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The timing could not have been worse. The International Atomic Energy Agency has just voted against a resolution, which would have expressed formal concern over Israel's nuclear arsenal, and urged them to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Unsurprisingly, sixty-one countries, including the United States and the entire member states of the European Union, voted against the resolution, while 43 countries, including Iran, Russia and China, voted in favor, and 33 states, including Brazil and India, abstained.
No longer concerned with their conscience, the United States and its NATO allies - nations that secretly sold Israel the material and expertise to make nuclear warheads - spent weeks drumming up opposition to the resolution. Strange enough, they said Israel could keep its nukes! They explained to the countries voting that the real problem in volatile Middle East was...