Israel Is Definitely Held to a Different Standard

Israel Is Definitely Held to a Different Standard – Just Not the Way It Thinks

Mouin Rabbani

Zeteo: 08 Sep 2025

Israel and its flunkies consistently complain that Israel is held to a different standard than other states.

The assertion is factually correct, though not in the manner intended.

No state since the Second World War, and this includes the United States, Soviet Union, Russia, and China, has enjoyed both the impunity and freedom from criticism enjoyed by Israel.

It was hardly a taboo to condemn the US wars against Vietnam or Iraq, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Russia’s wars in Chechnya or Ukraine, or China’s domestic policies.

By contrast, the prominent politicians who dared to explicitly condemn Israel for its murderous 1982 invasion of Lebanon, for example, can be counted on the fingers of an amputated hand.

Zero economic sanctions, zero arms embargoes, zero UN-mandated criminal tribunals, zero anything with practical consequences.

The same could be said for Israel’s nuclear arsenal. Iran has been subjected to decades of Western and UN sanctions on the pretext that these are required to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.

Unlike Iran, Israel has refused to ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has possessed a nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. Western governments systematically refuse to even acknowledge that this arsenal exists, let alone attach even a single consequence to Israel’s possession of hundreds of nuclear weapons and advanced delivery systems. Most recently, Germany knowingly provided Israel with nuclear-weapons-capable submarines and subsidized much of their cost.

Ensuring a permanent Israeli nuclear monopoly in the Middle East while simultaneously refusing to acknowledge its existence is the West’s undeclared policy.Any organization with the temerity to hold Israel to the same standards applied to others must be destroyed – by any means necessary.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), was adopted by 122 countries and is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons. It bans developing, testing, possessing, and threatening to use nuclear weapons, aiming for their total elimination. While it represents a major step toward disarmament, none of the established nuclear-armed states, including Israel, have joined the treaty.