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| IRmep Congress Watch - "Israeli Nuclear Arsenal Prohibits US Foreign Aid"
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
1:58 PM
From: "IRmep" <books@inre.org>
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Zionist Organization
of America are now lobbying for destabilizing and wasteful US military aid to
Israel. The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy has notified
every member of Congress and the President that it is unlawful under
the Symington Amendment to provide US taxpayer funded assistance to
states trafficking nuclear equipment outside of international nonproliferation
regimes.
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03/30/2009 Memo to Congress (via fax)
03/30/2009 Letter to Barak Obama (US mail)
03/31/2009 Israel Lobby Archive (new section)
03/31/2009 News Release (just issued)
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Wall Street Journal/MarketWatch via PR Newswire
http://tinyurl.com/WSJ-Nukes
Title "Israeli Nuclear Arsenal Prohibits US Foreign Aid Under Symington"
WASHINGTON, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Zionist Organization of America
(ZOA) are heavily lobbying Congress for $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel.
However credible reports from the US Army and a former president confirm
the existence of an Israeli nuclear weapons arsenal. This could prohibit US
taxpayer funded fiscal year 2010 foreign aid.
The declassified US Army report titled "The Joint Operating Environment 2008"
identifies Israel as a nuclear weapons power. Specifically the US Army highlights
"a growing arc of nuclear powers running from Israel in the west through an
emerging Iran to Pakistan, India, and on to China, North Korea, and Russia
in the east." Jimmy Carter became the first former President to confirm in 2008
that Israel has secretly financed, developed and deployed an undeclared
arsenal of nuclear weapons.
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended by the Symington Amendment
of 1976 and the Glenn Amendment of 1977 prohibit US military assistance to
countries that acquire or transfer nuclear reprocessing technology outside of
international nonproliferation regimes. Israel, unlike Iran, is not a signatory to
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. If Congress wishes to provide US taxpayer
funded foreign aid to Israel in compliance with US law, it may do so only under
a special waiver from the office of the President as in the case for Pakistan.
Upholding the Symington Amendment could be an early litmus test as Congress
and Executive branch strive to restore public confidence in the aftermath of the
US invasion of Iraq and global financial crisis. According to IRmep director of
research Grant F. Smith, "Governance depends on rule of law-- it is imperiled
if government openly flouts important laws. It is no longer acceptable for
Congress or the President to invoke 'strategic ambiguity,' a practice whereby
US government officials publicly pretend to the American people that Israel
possesses no nuclear weapons."
Links to the US army report on nuclear proliferation may be found at the Israel
Lobby Archive: http://IRmep.org/ila/. The Archive is a unit of the Institute for Research:
Middle Eastern Policy in Washington. The Archive digitizes declassified
documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act filings with law
enforcement, intelligence, and trade agencies.
http://tinyurl.com/WSJ-Nukes
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