American aid to Israel has never been suspended. How is this possible without violating American law?
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The Symington Amendment and the Glenn Amendment.
Two pieces of American law. Both passed in the 1970s. Both requiring the United States to cut off economic and military assistance to countries that deliver or receive nuclear enrichment technology outside of international safeguards.
Israel clearly qualifies.
American aid to Israel has never been suspended.
How is this possible without violating American law?
Through a policy of deliberate, formal, institutionalized not-looking.
Every year, the U.S. intelligence community produces assessments of nuclear capabilities worldwide. Every year, by long-standing arrangement, Israel is not assessed. The question is not asked officially so the answer does not have to be given officially so the law does not have to be applied.
This is called "nuclear opacity" or "nuclear ambiguity."
It is a legal fiction maintained by the conscious, deliberate choice of multiple U.S. administrations across fifty years not to ask a question they already knew the answer to.
Because the answer would require them to stop writing the check.
So the question is not asked.
The law exists.
The law is not applied.
The arsenal exists.
The arsenal is not acknowledged.
The inspectors are not invited.
The treaty is not signed.
The aid continues.
This is not hypocrisy in the casual sense.
This is a structural, legally-managed, deliberately-maintained double standard so embedded in American foreign policy that it has its own technical terminology.
Terminology designed, like all good euphemisms, to make the thing it describes sound administrative rather than corrupt.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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