Mass Destruction Weapons!

“Nuclear Disarmament tops the conditions for the realization of world peace" Late President Hafez Assad declared on Sept. 24th, 1987, in a message to a Nuclear Disarmament conference, asserting that this very issue is linked closely to the cause of peace. " Humanity does need life prerequisites and progress; not means of destruction and elimination. Man does need food, medicine, housing, educational institutions, hospitals, means of transport and communication, means of agricultural development, does need every thing in protection of human civilization and its persistence” added the Late President blasting “Those who insist to produce nuclear weapons and threaten others by these nukes” as “the enemies of peace,” and as “ the enemies of continued life on the globe”.
On March, 8, 1990, the Late President declared “ The objective circumstances for elimination of weapons is the realization of peace”. Interviewed by the US “Washington Post” and “ News Week” on July 28th, 1991, the late president reiterated the region need as to rid the region from Mass Destruction Weapons, on top of which the nuclear ones wondering whether Israel stores were enough to contain the stockpiles of US weapons and ammunitions! ´” Israel is alone in the region which manufactures different types of weapons and of sophisticated missiles. It is Israel alone among the region countries which possesses nuclear weapons” “ Israel possesses the weapons existing in the United States, hence the same of these weapons exist in Israel” “Israel has chemical, germ, and nuclear weapons” stated the late president to Time Magazine on November, 12, 1992 calling for the elimination of Israeli MDW.
For his part, President Bashar Assad, in a message to Youth Conference in Algiers on August, 2001 stated “ Israel which rejected and still rejects to sign the Nonproliferation Treaty always threatens to use what the United States provides of weapons, and what it manufactures of MDW’s”. To Doha Conference on November 13, 2000, President Bashar stated “ the Israelis stockpile all Mass Destruction weapons, on top of which the nukes. Our Governments ask the concerned countries and bodies to clean these weapons, the reply comes through the bombarding of a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan”. Actually these very statements by Syria’s Leaders have been part and parcel of the Syrian principled and committed strategy of opting to peace, security, coexistence and stability in the region. Unfortunately, these stances went unheeded by many , including Israel, which has been capitalizing on every opportunity to increase its qualitative edge militarily on all the region countries. Racing against the tide of time, Israel since the 40’s of past Century opted for Samson’s Option. At the time, when most of Arabs and surroundings concluded peace agreements with Israel, and when the rest declared in Beirut’s Peace Initiative full preparedness for just peace, Israel has no justification whatsoever to adamantly persist in its Samson’s Option.
BBC2 recently aired a documentary about Israeli weapons of Mass Destruction presented by Olenka Frenkiel.The documentary commented: "Israel is outside chemical and biological weapons treaties “ The whole revelations in the said program, according to Internet sources, came about against the background of developments in the "Vanunu case". Mordechai Vanunu, known as Israel's nuclear whistleblower, was an engineer at Israel's nuclear bomb factory at Dimona, who leaked the secret story with photographs about Israel's nuclear capability, which were published in the Sunday Times in October, 1986. Avigdor Feldman, the lawyer of vanunu, told the programme: "The prosecutor said that if Vanunu were released, the Americans would probably leave Iraq and go after Israel and Israel's weapons" . When the program approached an engineer who was dying of cancer, he refused o be interviewed. Unaware that he was being filmed, he said: "I wanted to talk but I have been silenced. They came from intelligence and told me not to talk. They said I would be like Vanunu”. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimates that Israel has the world's fifth largest stockpile of nuclear warheads. In February 2000, Knesset member Issam Mahoul said Israel had '200 to 300' nuclear weapons; in August of that year, the Federation of American Scientists said that Israel could have produced 'at least 100 nuclear weapons, but probably not significantly more than 200'; the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates. 200. Other sources, including Jane's Intelligence Review, estimate between 400 and 500 thermonuclear and nuclear weapons.
According to scores of verified sources, the October 1992 crash an of El Al cargo plane in Amsterdam that caused at least 47 deaths and caused hundreds of immediate and subsequent mysterious illnesses led to the disclosure in 1998 that flight LY1862 was carrying chemicals including 50 gallons of dimethyl methylphosphonatep. The sources added that in 1955, Prime Minister Ben Gurion ordered the weaponisation and stockpiling of chemical weapons in case of a war with Egypt. Former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky claims that lethal tests have been performed on Arab prisoners. Chemical weapons in the 1982 war on Lebanon, including hydrogen cyanide, nerve gas and phosphorus shells; Discussing delivery systems, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists states that Israel's F-16 squadrons based at Nevatim and Ramon are the most likely carriers of nuclear warheads and that a small group of pilots has been trained for nuclear strikes. Israel's Jericho I and Jericho II missiles are nuclear-capable.
According to Islamic Association for Palestine, 1 February, 2003, an Israeli professor and military historian hinted that Israel could avenge the Holocaust by annihilating millions of Germans and other Europeans. Professor Martin Van Creveld said  "We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.".  "Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us". Should the World be taken down or upwards in the interest of every human every where! 

The world at large should by now capitalize on the Syrian recent draft resolution as to make the Middle East free from Mass Destruction weapons. The US envoy to the united Nations, Mr. Negroponte’s, whose country, the USA, has the most advanced and largest stockpiles of Nuclear and every Mass Destruction Weapons, recent statements to this effect are indeed encouraging, and so are those by other top US Officials, if the realization of just peace is to free the region from such lethal weapons. Hopefully, our region is soon to live in peace away from every means of destruction and killing. It is indeed a dream by the majority to have Late President, Hafez Assad’s call in 1987, at the opening of the 10th Mediterranean Games in Lattakia that “ We want the Mediterranean to be that of peace, and friendship, where ships of interaction among people would sail not planes of destruction and killing where Seagulls would fly over it” translated into reality on the ground. One can’t but to wonder whether such a human mission is impossible. It is indeed very easy to do so, once the other side is to be serious and honest in search for a permanent just and comprehensive in the region of Prophets: Moses, Christ and Mohammed.
 

By
Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim
Abdo88@ureach.com

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