El Baradei Knows What’s Up
IAEA Chief El Baradei breaks it down for you clowns.
The Washington Post published Sunday an interview with Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. He is the top U.N. nuclear proliferation official, and one of the most respected Arab officials in the world (which is not saying much).
The interview is significant for what he says about Israel, even if he says it in indirect and implicit officialspeak kinds of ways. I feel you Mo, and I know you feel me too.
He points out the double standard in the world’s view on Iran’s technological progress. Other countries can have the means to develop nuclear weapons, and choose not to, such as Japan, to which the Post interviewer responds, “The Japanese government hasn’t said that its aim is to destroy the state of Israel.”
El Baradei’s answer to that is an interesting acknowledgement of the one-state solution:
There have been a lot of offensive statements, frankly, on the part of Iran, although from what I understand, Iran wants a one-state solution [to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] — not, as reported in the media, that Israel should be wiped off the map.
Naturally, the Post interviewer is concerned about the primacy of Jewish chauvinism in the holy land, and questions him, “And you know that one state means the end of Israel because there are more Palestinians than Jews.”
To which, El Baradei says “I’m not taking sides on that…” He than goes on to bridge to a different message, about the importance of working with moderates.
Israel is mentioned just one more time in the interview:
[WP]: People say you criticized Israel harshly for bombing the nuclear reactor in Syria — that you weren’t tough on Syria for building a nuclear reactor.
I have been very harsh on Israel because they violated the rules of international law on the use of unilateral force, and they did not provide us with the information before the bombing, which we could then easily have established whether Syria was building a nuclear reactor. To that extent, the blame is also shared with the U.S., who sat on the information for a year and six months after the bombing. Now we are doing our best to try to see what Syria was doing, but it’s like Iran. I cannot jump the gun and say Syria was building a nuclear facility because what we are doing now is trying to verify what was there.
This man is fighting the good fight credibly, I have to say. Even if he is sometimes accused of being a western hand puppet, I am a fan. Correct if I’m wrong. But he knows Zionist supremacy is the problem and hinted at it in this interview. Maybe after the next “peace process” fails, official Arabs will be able to speak their minds and say what we already know.
