so! What hypocrisy!
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