Chemical weapons: A global scale

With 100 UN officials working in Syria to disarm the government from Chemical Weapons, one has to wonder what about the rest of the world? Israel has the largest stockpile of Chemical Weapons in the entire Middle East and yet they go on unaccounted for. Avner Cohen, a senior member at the Center for International and Security Studies, and the Program on Security and Disarmaments at the University of Maryland, wrote a comprehensive paper on Israel’s chemical and biological weapons. Cohen stated that Israel’s chemical weapon started with David Ben Gurion’s doctrine: “the destruction of the Palestinian society in Palestine is a necessary condition for the establishment of the state of Israel on its ruins. If Palestinians cannot be removed by massacres and expulsion, they shall be removed by extermination.”

The numbers and details of the Israeli chemical and biological attacks against Palestinians are many and require large volumes to document. During the Palestinian Intifada the Palestinian youths were used as test subjects for new chemical weapons; toxins and incapacitates. It is known however that on a number of occasions White phosphorus especially in 2008-2009 has been used on a large scale on the Palestinian people.

Or just look at America who has used Chemical Weapons in almost all the wars they have been involved in. In the Vietnam war America sprayed 20 million gallons of the Chemical Weapon known as Agent Orange, because of this 400,000 people were killed. America used white phosphorus on the Iraqi people in 2004 and at the famous Waco siege the FBI pumped tear gas onto innocent people inside knowing it would harm them because of this crime 27 children died.

And the most famous would be the atomic bomb that they dropped on Hiroshima, which they also went unaccounted for. All these crimes from both Israel and America have gone unnoticed, who are they to shun any other government for using chemical weapons when they themselves have used it countless times. If they want to play this game of disarmament of Chemical Weapons then they should also be unarmed of Chemical Weapon agents and end the hypocrisy.

Lisa.