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Originally Posted by Danny
While the fact shouldn't be a surprise, the admission is definitely newsworthy and begs a few questions about US foreign policy.
The USA gives Isarel billions in aid each year but Israel is in violation of many UN resolutions. This kind of hipprocacy is exactly the kind of thing that hinders the USA's credibility in trying to stop nations like Iran form getting the bomb. The US needs to stop the bullshit. If they told the truth and said we know Israel has the bomb, they've had it for years and make the case that Isael doesn't exactly call for other nation's destructions as a defence it might go a long way.
Furthermore, the USA needs to give Israel an ultimatum of 1967 borders with new Palestinian state or no more aid. Then you'd be able to see some credibility back on the USA's side. Oh and they need to impeach Bush.
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I agree. I think the US should be consistent in its treatment of UN resolutions. I also think that Israel and the US should pull out of the UN, since it is obviously biased against both. Regardless, this has nothing to do with the status of Israels nukes, of which there is no proof that they were developed with the aid of the US. There is proof however that they were developed with the aid of France, and that Israel is not a signatory to the NPT, and therefore there is no internatioal law preventing them from developing their own nukes.
Unlike Iran, Iraq, and at one time North Korea, all who blatently thwarted the UN, the NPT, and the IAEA. Yet where was the outcry then? It should also be noted that the US has given lots of aid to those countries as well.