Opinion Editorials, November 2003, www.aljazeerah.info
Human Price of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Israeli daily aggression on the Palestinian people
Mission and meaning of Al-Jazeerah
Cities, localities, and tourist attractions
With Iran, US plays tough-guy
Gulf News
Gulf News, 23-11-2003
The US Administration may think it is "on a roll" in its fight against perceived unwelcome regimes, but it has yet to prove it is capable of completing what it has already undertaken in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, not content with causing chaos there, America turns its attention to Iran, claiming it has a nuclear capability, that is, the ability – or near ability – to make a nuclear bomb.
While Iran has been economical with the truth on this, the authority charged by the United Nations to verify such capability, the International Atomic Energy Association, IAEA, is content Iran does not possess a weapons programme. The IAEA concedes there is still more investigation to be done, but will not declare that Iran is not telling the truth and that there is, indeed, a nuclear programme being undertaken.
Unfortunately the American administration is not content with the statements issued by the IAEA and asserts that the IAEA's report is "questionable". Although the US appears to have backed down from its demand to impose UN sanctions on Iraq for non-compliance with the IAEA treaties, the aggressive attitude being adopted by the US is very reminiscent of the time when they hounded UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, discrediting the independent investigator's findings over Iraq.
The present head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei, who was also under fire alongside Blix, has called America's disbelief of its findings "disingenuous" and that the IAEA "reflects facts, as radar does, without partiality." It is possible, of course, that the US fails to understand what an impartial body is, since experience has shown us that its so-called impartiality over the Palestine-Israel question is very far from impartial. Maybe it is because of such a record, America comes to distrust all other impartial bodies.
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| Earth, a planet hungry for peace |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03). |
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