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By: Eileen Fleming
Stop Genocide, Free Palestine, End Occupation
Only in Solidarity do “we have it in our power to begin the world again.” -Tom Paine
On October 2, 2009, The Washington Times reported that “Obama agrees to keep Israel’s nukes secret [and] reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections.” [1]
Three “officials spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were discussing private conversations, said Mr. Obama pledged to maintain the agreement when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in May.
“Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which could require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs.
“The chief nuclear understanding was reached at a summit between President Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir that began on Sept. 25, 1969. Avner Cohen, author of “Israel and the Bomb” and the leading authority outside the Israeli government on the history of Israel’s nuclear program, said the accord amounts to “the United States passively accepting Israel’s nuclear weapons status as long as Israel does not unveil publicly its capability or test a weapon.”[Ibid]
In 2007, the Nixon library declassified a July 19, 1969, memo from Henry Kissinger, the national security adviser stating: “While we might ideally like to halt actual Israeli possession, what we really want at a minimum may be just to keep Israeli possession from becoming an established international fact.”
Another “leading authority” that “established [the] international fact” in 1986, was Mordechai Vanunu who told the truth and provided the proof of Israel’s seven story underground WMD Facility that can be viewed on You Tube:
Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D
Lets inspect Dimona
The Israeli and USA government lacked the imagination to comprehend that the truth cannot be shut up or buried “under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.“- Emile Zola
America’s blind allegiance to the Jewish State-and I use that term because as Vanunu said- “Israel is only a democracy if you are a Jew” has resulted in the equivalent of “don’t ask, don’t tell” but the truth is out there and “the truth will set you/US free.”-John 8:32
Silence is complicity and knowledge brings responsibility and if we truly “hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights…to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.” – The Declaration of Independence
We must rise up, for “Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends…I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The only trouble is they are not aware they can get it.”-John Lennon
Reading and disseminating information is all well and good; but the highest good is rising up and holding leaders to their promises for “words must mean something” as President Obama promised in Prague when he declared his administration’s goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
By Obama’s complicity he is colluding with Israel’s “secret” America’s efforts to bring into force the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, are doomed!
An anonymous Senate staffer admitted, that Obama’s failure to hold Israel to the same standard as Iran, “calls into question virtually every part of the president’s nonproliferation agenda. The president gave Israel an NPT treaty get out of jail free card.”
This is not a game of Monopoly we play, but it is the future of all the children of the world that is at stake!
For far too long, the American Government has failed to uphold the values that we the people of this land hold most dear; honesty, integrity, justice, accountability and the rule of law!
For those of US who love America and Israel and desire her Security, we comprehend that only by holding her to the same standards that we hold Iran can America’s and Israel’s stated goal of achieving a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction is even possible!
We the people are culpable and accountable for what our government does and does not!
Do Something: Remind the White House that honesty is always the best policy and demand that Israel must open up their WMD Facilities and sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Phone, fax and email the White House and insist that “words must mean something” and a nuclear free Middle East and World includes US and Israel too!
CONTACT President Obama:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
E-mail: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/v/contact/
Telephone:(202) 456-1414(202) 456-1111
Fax: (202) 456-2461
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Department of State
Washington, DC 20520
State Department Public Information Line:
(202) 647-6575
PHONE LINES are only open 9-5 PM EST.
Only in Solidarity do “we have it in our power to begin the world again.” -Tom Paine -
Eileen Fleming, A Feature Correspondent for The Palestine Telegraph and Arabisto.com
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
Author of “Keep Hope Alive” and “Memoirs of a Nice Irish American ‘Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory”
Producer “30 Minutes with Vanunu” and “13 Minutes with Vanunu”
Please visit the Engineers for Justice website and express your support and appreciation.
Gary
Engineers for Justice
Welcome to Engineers For Justice. We are a growing group of professional engineers in Canada who are deeply concerned with the current humanitarian crisis which has been quietly unfolding in Gaza for the last two years.
We, as Canadian citizens, are particularly troubled by the actions of our current conservative government with respect to its failure in protecting our country’s long standing tradition in championing international law and universal human rights.
The people of Gaza are currently living under an illegal, brutal and punitive siege by the state of Israel. The siege has been described by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter as having “brought death, destruction, pain and suffering to the people there” and that the “…international community must not ignore their cries for help.” As a fellowship of engineers from all races, beliefs and orientation, we do not identify ourselves as pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel, but pro-Justice.
International law, rooted in the Geneva Conventions, establishes a duty of care to civilan populations by all occupying powers, including Israel. A similar duty of care to civilian populations, or the public, is echoed in our own Engineering code of ethics, which is enshrined in the Professional Engineering Act, R.R.O. 1990, Regulation 941, Section 77 (Code of Ethics) and can be summarized by one basic yet paramount principle:
“A practioner shall regard the pracitioner’s duty to public welfare as paramount.”
This priniciple is viewed as an ethical duty, inspite of its legal enforceability by Canadian law. In other words, we as engineers identify this priniciple as paramount not only because it is a legal requirement in the practice of professional engineering, but also because it is the key priniciple which defines our ethics…in other words, it is just. Without this principle, our society would cease to function in a safe, secure and predictable manner.
The Fourth Geneva Convention, Section III provides a similar code of ethics, which all parties involved in armed conflict are bound to. This paramount principle was born out of the Nuremberg Trials, and paid with the blood of many men, including the lives of thousands of Canadian soldiers. Failure to abide by the Geneva Conventions is not only illegal under international law, failure to uphold its principles will ensure an unsafe, unsecure and unpredictable world, making the sacrifice in blood and treasure spent in World War II worthless. Nothing less than the ability to enforce and maintain world peace is at stake.
As such, we refuse to stand idly by while our current government refuses to acknowledge Israel’s obligations under international law to end the siege. By refusing to abide by and uphold international law on this specific matter, our government is complicit in inflicting unnecessary suffering on the Palestinian people living in Gaza in addition to causing permanent damage to the international system of law as a legitimate instrument in protecting the innocent and defenseless.
If you would like to participate in the effort to end the siege, please join our mailing list to receive updates and learn about future gatherings and events.
We refuse to stay silent as a matter of conscience.
“One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.” – Martin Luther King.
Eileen Fleming
Author’s Note:
I haven’t an ounce of Arab blood within me – but I have been to Israel/Palestine five times since June 2005 and have been reporting on the Christian Exodus from the Holy Land on http://www.wearewideawake.org/and as a correspondent for http://www.wearewideawake.org/and http://www.opednews.com./
October 6, 2009
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