Dimona now being monitored by the IAEA after Iranian strike

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is ‘monitoring’ the situation at the Dimona nuclear plant in Israel, after Iran hit the towns of Arad and Dimona, despite Israel refusing inspections and safeguards since 1969.

Non-proliferation treaty

Experts estimate that Israel possesses around 90 plutonium-based nuclear warheads. It has produced enough plutonium for between 100 and 200 weapons.

Israel produces the plutonium for its nuclear program at the Negev Nuclear Research Centre, also known as Dimona.

Additionally, Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This is an international agreement which was designed to:

prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, promote cooperation between states on peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and advance nuclear disarmament.

Only four other countries have not signed the NPT: India, North Korea, Pakistan, and South Sudan.

Israel also refuses inspections and IAEA safeguards on its nuclear activities.

Despite all of this, the world seems to have collectively agreed to ignore the fact that Israel has nukes.

Because noticing them, let alone inspecting Israel’s nuclear weapons facility, would of course be ‘antiseptic’.

Meanwhile, Israel has spent the last 30 years telling the world that Iran is only two weeks away from building Nukes.

Arad and Dimona

Now, Iran has bombed the towns of Arad and Dimona.

But Iran issued an evacuation notice a few days ago for the same area. By Israel’s standards, that makes it a valid target, and anyone who stayed in the area was probably a terrorist.

Israelis living near Dimona should have evacuated to the US, or Europe, or wherever the hell their second passport is from.

You know who can’t escape with their second passports? The native citizens of Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. We would need them to count back from 1 million — twice — while balancing on one leg in order to give them visas anyway.

Additionally, why were Israeli citizens living so close to an undeclared, uninspected nuclear site?

Sounds a little bit like, erm, human shields to me?

Then again, Israel’s conscription means that most Israeli citizens have served in the IDF. Again, by Israel’s standards — who hit military targets once they were home at night, while their families slept — that makes them valid targets.

The irony is that Israel has banged on and on for years about Iran’s nuclear enrichment site, which has been declared, regularly inspected, and has produced no weapons.

Meanwhile, they’re producing nukes and using Israeli citizens as human shields. Something they also accused Gaza of. Funny how all of the things Israel accused Gaza of are actually just their guilty conscience, or lack thereof.

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