All the rage in the news today is the announcement that Iran has told the U.N. nuclear watchdog it has a second uranium enrichment plant under construction. It isn't really a secret and hasn't been. The world wants to tell them that they are in violation of the non-proliferation treaty.. Now we have caught them “red handed”. I agree with the fact that they have violated the rules of the NPT.

Obama has just given a speech to the world on nuclear weapons and the United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution from President Barack Obama strengthening international cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, and committing to collaborate toward a global community "without nuclear weapons.” Well that is all well and good. But I have a few questions on a related matter that seems to totally slip through the cracks.

Why has Israel declined to sign the NPT? Why does the world ignore this fact?

From Wikipedia:

….Israel is widely believed to possess weapons of mass destruction, and to be one of four nuclear-armed countries not recognized as a Nuclear Weapons State by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has recorded Israel as a country generally reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities, and an offensive biological warfare program. Officially Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing nuclear weapons….

Now Israel is making noise that they may attack Iran unilaterally and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the U.N to take action against them. If they do take action on their own you know who will be blamed. Not the Israelis, we will.

My opinion (and I am not alone) Israel is a rouge nation and we should stop financing their bad behavior at the tune of $114 billion not to mention $30 billion in military aid to them. If we hand the bully on the playground the stick he hits the others with, are we not as guilty as he is?

Addendum:

So here we are giving Iran alot of grief, understandably;y.. But what of India spurning Obama’s NPT call? So we have Israel, India and Pakistan all refusing to join the rest of the world. At least Iran and North Korea have joined the club even if they don't always play by the rules... But then some say neither do we.