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David M. Weinberg

GUARANTEEING Israel’s Security? Women’s Learning Initiative

hen it comes to guaranteeing All of which also explains why Israel lied about its nuclear weapons effort,
Israeli security, the limitations must continue to take the offensive and that the effort is merely mothballed,
W – indeed, the uselessness and against Iran’s nuclear program, without at best.
even venality of international institutions reliance on international inspectors. UN
– are painfully obvious. forces, UN monitors, UN experts, UN International Atomic Energy Agency
diplomats, and even (some) EU and US chief Yukiya Amano should have acted
There is a long and sordid history in diplomats simply cannot be relied upon with alacrity and moved in to capture
which the UN and other international to rigorously rein-in the ambitions of the remaining documents. But nada.
institutions have abandoned Israel, Iran and other bad actors in the region. Nothing. The IAEA hasn’t even asked to
beginning with the UN’s failure to visit the site. Amano has done absolutely
uphold Israel’s right of free passage Under the terms of the P5+1 agreement nothing to follow-up expeditiously and
through the Straits of Tiran when with the Ayatollahs (known as the capture Iran red-handed – before it
Egypt’s President Nasser closed them JCPOA), negotiated mainly by the covers its tracks.
in 1967 and the swift departure of UN Obama administration, UN inspectors
forces in Sinai when Nasser demanded it were given the right only to “coordinate” Netanyahu also exposed the existence
so he could attack Israel. their visits to suspect Iranian sites, “in of a secret atomic warehouse in the
consultation between Iran and the world Turkuzahbad district of Tehran with
Similarly, the Multinational Force and powers.” Worse still, Iran was given the nuclear equipment and material.
Observers (MFO) in Sinai has failed right to deny and challenge UN requests Netanyahu urged the IAEA to
completely to prevent the incursion to send inspectors to suspicious sites. immediately send inspectors to the
of Al Qaeda and ISIS into the now- This allows Teheran time to cover up site with Geiger counters. But Amano
Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, or prevent any sign of non-compliance with its poured cold water on the prime
attacks against Egyptians and Israelis. commitments. minister’s urgent warnings, and managed
UN forces on the Golan (UNDOF) only to find time to spar publicly with
mostly fled several years ago when the Then-US Secretary of State John Kerry Netanyahu.
Syrian civil war heated up and Israel called this “managed access,” which is
could no longer sufficiently protect a weak-kneed euphemism for nowhere, Netanyahu also has revealed Hezbollah’s
them. no-time inspections. secret sites for building and storing
precision-guided missiles in and around
UNRWA perpetuates Palestinian dreams Since then, of course, Iran has stymied Beirut’s international airport. But the
of overwhelming Israel with returning access by international inspectors to UN’s peacekeeping force in Lebanon,
refugees and has allowed its facilities to military and nuclear sites, especially UNIFIL, has been silent about this – as
be overrun by Hamas as weapons depots the Parchin military base, where Iran it has been throughout the past 12 years
and firing grounds. In the meantime, clearly was experimenting with nuclear of Hezbollah’s military build-up ever
UNESCO has passed several resolutions weapons production. since the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
denying Jewish history in Jerusalem
(essentially, declaring Zionism false and In September, the head of UN’s nuclear David Ben-Gurion once derisively
illegitimate), and the UNCHR regularly watchdog agency refused to take at dismissed the UN as “Oom shmoom” –
brands Israeli “practices in the occupied face value evidence presented by Prime meaning, irrelevant. He was wrong. It is
territories” as war crimes. Minister Netanyahu about secret atomic maleficent.
archives and warehouses in Tehran.
All of which explains why Israel is never Recall that Israel revealed the existence David M. Weinberg is the Vice
going to entrust its security to any type of Iran’s nuclear archive, and in a heroic President of the Jerusalem Institute
of international troop force, as has been Mossad operation that will yet be the for Strategic Studies
repeatedly and perniciously proposed by stuff of movies, heisted perhaps a third
European and American negotiators seeking of the documents; documents that www.davidmweinberg.com
Israeli withdrawals from Judea and Samaria. unquestionably prove that Iran serially www.jiss.org.il

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