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Did Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, Just Say the Obvious?

Posted on the 17 April 2024 by Doggone
Gilad Erdan just confirmed pretty much everything I'm saying here if this is an uncut or edited video.
ANd Just remember that Israel has been in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty for a while (maybe over 60 years). The US Legislators who have been funding Israel have been in violation of United States law as well.

American aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers who don't sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. the Arms Export Control Act of 1976 (22 U.S.C. ch. 39). The US has long suspected that lsrael has been making nuclear weapons. Mordecai Vanunu showed conclusively that Dimona Nuclear plant was making nuclear weapons. Still, the US has not shut off aid to Israel.
Israel refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, a policy of deliberate ambiguity known as "nuclear ambiguity" or "nuclear opacity." This has made it difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to describe the country's true nuclear policy definitively, while still allowing Israel to influence the perceptions, strategies and actions of other governments. However, over the years, some Israeli leaders have publicly acknowledged their country's nuclear capability: Ephraim Katzir in 1974, Moshe Dayan in 1981, Shimon Peres in 1998, and Ehud Olmert in 2006.
During his 2006 confirmation hearings before the United States Senate regarding his appointment as George W. Bush's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, and two years later, in 2008, former US president Jimmy Carter stated the number of nuclear weapons held by Israel to be "150 or more". 

There is also the Leahy Law: section 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 22 U.S.C. 2378d and  10 U.S. Code § 362, says that no funds may be used for any training, equipment, or other assistance for a unit of a foreign security force if the Secretaries of State or Defense have credible information that a country has committed a gross violation of human rights.

The U.S. is a signatory to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Congress passed the Genocide Convention Implementation Act (18 U.S.C. § 1091) in 1988, making it federal law. International law imposes on Biden and other high-level officials a legal duty to prevent genocide. The United States has significant capacity to influence Israel's actions as its primary provider of military and political support. Therefore, the U.S. has been obligated, since learning of the serious risk of genocide in Gaza, to exercise its considerable influence on the Israeli government to prevent the crime.

Israel and Zionism are their own worst enemy.


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