UN Tells Israel to Renounce Nuclear Weapons

The world's focus continues to be on Israel DAILY!  What in the world are we going to do with the tiny little country that so many other nations simply can't tolerate?

Well, today the Arab nations led and overwhelmingly passed another resolution against Israel...this time in involves their nuclear weapons...which Israel has never claimed to have but everyone knows they do.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution Tuesday calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight.

The resolution, adopted in a 161-5 vote, noted that Israel is the only Middle Eastern country that is not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It called on Israel to "accede to that treaty without further delay, not to develop, produce test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, to renounce possession of nuclear weapons" and put its nuclear facilities under the safeguard of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.

The United States and Canada were among four countries that joined Israel in opposing the measure, while 18 countries abstained.

Israel is widely considered to possess nuclear arms but declines to confirm it.

The resolution, introduced by Egypt, echoed a similar Arab-backed effort that failed to gain approval in September at the Vienna-based IAEA. At the time, Israel criticized Arab countries for undermining dialogue by repeatedly singling out the Jewish state in international arenas. Israel's U.N. Mission did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.

The U.N. resolution, titled "The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East," pushed for the establishment of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East and lamented that U.S.-backed efforts to convene talks were abandoned in 2012.

Israel has long argued that a full Palestinian-Israeli peace plan must precede any creation of a Mideast zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The country also argues that Iran's alleged work on nuclear arms is the real regional threat. Iran denies pursuing such weapons.

General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding but carry moral weight because it is the only body where all 193 U.N. member states are represented.

U.S. representative Robert Wood, in voting against the resolution at the committee-level last month, said the measure "fails to meet the fundamental tests of fairness and balance. It confines itself to expressions of concern about the activities of a single country."

Wood said the U.S. will continue pushing a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, but he warned that such resolutions only undermine prospects for progress.

Here;  http://news.yahoo.com/un-assembly-calls-israel-join-nuclear-treaty-174032033.html

Israel will never give up it's nuclear weapons.  It is commonly known that they have the "Sampson Option" that they would use if they ever got to the point where they are being over run by their enemies.  If you remember the story of Sampson in the Bible, after the Philistines had put his eyes out and made him perform as a sideshow attraction, he asked the Lord for one more burst of strength and used that strength to push over the pillars he was chained to.  The building collapsed and killed Sampson but also some thousands of Philistines who were standing close by.

Also remember that Israel has never threatened the destruction of another nation on earth.  That can't be said for the Arabs and Persians...both of whom have had governments in place that have openly declared their desire for Israel to be destroyed...and all the Jews run into the sea.