Is the World Finally is Winning for Once?
There has been a seismic shift in international policy procedure and politics at this year's U.N.General Assembly. It almost appears as though the world collectively decided to stop F-ing around.
In less than a week, the two major problems poised to further destabilize a region of the world already living on life support has been fast tracked for rational and reasonable solutions.
With the Russians and their Chinese silent partners taking the lead, they've managed to create a window of opportunity to address a multitude of regional ills. First reaching a binding agreement with the Syrian government to surrender its stockpile of CWs for international disposal and secondly and just as importantly combining that effort to kick start historic dialog between Iran and its Western foes.
When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani insisted his country never intended to acquire WMD's of any kind this week, he too opened another window of opportunity to expand the international WMD conversation beyond Syria and Iran.
Addressing the United Nations forum on nuclear disarmament, an organization of mostly developing countries that has demanded for years Israel sign on to the landmark 1979 Non-Proliferation Treaty, Rouhani placed Israel in the uncomfortable position of looking like the last aggressor standing. Israel, the "Jewish state" is the only Mideast nation that has failed to do so.
In an effort to truly level the region's killing fields, President Rouhani went on to challenge the Israeli government to broaden the possibility for peace by requesting the Israelis to subject themselves to the same degree of scrutiny as all other nuclear armed nations. When contacted for comment, the Israelis went silent.
Has Rouhani Raised the Stakes?
But now that the door has been kicked open, is it finally time intelligent people can openly and rationally discuss Israel's stockpile of nuclear weapons. If the region is ever to be safe from a nuclear arms race, a nuclear arms accident or an intentional nuclear arms event, we have the perfect opportunity to throughly examine this issue now.
Considering the guaranteed military advantage the United States provides for Israel over its regional rivals, there is very little need to allow them to maintain menacing WMD's without any form of external monitoring. If the United States want to stem the hemorrhaging of its credibility as an honest broker, the Obama administration had better have that long overdue talk with their good friend, and it should happen soon than latter. The world won't wait much longer.
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