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Israel tries to block Jordan's nuclear cooperation with others
Jun 24, 2009, 11:37 GMT
Amman - Israel is trying to block Jordan's bids to obtain nuclear technology for peaceful uses through agreements with the world's leading nuclear powers, the daily Alarab Alyawm reported Wednesday, citing a senior diplomat.
Over the past three years, Israel 'sought to obstruct the signing of any nuclear cooperation with Jordan,' the paper quoted an unnamed senior Jordanian diplomat as saying.
'Israeli agents were following closely the movements of the President of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), Khalid Touqan, and his discussions with concerned officials in other states of the world, and tried by all means to sway those countries not to sign cooperation agreements with Jordan,' the diplomat said.
The Israeli ambassador in Jordan violated all diplomatic conventions many times by trying to convince ambassadors of Western countries accredited to Jordan to block the signing of nuclear cooperation agreements with Jordan, the paper reported. 'The envoys confided this to their friends in Amman.'
On Sunday, Jordan inked a nuclear cooperation agreement with Britain, the latest of a series of such accords. Similar agreements had previously been signed with Canada, France, the United States, Russia, China and South Korea.
Jordan and other Arab countries have come to show increasing interest in possession of nuclear technology after Iran went adamantly ahead with its nuclear programme over the past few years.
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Israel costs the US Taxpayer more than $10 million per day,that we know of
$1.3 Trillion in US aid since 1973 according
to the Christian Science Monitor.
The US cannot tell Israel anything but Israel can dictate!
Go Arabs Go!
So sick of the virus(Israel) polluting everything close to it.
Burning Palestinian crops, Mossad agents toppling governments,
thieving on Palestinian land, nukes underground, stealing funds
from American taxpayers...
Someone, somehow, must stop Israel.
Imagine, if it hadn't been created in the first place, how much
peace there would be.
Well... I perosnally think a country is never defeat with strangth of other country... A country is always defeat with its own weaknesses....so all the countries should go for it... to ditter any sort of huge war in this world.....because a a balanced world is only way to save the world
Why the rest of the world allows Israel to continue with its racist murdering and thievery is beyond me. Who cares if an Israeli calls you an anti-semite, (and what's wrong with being an antisemite as long as you don't take your own prejudices out on them). Is my desire to avoid being 'branded' an antisemite worth the lives of countless Palestinian dead? What an expensive ego I must have.
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LegendaryBillJun 25th, 2009 - 15:15:22
Editor,
Exactly why should the only country that has actually
used atomic weapons on civilians get to decide who has them or
not?
Israel has hundreds of nuclear missiles. All of the other
Middle Eastern govts have return addresses, if you haven't
noticed. This whole 'problem' w/Iran has nothing to do with our
security, or our access to oil or even Israel's security. It's
all about Israel maintaining their nuclear monopoly in the ME
so they can continue to be brutal land-thieves with no risk to
themselves..They can continue slaughtering civilians and
expanding. Hopefully their comeuppance is coming.
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