The New Israel-ity

Now that the jig is up on Israel's nukes, the Obama administration wants Israel to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.  Israel on the other hand intends no such action.

Israel on Saturday rejected as "flawed and hypocritical" a declaration by signatories of a global anti-nuclear arms treaty that urged it to sign the pact and make its atomic facilities subject to U.N. inspections.

All 189 parties to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, including the United States, called on Friday in a declaration that singled out Israel for a conference in 2012 to discuss banning weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.

"As a non-signatory state of the NPT, Israel is not obligated by the decisions of this conference, which has no authority over Israel," the Israeli government said in an emailed statement.

"Given the distorted nature of this resolution, Israel will not be able to take part in its implementation," it said.

Kind of makes it hard to demand Iranian nuclear inspections when Israel refuses to do the same, does it not?  Israel refuses to join the NPT because Iran keeps playing inspection games.  Iran won't honor the NPT because Israel won't.  And Israel doesn't have to because America keeps giving Israel cover.

The Israeli statement said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would discuss the NPT declaration with President Barack Obama when the two leaders meet on Tuesday at the White House.

Obama welcomed agreements on a range of non-proliferation issues at the NPT meeting but said he would oppose efforts to isolate Israel and any actions to jeopardize its security.

Right.  Iran signs the NPT and admittedly is violating the terms.  As a result, Iran has been hit with sanctions.  Israel simply refuses to sign the damn thing at all...makes it easier to violate the terms that way.  Which one's the rogue nation, again?