Symington Amendment.

signcutter · Jun 30, 2013

Why isnt Israel subject to this amendment... everybody else is.... what is it that the Zionist pigs do that make American traitor politicians roll over and give these terrorists our hard earned tax dollars? Why dont Republicans crucify the Obama administration with this clear criminal lawless behavior?

Israeli Nuclear Arsenal Prohibits US Foreign Aid Under Symington Amendment
* Reuters is not responsible for the content in this press release.

Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:39pm EDT

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. ( illegal?)
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://www.irmep.org

SOURCE Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy

Grant F. Smith of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy,
+1-202-342-7325
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