U.S. nuclear aid to Israel

Iran is threatening to release documents showing how the United States has provided Israel with enriched nuclear materials. This isn't new at all, considering the U.S. has been propping up this Middle Eastern killing machine since 1948, supplying them with weapons to defend the only American democratic oasis in the region. In contrast to the widespread vilification of Mahmoud Ahmahdinejad over alleged nuclear ambitions, Israel's own possession of actual warheads has been largely glossed over. The irony of the fear campaign directed against Iran is that technically, although they have been deemed in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, they have actually signed it, unlike Israel.

Israel has refused inspections of its nuclear weapons program, meaning that if Netanyahu converted to Islam (or decided to hike royalty fees for the United States in light of new oil and gas discoveries in Israel that could render it energy self sufficient), he'd probably be in some deep trouble with America. But Israel is a democracy, therefore saintly and pure. A democracy that demands citizens pledge allegiance to a wholly Jewish state. Netanyahu's right wing conservative government has about as much tolerance for multiculturalism as I do for flouro high waisted pants (that is none).

But I have to say one thing for Netanyahu, he just doesn't give a shit, does he? He has already stated that there's no way Palestinians are ever returning to their homeland, "any demand for resettling Palestinian refugees within Israel undermines Israel's continued existence as the state of the Jewish people." And hes also straining relations with his long term American buddies over the continued construction of 1600 homes in East Jerusleum, which is occupied territory and is illegal to build on under international law. Obama even offered him upgrades to Israel's advanced weapons and an increase in the $3 billion annual aid for nothing.

In the understatement of the year, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Israeli settlement activities posed a threat to Middle East peace talks.

A recently discovered document released by the South African government also reveals a secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, Israel’s Foreign Minister at the time (and today Israel’s President) and South Africa’s Defense Minister P. W. Botha in 1975. Israel offered to sell the apartheid regime weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and conventional weaponry to destroy and defeat the million person African resistance movement. 

But don't be so quick to judge. I mean, is it really so different from the U.S. supplying Israel with WMDs  which they may one day use to wipe out those pesky Arabs on the other side of the bank?