Zionist Regime Unhappy with Arab Countries putting "Israel" in the Spotlight

On the Second day of the monthlong meeting in New York, "Israel" began to feel the heat as Arab countries pushed to place the Zionist regime's nuclear arsenal and program in the spotlight.

Arab countries called for a nuclear-free Middle East, criticizing "Israel's" unacknowledged nuclear arsenal and program, and its consequential failure to sign the Non Proliferation Treaty NPT.

On Tuesday, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh expressed frustration at the lack of progress on implementing a nuclear-free Middle East, a goal that was declared in a resolution of a previous meeting of NPT signatories

He said that "Israel's" failure to sign the NPT and allow international monitoring of its nuclear program "renders the NPT a source of instability in the Middle East."

Egypt has proposed that this 2010 NPT conference back a plan calling for the start of negotiations next year on such a Mideast zone. The proposal may become a major debating point in the monthlong session.

The United States, a signatory of the NPT, chose to aim fire at Iran's nuclear program, shifting the attention away from its own violation of the NPT. The US also accused Iran of being a threat to peace in the Middle East, much to the satisfaction of some Arab officials who anything but disturbed at the focus on Iran's nuclear program.

Nevertheless, the debate about Iran dominated the first day of the month-long conference on how to improve the NPT.

The treaty is formally reviewed every five years at a meeting of treaty members - all the world's nations except India, Pakistan, "Israel" and North Korea, all of which either have confirmed or are believed to have nuclear weapons.

The review conference is meant to produce a final document pointing toward ways to better achieve the NPT's goals of checking the spread of nuclear weapons, while working toward reducing and eventually eliminating them.