Israel Accuses ElBaradei of ‘Bias’

At a meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency last week, Israel’s apparently paranoid delegate reportedly called on Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei "to avoid political bias" and to refrain from "publicly lashing" Israel.

That’s right! Israel’s delegate – not Iran’s – made those charges.

Why apparently paranoid?

Well, scroll back to June of 1981.

The paranoid Israelis had somehow convinced themselves that the nuclear research reactor the French were building for the Iraqis at Tuwaitha – which would be fueled with near-weapons-grade enriched Uranium, already subject to IAEA Safeguards – would be misused by Saddam Hussein to produce nuclear weapons.

So, in complete defiance of the UN Charter, the Israelis launched Operation Opera, their fighter-bomber squadrons violating Jordanian and Saudi Arabian airspace in order to destroy the not-yet-fueled Iraqi nuclear reactor.

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