Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
7 June
ISRAEL BOMBS IRAQ TO ENFORCE ITS NUCLEAR MONOPOLY
On this day in 1985, Israeli aircraft bombed the Osirak reactor in Iraq. Ten Iraqi soldiers and one French civilian were killed in the attack, which took place three weeks before Israeli elections. Prime Minister Begin said, "Every future Israeli prime minister will act, in similar circumstances, in the same way." Israel has a huge nuclear arsenal as well as large quantities of chemical and biological WMDs and refuses to negotiate with other countries in the Middle East to limit or ban nuclear weapons from the region.
قصفت إسرائيل العراق لفرض احتكارها النووي
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في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1985 ، قصفت الطائرات الأسرائيلية مفاعل أوزيراك في العراق، وقتل عشرة جنود عراقيين ومدني فرنسي في الهجوم الذي وقع قبل ثلاثة أسابيع من الأنتخابات الأسرائيلية. قال حينها رئيس الوزراء بيغن: "إن كل رئيس وزراء إسرائيلي مستقبلي سيعمل بنفس الطريقة في ظروف مماثلة". من الجدير بالذكران إسرائيل تمتلك ترسانة نووية ضخمة بالأضافة إلى كميات كبيرة من أسلحة الدمار الشامل الكيميائية والبيولوجية وهي ترفض التفاوض مع دول أخرى في الشرق الأوسط للحد من الأسلحة النووية أو حظرها من المنطقة.
Israel's nuclear arsenal
A nuclear-free Middle East is sabotaged by US double talk. The US has a huge nuclear arsenal and is closely allied to nuclear-armed Israel. That's a poor position for cajoling others to forswear these weapons...
But while all of Israel's Arab neighbours oppose Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, they don't accept Israel's arsenal, and are not prepared to nod and wink at it. The Obama administration learnt that the hard way during the UN's NPT review conference in May of 2010, where it had hoped to put pressure on Iran, with the help of Arab states. The administration's intensive lobbying, however, failed to restrain Egypt's Mubarak regime from instead pressing for a "nuclear-free Middle East". The Egyptians bluntly warned that Iran couldn't be confronted while turning a blind eye to Israel. "We don't think that there should be first-class countries that are acquiring nuclear weapons and second-class countries that are not," Egypt's UN ambassador, Maged Abdelaziz, said at the time. "We say that in order to be able to deal with the Iranian issue, you have to address the nuclear capabilities of Israel."
After the fall of the South African variant of apartheid, hitherto secret minutes revealed that Israel's Defence Minister, Shimon Peres, met with South African Defence Minister PW Botha and “offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime.”
Israel expressed its strong opposition to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The conference would take place in Helsinki toward the end of 2012, or early in 2013. Brig.Gen. (Res.) Shaul Horev, director of the Israeli Nuclear Energy Committee, who reports directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, immediately trashed the idea.
FYI When SPSC first published the cartoon above on Israel's nuclear arsenal, Scottish Zionists reported it to a Westminster Parliament Committee as 'anti-Semitic'.
The madness of these bogus allegations was further exemplified by the BBCs' allegations, quickly withdrawn in the face of video evidence, that a Zionist clown, Hoffman, had been insulted as a 'Jew', after someone shouted at him, "Do you really want to know?" "Do you" became "D'you..." Get it?