Lawsuit Warns $234 Billion In Aid To 'Israel'
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Lawsuit Warns $234 Billion In Aid To Israel Violates US Law Against Supporting Secret Nuclear States
By Kit O'Connell
MintPress News
First published in August 2016
A lawsuit warns that U.S. aid to Israel violates a law meant to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, even as the United States prepares to increase the already massive Israeli aid program.
Filed Aug. 8 by Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle East Policy, or IRMEP, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the suit alleges that U.S. aid to Israel violates two amendments to the 1961 Foreign Assistance Act, known as the the Symington and Glenn Amendments, which collectively ban support for countries engaged in clandestine nuclear programs.
In the lawsuit, Smith alleges that ...