Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

 Three years ago Iraq was invaded for the alleged posession of WMDs. Since then, more than 655,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, its infrastructure ruined, its heritage destroyed, yet no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Or so we thought.

The WMDs have been finally discovered — in Israel.

After decades in which Israel has stuck to a doctrine of nuclear ambiguity, Mr Olmert let slip during an interview in Germany that Israel did indeed have weapons of mass destruction.

The leaders had argued that they would go to any lengths to prevent a rogue regime from possessing WMDs that routinely flouts international law, threatens its neighbors and abuses human rights at home. Let hope they invade soon.

But what about the EU? With its committment against proliferation of nuclear weapons and its tough stance on Iran, surely it must be demanding tough action now that the rogue Israeli regime has come clean on its posession of nuclear weapons, even if the fact is well known worldwide. Sanctions at least?

AFP Reports:

The Finnish presidency of the European Union called on Wednesday for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to explain his apparent admission that the Jewish state has nuclear weapons.

“I think that Mr Olmert must explain more fully what this information means,” Finnish Defence Minister Seppo Kaariainen said in German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.

Something tells me the failure of comprehension has nothing to do with the EU president’s language skills.

What about EU’s committment to nonproliferation. What tough measures do they have in mind?

“The EU will be watching very closely to see what reaction the Israeli explanation provokes.”