Al-Mikdad: Zionist Entity a Mass Destruction Weapon Designed by West to Apply “Democracy” in ME

Beirut- Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faysal al-Mikdad has likened the Zionist entity, which killed tens of thousands of innocent Arabs and Palestinians, to the mass destruction weapon designed by western countries to apply their own “democracy” in the Arab region.

In an article published by the Lebanese “al-Binaa” newspaper on Saturday under the title “Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East”, Mikdad said the number of Arab and Palestinian civilians killed by the Zionist entity is bigger than that of the Japanese victims of the American nuclear bombs which targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

“Besides its crimes of killing and destruction, Israel insists on not joining the Non-Proliferation Treaty or putting its nuclear facilities to international inspection in a blatant violation of all standards of international cooperation which aims to rid the world of the danger of nuclear weapon,” Mikdad added.

He pointed out that the only brave call for making the Middle East free of mass destruction weapons was made by Syria at the Security Council in 2003 by calling on the Middle East countries to join the NPT and other treaties that ban the use, test or storage of mass destruction weapons.

“The Western countries disapproval of the Syrian draft resolution and their repeated threats of vetoing the resolution indicate the hypocrisy and double standard policies practiced by these countries to protect their ally, Israel,” the deputy minister said.

He clarified that the American and other western anti-Syria stances became clearer when Syria made its historical decision to give its chemical program up and particularly after investigations and evidences began to prove that the use of chemical weapons was done by the foreign-backed terrorist groups in Syria.

“In support for efforts to prohibit chemical weapons in the Middle East, Syria decided to join the Chemical Weapons Convention on September 14, 2013 after an initiative proposed by the Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Mikdad said.

He added that Syria has eliminated its chemical program and fulfilled its obligations, but the western blackmail attempts didn’t stop to politicize the process and create pretext to target the country.

H. Mustafa