If Israel and the United States somehow seized or broke-in and stole information from the UNO City's IAEA as Iran claimed, information that aided in assassinating Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, it would not be surprising. For years, both the U.S. and Israel have justified breaching the law and breaking into other countries for the greater good, or better yet, for their greater good. Two incidences among dozens come to mind.
At the turn of the 20th Century, a major disagreement existed concerning the location of a Jewish state. Since some European Jews and Zionists favored the establishment of a Jewish-Israeli state in Palestine, during WWI they lobbied Britain to develop the Balfour Declaration favoring a national homeland for the Jewish people within Palestine. Initially, the indigenous Arab and Palestinian population welcomed Jews as refugees.
Overtime some Palestinians and Arabs viewed the arrival of more Jews as a threat to security and to their native lands. To justify the creation of Israel, Zionist leaders convinced the British government that Palestine was a "land without people," an invented state. WWII and the Holocaust increased Jewish immigration to Palestine which in turn provoked clashes with the local Palestinian and Arab population.
With British and U.S. imperialist interests on the side of Jews and Zionists, much of Palestine was eventually broken into, its land seized. Just as troubling was the United Nations recommendation that a majority of Palestine would belong to Israel and the Jews, which constituted only 30 percent of the population. Through several wars with the Arabs and Palestinians, the new state of Israel justified expansionism and occupations.
The U.S. is also known for its break-ins and land seizures by its military and corporations in dozens of places around the world. In the 1950's, not only did the U.S. break-in and seize Iran and Guatemala, but it toppled numerous governments around the world, propping-up its own puppet dictators. The 1960's witnessed the U.S. charging into Vietnam, preventing democratic elections, and even assassinating a handpicked ruler.
The breaking and entering into Vietnam, followed by a lengthy and bloody occupation that cost the lives of 4 million Vietnamese and over 50,000 U.S. troops, also helped lead to Watergate and the downfall of President Richard M. Nixon. Hostility to government and business and the exposure of enormous atrocities being committed by U.S. troops caused an already paranoid president to become obsessed with secrecy and vengeance.
President Nixon ordered his security officer and former CIA agents, one who led a failed break-in of Cuba in 1961, to raid the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate apartment complex of Washington, DC. It was another criminal action similar to others he had repeated for years, like wiretapping government staff and reporters and infiltrating anti-war groups and intimidating (assassinating?) their members.
Due to an unseen arrest and cooperation by the "plumbers," the criminal gang, the U.S. discovered that President Nixon's Attorney General controlled a secret fund worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to be used against the Democratic party. While Gulf Oil Corporation and others had made illegal contributions running into millions of dollars, President Nixon himself had illegally siphoned $10 million for his home.
Testimony revealed plans were made to physically attack certain anti-war activists and Daniel Ellsberg who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers. It was disclosed that for over one year, 1969-1970, the U.S. had engaged in a secret, massive bombing of Cambodia. The secret break-in into Cambodia killed thousands of innocent civilians and helped lead to the rise of Pol Pot and his killing fields.(1)
Israel and the U.S. continue to break-in and raid other nations. Supplied with U.S. firepower, Israel has repeatedly invaded Palestinian lands leading to thousands of deaths and 40,000 injuries. It has used tortuous tactics widely condemned by many. Assassinations, demolition of homes and foods, and thousands of false imprisonments, over 500 children, have occurred. More than 300 schools have been destroyed.(2)
Much like Palestinegate, the U.S. broke into Afghanistan, even though the Taliban was willing to arrest Osama bin Laden and try him. The U.S. used deceit and forged documents and disregarded international laws to preemptively raid and occupy Iraq. Afghanistangate and Iraqgate have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and millions of refugees. So too has Yemengate, Libyagate and Pakistangate.
To insure safe and peaceful use of nuclear energy, the International Atomic Agency (IAEA) was founded in 1957. Although it is independent of the UN, it still reports to the Security Council, the U.S. being one of its exclusive permanent members. The purpose of the agency was to create legally binding commitments between nations to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, even completely eliminating them.
The IAEA oversees "illegitimate" nations, or those not part of the 1970 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. It also monitors nations developing nuclear energies. The U.S. has used the IAEA and UN for its own nationalistic ambitions. While maintaining a massive nuclear arsenal, it sometimes misreported and manipulated IAEA findings. Perhaps UNOgate has been occurring for quite some time.
How legitimate is the IAEA, and how illegitimate is the U.S., since it continues to stockpile nuclear weaponry aimed at other nations like Iran? Why can Israel sustain a nuclear arsenal and the "Sampson Option," or threat of nuclear annihilation, but other nations cannot develop nuclear energies? The "balance of terror" has shifted to the U.S. and Israel. Are they imposing their own atomic pathologies onto Iran?
Therefore, it is little wonder that Iran stated there was a high suspicion Israel and the U.S., along with their psychological and physical terrorist circles, used the intelligence obtained from the IAEA, regarding interviews with several of Iran's nuclear energy scientists, for the purpose of assassinating several Iranian nuclear scientists. Security and peace can never rest on a balance of terror and break-ins and preemptive raids.
Both the U.S. and Israel deny such charges. But Iran raises an important question by asking "what kind of justice and rule of law is the UN and its Security Council really upholding by saying nothing about attacks against and the assassinations of Iran's scientists." If Israel or the U.S. did break-in and seize confidential information, or UNOgate, it is merely another example of dozens of Palestiniangates and Watergates.
Be warned that fear and paranoia at either end of a nuclear weapon pushes the button.
Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)
(Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501: An A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and Action, Some Nations Above God: 52 Weekly Reflections On Modern-Day Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of John's Apocalyptic Vision, and The Other Side Of Christianity: Reflections on Faith, Politics, Spirituality, History, and Peace. He is a correspondent for
www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.)
(1) See Zinn, Howard and a People's History of the United States, 1492-Present. He details dozens of corporation and military crimes committed by the Nixon Administration. New York, New York: Harper Perennial Press, 1995., p. 531, 532.
(2) Horvitz, Leslie Alan and Christopher Catherwood. Encyclopedia Of War Crimes And Genocide. New York, New York: Facts on File, Inc., 2006., p. 341.
Source: http://article.wn.com/view/2012/01/24/From_Palestinegate_and_Watergate_to_UNOgate/
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