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Thursday, May 06, 2010

 

Increasingly Isolated Israel, Abandoned and Betrayed by Obama, Ignoring International Pressure Over Presumed Atomic Arsenal

Israeli leaders are ignoring pressure to join the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, asreported here.

The United States is playing a key role in the campaign.

China Confidential has been reporting for over a year that the U.S., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and other countries had decided to focus attention on Israel's presumed nuclear deterrent. On April 9, 2009, for example, China Confidential said: 

U.S. President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear-free world, which ironically coincided with North Korea's defiant and illegal ballistic missile test, was aimed neither at nuclear-armed North Korea nor at its nuclear-arming ally, Iran, but at a courageous, democratically governed, American ally--Israel--whose continued existence may well depend on having both nuclear arms and the political will to use them in order to prevent a second Holocaust.

Obama intends to focus attention on Israel's nuclear deterrent in an attempt to appease Iran while also currying favor with Saudi Arabia, which is competing with Iran for influence over Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization that has become an Iranian proxy and is clearly committed to Israel's destruction. The Saudi King (before whom Obama bowed, deeply and submissively, when the two men met last week at the G20 summit in London) believes that Israel's military power--including its presumed arsenal of nuclear missiles--is the major source of instability in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia's English-language daily newspaper, Arab News, subsequently stated:

The Obama administration may be about to rewrite a decades-old bipartisan American policy on Israel’s nuclear arsenal.

Democratic and Republican presidents previously have refused to pressure Israel to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but President Barack Obama is shaking things up.

The first hint of this change came in Prague on April 5, when Obama outlined his vision for addressing the threat presented by the proliferation of nuclear arms and how the United States could contribute to the ultimate goal of reducing the number of these weapons to zero. Then this week, Assistant US Secretary Rose Gottemoeller, the top US negotiator and head of the US delegation at the UN meeting on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), on Tuesday called for those who have refused to join the NPT to sign the nuclear pact.

Click here to continue reading the 2009 Saudi article. Bear in mind that the U.S. until Obama protected Israel's nuclear program for 40 years.

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Gold Futures Top $1,200 an Ounce

In line with the China Confidential forecast, gold futures today breached the psychologically important $1,200-an-ounce barrier, as reported here.

To term gold a haven--a hedge against inflation--is to understate its importance. Gold is the alternative global currency--the anticurrency. Gold is money. 

A new age of commodities is dawning. 

Crises in food and energy--and the coming conflict with Iran--will send oil and other commodity prices soaring.