Morsi condemns Israel war rhetoric against Iran, refusal to join NPT

[RFS_Br]

Morsi condemns Israel war rhetoric against Iran, refusal to join NPT

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has warned Israel over its saber-rattling against Iran and Tel Aviv’s obstructionism against the realization of a nuclear-free Middle East.


The Middle East "no longer tolerates" any country's refusal to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), "especially if this is coupled with irresponsible policies or arbitrary threats," Morsi said in his address at the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.

The Egyptian leader was making reference to Israel’s policy of ambiguity about its military nuclear activities, which has helped it procure the Mideast’s only nuclear arsenal.

Israel has recently stepped up its threats to strike Iran’s nuclear energy facilities, while the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute believes Tel Aviv possesses 300 to 400 nuclear warheads, 80 of which remain in high operational alert, that is, they are ready to fire.

Iran is a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), thus it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Morsi said the concept of a preemptive strike against a country must be confronted.

"The acceptance by the international community of the principle of pre-emptiveness or the attempt to legitimize it is in itself a serious matter and must be firmly confronted to avoid the prevalence of the law of the jungle," he stated.

The Egyptian president also referred to the continued occupation of Palestinian territories, and highlighted the Palestinian cause as “the first issue* which the world must exert all its efforts in resolving, on the basis of justice and dignity.”

Morsi criticized Israel’s refusal to abide by UN resolutions and condemned its continued settlement expansions on occupied Palestinian land as “disgraceful.”

"It is shameful that the free world accepts, regardless of the justifications provided, that a member of the international community continues to deny the rights of a nation that has been longing for decades for independence," he said.

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* I think it's interesting that Morsi spoke of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, not of the Syrian civil war, as the world's most important issue. I made a thread some time ago with an article by US analyst Immanuel Wallerstein about Morsi's foreign policy. Wallerstein says that Morsi recognizes that the Syrian conflict may not evolve decisively in the next months or years, and predicts that Egypt will thus try to push Palestine back to the forefront of the world agenda.

 

[Bhairava]

Muslim killing muslim by thousands = No problem. Non-muslim killing muslim once in a while = genocide/ethnic cleansing/you_name_it.

 

[RFS_Br]

Muslim killing muslim by thousands = No problem. Non-muslim killing muslim once in a while = genocide/ethnic cleansing/you_name_it.

You couldn't possibly have read the article in this very short time span. Or are you just that fast when it comes to licking the boots of your Israeli bosses?

Anyway, I think Morsi is a being a realist here. The Syrian civil war has apparently reached a stalemate: neither Assad nor the armed opposition can completely eliminate one another. And as we know, an intervention isn't coming. Besides, I think every external actor on each side of the issue has done all it could to bring about its desired outcome. Weapons smuggling, sanctions, sending in foreign troops, you name it. There isn't much anyone can do anymore; therefore, it makes sense to not allow Syria to absord all of the world's attention. And let's not forget this: in spite of all of the involvement of the likes of Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UK or France, the Syrian affair is fundamentally an internal issue, and it is no one foreign country's business to meddle in it or take position. And mind you, that Morsi -- he who's no friend of the Baathist regime in Syria -- is saying that Syria's isn't the world's most important issue, is very significant. As an opponent of Assad, it would be expected of him to play up the Syrian situation, if there really weren't more pressing issues where the world could, and should, play an important role.

And the I/P issue is much more important than you're giving it credit for. It may be quiet right now, but Palestine has the tendence to explode when people least expect it. No one saw either the First or the Second Intifada coming. It exploded just like that -- from mounting frustration of the Palestinians at their conditions: conditions that haven't improved much since the Second Intifada, as they still face dispossession, blockade, population transfer (that is, yes, ethnic cleansing), and now a major economic crisis. If the world refuses to pay attention to the area, it soon will be forced to. To prevent a dramatic increase in violence, it is necessary for the world to watch the area closely.

Moreover, it's very much necessary to also call attention, as Morsi did, to Israel's nuclear arsenal, for both political and moral reasons. As a nuclear power itself, Israel is in no position to campaign against Iran the way it is doing. And as a neighbor of Israel's, Egypt is very much interested in Israel's undeclared stockpile of nukes.

As for you, try to contribute with some other than these mindless Zionist talking points, this position that somewhere in the world there must always be a more important issue than the Palestinian one. If it weren't for Syria, no doubt some people would try to push some issue other than the Palestinian one to the top of the world's agenda -- famine in Africa, drug violence in Latin America, the land disputes in East Asia, anything with the potential to divert world attention from Israel's policies. Anyway, I doubt you and other people who resort to this argument, really care about "Muslims killing Muslims" -- what you care about, is divert attention from the acts of your favored allies.

 

[Bhairava]

You couldn't possibly have read the article in this very short time span. Or are you just that fast when it comes to licking the boots of your Israeli bosses?

I did not comment on the article - but on the three lines of your observation underneath that, which btw did not take me more than 30 seconds to read.

Second hardly anyone in this world - except the Muslims and the leftie anarchists - who btw comprise more than three-quarters of the world population, give two hoots to Palestine. So its hardly the world's most important problem. Water not coming in my tap is a bigger issue for me.

Thirdly, you rightly said, that hardly any non-Muslim cares for Muslim killing Muslims. Why woudn't it be when even Muslims dont care about that ?

Lastly leftie 'intellectuals' and Muslims, please stop this ridiculous attempt to take people on guilty trips of them being Jionist agents, imperialists, Joo supporters etc. It is getting boring. Every one in this world has a brain and each one can think,make opinion for himself. No one asked/needed you guys to think for them.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

OMG,
This is the tenth time Iranian trivial media outputs fabricate Mosris's speech, as soon as I found out that the source is Press-TV, I rushed to watch his speech, and as usual Iran has lied, he didn't even mention Iran at all, he was talking about developing countries right to develop peaceful nuclear capabilities, he pointed out as well that ME should be free of nuclear arms.

Can't be more pathetic than this.

 

[Bhairava]

^ Ah, there you go..Blue on Blue.

 

[RFS_Br]

I did not comment on the article - but on the three lines of your observation underneath that, which btw did not take me more than 30 seconds to read.

If that is so, then you should know that there actually is an argument to not make of Syria the world's top issue: namely, the fact that the situation there is not progressing for anyone's side and there isn't much anyone can, or perhaps even should, do about it.

Second hardly anyone in this world - except the Muslims and the leftie anarchists - who btw comprise more than three-quarters of the world population, give two hoots to Palestine.

Speak for yourself. I'm neither Muslim nor left-wing, yet I care about the Palestinian issue, and I know plenty of people in my situation who do as well. Perhaps in India it is popular to close your eyes to everything your allies do just because they're your allies -- at least, this is what I have concluded of the Indian bloggers on this forum -- but some of us don't believe political convenience should take a precedence over morality and justice; some of us care about justice everywhere. Anyway, it's funny that people who supposedly care nothing about the area -- you, for example -- are nonetheless so defensive towards those who, like Morsi, call attention to the conflict. Admit it, you do care about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: you feign indifference because you don't like people paying attention to it.

So its hardly the world's most important problem. Water not coming in my tap is a bigger issue for me.

Get off your computer, then. This forum is for people to discuss global political issues, not their petty personal problems.

Thirdly, you rightly said, that hardly any non-Muslim cares for Muslim killing Muslims.

Do you have reading problems? That wasn't at all what I said. What I said is that some people, like you, feign concern about Syria because you don't like to see some other issues being brought to the forefront of world discussion.

Why woudn't it be when even Muslims dont care about that ?

I think there are plenty of people in the Muslim world watching the Syrian situation closely. Please, enough with the canards and with the hasty and lazy generalizations. All you're doing is make yourself look like a dumb bigot.

Lastly leftie 'intellectuals' and Muslims, please stop this ridiculous attempt to take people on guilty trips of them being Jionist agents, imperialists, Joo supporters etc. It is getting boring. Every one in this world has a brain and each one can think. No one asked/needed you guys to think for them.

Blablabla. I can also ask of you to not reduce the pro-Palestinian side as one important only to "lefties" and "Muslims", as if that somehow refutes the weight given to the conflict. Everyone in this world has a brain and each one can think. No one asked/needed you guys to think for them, and people can take their positions even if they don't belong in the groups that you mention.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

I can't believe Iranian regime has reached this very last point of insolence, Iran has fabricated many speeches and articles belong to Egyptian officials just to pretend that it has an excellent relationship with Egypt. Only psychos do such base things.

Are Iranians ok with being disregarded like this with false news?

@RFS_Br
Plz neglect that Indian.

 

[RFS_Br]

OMG,
This is the tenth time Iranian trivial media outputs fabricate Mosris's speech, as soon as I found out that the source is Press-TV, I rushed to watch his speech, and as usual Iran has lied, he didn't even mention Iran at all, he was talking about developing countries right to develop peaceful nuclear capabilities, he pointed out as well that ME should be free of nuclear arms.

Can't be more pathetic than this.

PressTV doesn't say that Morsi directly mentioned Iran. It states that Morsi, like you said, argued that countries shouldn't have their nuclear rights removed and that pre-emptive war is no way to deal with any one world issue. Did he really say that? If so, then there's no flaw in the PressTV article. At least it was more relevant than the Western articles about his speech. All the western articles did was mention his stated position on freedom of speech and his refusal to call Israel by its name. I mean, is that really what is of interest to an international audience?

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

PressTV doesn't say that Morsi directly mentioned Iran. It states that Morsi, like you said, argued that countries shouldn't have their nuclear rights removed and that pre-emptive war is no way to deal with any one world issue. Did he really say that? If so, then there's no flaw in the PressTV article. At least it was more relevant than the Western articles about his speech. All the western articles did was mention his stated position on freedom of speech and his refusal to call Israel by its name. I mean, is that really what is of interest to an international audience?

Let's see...

Fabricated input is colored:

Morsi condemns Israel war rhetoric against Iran, refusal to join NPT

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has warned Israel over its saber-rattling against Iran and Tel Aviv’s obstructionism against the realization of a nuclear-free Middle East.


The Middle East "no longer tolerates" any country's refusal to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), "especially if this is coupled with irresponsible policies or arbitrary threats," Morsi said in his address at the 67th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.

The Egyptian leader was making reference to Israel’s policy of ambiguity about its military nuclear activities, which has helped it procure the Mideast’s only nuclear arsenal.

Israel has recently stepped up its threats to strike Iran’s nuclear energy facilities, while the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute believes Tel Aviv possesses 300 to 400 nuclear warheads, 80 of which remain in high operational alert, that is, they are ready to fire.

Iran is a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), thus it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Morsi said the concept of a preemptive strike against a country must be confronted.

"The acceptance by the international community of the principle of pre-emptiveness or the attempt to legitimize it is in itself a serious matter and must be firmly confronted to avoid the prevalence of the law of the jungle," he stated.

The Egyptian president also referred to the continued occupation of Palestinian territories, and highlighted the Palestinian cause as “the first issue which the world must exert all its efforts in resolving, on the basis of justice and dignity.”

Morsi criticized Israel’s refusal to abide by UN resolutions and condemned its continued settlement expansions on occupied Palestinian land as “disgraceful.”

"It is shameful that the free world accepts, regardless of the justifications provided, that a member of the international community continues to deny the rights of a nation that has been longing for decades for independence," he said.

PressTV - Morsi condemns Israel war rhetoric against Iran, refusal to join NPT

 

[Mosamania]

If you know Arabic. Read the article, and then watch the speech.... You are bound to facepalm.....

Seriously who does Iranian media keep doing that?? Why do they keep fabricating what he says?

 

[RFS_Br]

The Financial Times has an article that pretty much echoes PressTV's. Morsi didn't directly mention Israel or Iran, true, but some of the stuff he said could only be understood in the context of the issues standing between those two countries. For instance, he did speak out against both intervention in Syria and pre-emptive attacks -- by which I think he could only mean a war on Iran over its nuclear programme. That part was not a fabrication, as you said. At least I don't know why the FT, which has a very different editorial line from PressTV's, would tamper with the text the same way the Iranian media supposedly did.

Morsi uses UN speech to attack Israel

Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s new president, on Wednesday used his first address to the UN General Assembly to launch a stinging attack on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

(...)

However, he said he was opposed to foreign military intervention to end the [Syrian] conflict, saying that Egypt was “committed to pursue the sincere efforts it has been exerting to put an end to the catastrophe in Syria within an Arab, regional and international framework”.

Insisting it was “shameful” that UN resolutions on the issue had never been enforced, he added: “The fruits of dignity and freedom must not remain far from the Palestinian people.”
Without mentioning Israel by name, Mr Morsi called for “an end to the colonialism and the settlements and changes to the identity of occupied Jerusalem”.

Mr Morsi also called for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East – an indirect criticism of both Israel and Iran’s nuclear programme – but added that any attempt to take “pre-emptive” military action against another nation in the region would be a return to “the law of the jungle”. All countries have a right to nuclear energy, he said.

(...)

 

[Syrian Lion]

Blackeagle.... its obvious that Morsi was talking about how Israel Iran b issues... i mean think outside the box.... do you know what the word RHETORIC MEAN?? Which the title and the article said in the beginning... its true Morsi didn't mention Iran... but he mentioned the concept......

face palm... you embarrassed your nation... that you can't even think outside the box.... same with Mosamanina

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Blackeagle.... its obvious that Morsi was talking about how Israel Iran b issues... i mean think outside the box.... do you know what the word RHETORIC MEAN?? Which the title and the article said in the beginning... its true Morsi didn't mention Iran... but he mentioned the concept......

face palm... you embarrassed your nation... that you can't even think outside the box.... same with Mosamanina

I watched the damn boring 38 min long speech, he didn't mention the threats from Israel/Iran at all, not even hinted at it. As I said he talked about nonproliferation of nuclear arms in the ME and criticized Israel possession of them.

 

[REHAN NIAZI FALCON]

You couldn't possibly have read the article in this very short time span. Or are you just that fast when it comes to licking the boots of your Israeli bosses?

Anyway, I think Morsi is a being a realist here. The Syrian civil war has apparently reached a stalemate: neither Assad nor the armed opposition can completely eliminate one another. And as we know, an intervention isn't coming. Besides, I think every external actor on each side of the issue has done all it could to bring about its desired outcome. Weapons smuggling, sanctions, sending in foreign troops, you name it. There isn't much anyone can do anymore; therefore, it makes sense to not allow Syria to absord all of the world's attention. And let's not forget this: in spite of all of the involvement of the likes of Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UK or France, the Syrian affair is fundamentally an internal issue, and it is no one foreign country's business to meddle in it or take position. And mind you, that Morsi -- he who's no friend of the Baathist regime in Syria -- is saying that Syria's isn't the world's most important issue, is very significant. As an opponent of Assad, it would be expected of him to play up the Syrian situation, if there really weren't more pressing issues where the world could, and should, play an important role.

And the I/P issue is much more important than you're giving it credit for. It may be quiet right now, but Palestine has the tendence to explode when people least expect it. No one saw either the First or the Second Intifada coming. It exploded just like that -- from mounting frustration of the Palestinians at their conditions: conditions that haven't improved much since the Second Intifada, as they still face dispossession, blockade, population transfer (that is, yes, ethnic cleansing), and now a major economic crisis. If the world refuses to pay attention to the area, it soon will be forced to. To prevent a dramatic increase in violence, it is necessary for the world to watch the area closely.

Moreover, it's very much necessary to also call attention, as Morsi did, to Israel's nuclear arsenal, for both political and moral reasons. As a nuclear power itself, Israel is in no position to campaign against Iran the way it is doing. And as a neighbor of Israel's, Egypt is very much interested in Israel's undeclared stockpile of nukes.

As for you, try to contribute with some other than these mindless Zionist talking points, this position that somewhere in the world there must always be a more important issue than the Palestinian one. If it weren't for Syria, no doubt some people would try to push some issue other than the Palestinian one to the top of the world's agenda -- famine in Africa, drug violence in Latin America, the land disputes in East Asia, anything with the potential to divert world attention from Israel's policies. Anyway, I doubt you and other people who resort to this argument, really care about "Muslims killing Muslims" -- what you care about, is divert attention from the acts of your favored allies.

IT IS NORMAL HABIT OF INDIANS ... we are quite much used to it ...