"Defense Minister Ehud Barak said
Wednesday that Israel would not be pressured into signing the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, stressing that unlike other countries, Israel had never threatened to destroy another nation.

There is no room to pressure Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Israel has never threatened to annihilate other nations and peoples, while today Iran, and also Syria, Libya and Iraq in the past, all of whom signed this treaty, have systematically violated its stipulations while explicitly threatening Israel's existence," Barak said ...."  read on

Unbelievable!!!

As expected, Obama is perfectly fine with that explanation.

btw. Iran, Syria, Libya and Iraq - all  signed this treaty and have done so in the past.

And it's more of an amplifyer than an adjective - good was the wrong definition.

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone -- the Vatican number two and Pope Benedict XVI's right-hand man -- said Monday that "many" psychologists and psychiatrists had demonstrated a link between homosexuality and paedophilia.

For the average American, what all this means is that of every dollar you send to the IRS, 53 cents will be going to pay for blowing stuff up, fattening the wallets of colonels admirals and generals, bloating the portfolios of investors in military industries, and of course funding the bonuses paid to executives of those companies, and the campaign chests and private expense accounts of the members of Congress who vote for these outlandish budgets. Your money will also be going to pay for the salaries and the bullets of those brave heroes over in Afghanistan who are executing kids, killing pregnant women (and then digging out the bullets and claiming they were stabbed by their families), and for the anti-personnel weapons that are creating legions of legless Afghani kids.

.....think about that 53% of your tax payment that is going to finance the most enormous war machine the world has ever known.
David Lindorff