Why Syria yes and Israel no?

Nuqudy.com:

With the visit this week of the US Secretary of State John Kerry with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu the world watched and waited to see if pressure would shift from Syria to Israel. On his part, the UN Syrian Ambassador Bashar Jaafari said Damascus feels it is unfair to prosecute Syria when “no one talks about Israeli chemical weapons”.

However, the Israeli spokesperson, Yigal Palmor affirmed that the ratification of the UN chemical arms convention is out of the question while “other countries in the region hold chemical weapons arsenals and don’t accept the existence of Israel as a country and continue to threaten to destroy it.”

The Israeli ratification has been pendant for over 20 years form the time that Yitzhak Rabin signed the convention nonetheless the parliament did not ratify the action. Such action leaves Israel on the lesser side of 185 ratified countries and in the opinion of many in the international community leaving the state behind in human rights.

The American government has attempted in the past to convince Israel to ratify the convention but has been unsuccessful so far. The Director of weapons control and regional security of the Institute of national security studies at Hebrew University Emily Landau affirmed that it is "unreasonable" to demand such an action form Israel because of the treaty with the Syrian government. She continued to exclaim that: “I do not feel that such an action is fair at the moment. There is no similarity between the Syrian and Israeli conduct in relation to chemical weapons”.

Yet, there are many who do not find this to be an accurate argument for the Israeli government. Journalist Barak Ravid, says: “The Iraqi chemical threat, if it ever existed, has been gone for decades, the Egyptian chemical program is dormant, and the only chemical threat which is Syria could possibly be gone within one year,” he said, adding that “the ratification of the convention and dismantling the arsenal could win the country international credit.”