Reuters. The Israeli government will seriously consider joining the international treaty banning chemical weapons after Syria said it would destroy its own toxic arsenal, President Shimon Peres said on Monday.
Israel remains one of just six countries in the world not to have joined the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention following Syria's move this month."I am sure our government will consider it seriously," Peres told reporters in The Hague, the Dutch city that is home to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which oversees the convention.As with its nuclear arsenal, Israel has never publicly admitted to having chemical weapons. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said this month that Israel would be ready to discuss the issue when there was peace in the Middle East.Peres' role as head of state is largely ceremonial but he is an influential figure on the world stage and was instrumental in turning Israel into an undeclared nuclear power in the 1960s. Under a joint Russian-U.S. proposal, Syria has committed to destroying its chemical weapons arsenal within nine months. It is believed to comprise around 1,000 metric tons of sarin, mustard and XV nerve agents.
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It certainly is time for Israel to ratify this treaty and stop using chemical weapons and destroy their chemical weapons stockpile.
Rain Of Fire is the name of a Human Rights Watch Report documenting Israels unlawful use of chemical weapons in Cast Lead, an operation in Gaza in which Israel ended the lives of 1391 Palestinians, mostly civilians, 344 of whom were children.
Israel needs to stop using chemical weapons to injure and kill in her Occupation of Palestine.
Israel has never used chemical weapons------
attempts to describe white phosphorus
as a "chemical weapon" are very much FAILED ISLAMO NAZI PIG SOPHISTRY.
Aside from their use by some small weird sects in the far east-----the only people in the
world to use chemical weapons have been ISA RESPECTERS who have used them
extensively ------most significantly the very nefarious NITROGEN MUSTARD GAS---developed in and used by Germany in world war II-----and passed on to islamo nazi pigs ---including such
notables as GAMEL ABDEL NASSER----and SADAAAM HUSSEIN. Nasser dropped the
stuff on small villages in Yemen in honor of isa/allah----during the civil war there------
it cause a slow and excrutiatingly painful death ---especially in children and has the property
of CLINGING in the environment ------the kind of thing isa respecters enjoy inflicting on
people
Remember the islamo nazi claim that WMD means atomic bombs-----
gee----I never interpreted WMD as atomic bombs-----to me the vast
storehouses of NITROGEN MUSTARD GAS----in Iraq (probably then
transferred to Syria) is quite nefarious enough to be called WMD
Sadaam also had nerve gas------atropine filled syringes are standard issue
to protect against isa-respecting filth in Israel. In fact the US also had stock
piles of atropine-------as part of the HOME LAND SECURITY (aka defense against
isa-respecting terrorism) program Fear not----in case of ISA RESPECT actions---
follow the directions given to you by local first responders
IN CASE OF NITROGEN MUSTARD ISA-RESPECTING fun-----follow instructions
carefully-------the stuff lingers----even on clothes
