Literally 100% of our foreign aid to Israel for at least the last 50 years has been objectively illegal under American and international law because of Israel's secret undeclared nuclear weapons program developed using uranium stolen from the US. Under any rational reading of the law, the US should be sanctioning Israel as a rogue state and arresting its leaders just for their repeated violations of nuclear proliferation bans. But instead, when international law experts or human rights activists have tried to enforce international law against Israel, the US sanctions them, freezes their assets, and makes it so they can't travel internationally or even get a credit card.
The Samson Option - In 1973, Israel was back at war. This time against a new coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria in what's now referred to as the Yam Kapur war. By the third day, Israel's munition stockpiles were almost totally depleted. Facing imminent defeat and loss of territory, our greatest ally armed their secret illegal nuclear weapons and demanded a meeting with Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's Secretary of State. Starting in the early morning hours of October 9th, 1973, the Israelis began repeatedly requesting airlifts of more material, tanks, planes, and other weapons, which Kissinger refused. But by the evening of October 9th, he'd suddenly reversed course, promising immediate resupply after a meeting with the Israeli ambassador, Simcha Nimitz. Kissinger never publicly spoke about the contents of the conversation at the meeting, but in his memoirs, he said that the request he'd received from the Israelis amounted to blackmail. According to the book, The Samson Option by Seymour Hirs, Kissinger privately acknowledged that there had been a nuclear threat both to Egyptian President Anoir Sadat and to Herman F. Yels, the American ambassador to Egypt. Yels told Hirs in a sort of casual reference, Kissinger told me that there was concern that the Israelis might go nuclear, "There had been intimations that if they didn't get the military equipment and quickly, they might go nuclear." In other words, our greatest ally threatened to use nuclear weapons against Egypt if the United States didn't guarantee them functionally unlimited material support. This is what's called the Samson option after the biblical character, also known as nuclear blackmail. It's understood to be official Israeli government policy that if the existence of their state is ever seriously threatened, or even if they might lose some land, that they'll respond by launching their entire nuclear arsenal at a predetermined list of targets, killing tens or hundreds of millions of people, including their own allies, and possibly causing a nuclear winter and ending life on Earth. So to be clear, it's the official state policy of our greatest ally that if their government ever faced imminent collapse, they would take down millions of people and possibly the whole world with them.
Tally Gotliv - Israeli lawyer and member of the Knesset for the Likud, Tally Gotliv: "Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. before considering the introduction of forces. Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion. May God preserve all our strength," "I urge you to do everything and use Doomsday weapons fearlessly against our enemies," adding that Israel "must use everything in its arsenal.""Only an explosion that shakes the Middle East will restore this country's dignity, strength and security!" Gotliv posted. "It's time to kiss doomsday. Shooting powerful missiles without limit. Not flattening a neighbourhood. Crushing and flattening Gaza. ... without mercy! without mercy!"
History of Israel's nuclear program
Dimona - During the Suez Crisis, Israel assisted France and Britain in an invasion of Egypt, momentarily seizing the Gaza strip; they also provided France intelligence during the Algerian War.
Later, David Ben-Gurion sent Israel's Director General of Defense, Shimon Peres to France to negotiate terms for Israel's involvement, resulting in an agreement in 1957 for France to help construct a Nuclear facility in Israel the Negev Desert outside the city of Dimona. Construction of the Dimona reactor began in secret in 1958, in violation of the NTP, to which Israel is still not a signatory. To raise money to build the reactor, Ben-Gurion and Peres appointed American Haganah agent and arms smuggler, Abraham Feinberg, the task of raising money around the world from wealthy Jews including Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild, Edmond Leopold De Rothschild, Isaac Wolson, Marcus Sieff, Louis Bloomfield, (former OSS member who held stock in Permindex) Samuel Zacks, Samuel Bronfman (Seagrums Liquour) and Henry Morgenthau Jr. Collective donations, which came from the Sonneborn institute, were coordinated by Henry Morgenthau Jr., former US secretary of the treasury, and author of the genocidal Morgenthau Plan, which would have killed millions of Germans had it been enacted. After FDR's death, Morgenthau resigned as secretary of the treasury, joining the Jewish Agency and becoming chairman of the United Jewish Appeal in 1946, working alongside its executive vice president, Henry Montor of the Sonneborn group. As chairman of UJA, Morgenthau would from 1946 to 1950 raise over half a billion dollars through fundraisers. Morgenthal and Montor also, alongside Rudolf Sonnenborn and Ben-Gurion, started the sale of Israeli bonds, worth $190,000,000.
The reactor was eventually spotted by American U2 spy planes, prompting intervention by JFK, and the rest is history.
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