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For four decades, all U.S. aid to Israel has been illegal under U.S. law. Amounting to an average of just under $3 billion a year, the American taxpayers have been subsidizing Israel, effectively rewarding them for continuously violating our nuclear proliferation laws. In the meantime, they’ve built an atomic arsenal on par with Great Britain, and equipped their navy with Doomsday submarines. Israel now has five submarines with nuclear strike capabilities, and a sixth scheduled for delivery in 2019.Since 1977 the U.S. government has continued to violate its own laws, and in the process destroyed much of our credibility on the world stage. The enforcement of these laws would result in immediately terminating billions in yearly armament “aid” that would reverberate through much of the military industrial complex around Washington, DC. It would also seriously undermine the funding strategies and influence of groups, such as AIPAC, that want to keep this endless gravy train of free goodies flowing Israel’s way.Israel has over 100 nuclear weapons. No one in the US government will publicly admit to this truth because to do so would break the very laws we passed decades ago against proliferation, while simultaneously exposing the hypocrisy of the current Israeli foreign policy of the US.Glenn AmendmentAdopted 1977. Sec. 102(b) of the Arms Export Control Act, formerly Sec. 670 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended.Prohibits U.S. foreign assistance to any non-nuclear-weapon state (as defined by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) that, among other things, detonates a nuclear explosive device.Symington AmendmentAdopted 1976. Sec. 101 of the Arms Export Control Act, formerly Sec. 669 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 as amended.Prohibits most U.S. assistance to any country found trafficking in nuclear enrichment equipment or technology outside of international safeguards.The selective enforcement of the laws, and use of legalese to skirt them, is employed not only by the current White House Administration, but also by those who preceded it, and only adds to the long list of selective justice examples in this country. This is not a Left vs. Right issue, but a legal vs. illegal issue of which every American should be ashamed.It is time for the so-called most transparent Administration in history to live up to its stated principles and finally do right by the American people. We need to have an open discussion on our selective enforcement of US laws and the repercussions of breaking those laws if the US government is ever to reestablish trust, not only with the rest of the world, but with the American people themselves.http://wilkesbarrescrantonig.com/2015/03/29/all-aid-to-israel-is-illegal/