{"id":2908,"date":"2015-05-24T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2020-01-04T04:59:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T09:59:09","slug":"us-kills-nuclear-free-mideast-conference-citing-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=2908","title":{"rendered":"US Kills Nuclear-Free Mideast Conference, Citing Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DISARMAMENT AND SECURITY .<\/p>\n

an article by Jason Ditz, Anti-War<\/a><\/p>\n

Four weeks of UN efforts <\/a> to get together a conference on a nuclear weapons ban in the Middle East ended in failure today, with the US spurning the deal on the conference, citing Israel.<\/p>\n

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Though the US initially backed the nuclear-free Middle East effort, they later realized Israel is the only nation in the region with such arms, and has since criticized the effort as unfair.<\/p>\n

Though US officials have been to Israel in recent days to try to get them to sign off on some vague notion<\/a> of an eventual nuclear-free Middle East, there was no progress, as Israel won\u2019t even publicly affirm their arsenal.<\/p>\n

After failing to get Israel to okay the deal, the US angrily blamed Egypt for the whole thing, saying they\u2019d \u201ccynically manipulated\u201d the process by bringing up Israel\u2019s arsenal at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(Question for this article: Can we abolish all nuclear weapons?<\/a> )<\/div>\n
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Readers’ comments are invited on this article and question. See below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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