""The Arab proposal to create a
weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone in the Mideast and to pressure Israel to
give up its undeclared arsenal of perhaps 80 nuclear warheads, was endorsed by
the 1995 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty conference but never acted on." "While
Syria's civil war, nuclear tensions with Iran and other Mideast frictions will
be cited as the official reason for the cancellation, one of the diplomats
acknowledged that the decision is mainly being taken because Israel has decided
not to attend.""