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Lawsuit claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact
Jewish Telegraphic Agency ^ | August 12, 2016 6:31am

Posted on 08/12/2016 10:07:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A lawsuit filed in a US district court claims that US aid to Israel is illegal under a law passed in the 1970s that prohibits aid to nuclear powers that don’t sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington DC court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News.

Discussing his August 8 lawsuit in an interview to Court House News, Smith said the litigation has been 10 years in the making. …

(Excerpt) Read more at jta.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: grantfsmith; imep; nonproliferation; rop

1 posted on 08/12/2016 10:07:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: KC_Lion; SkyDancer

Ping.


2 posted on 08/12/2016 10:11:10 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Olog-hai

But giving money to Iran to build bombs is OK......


3 posted on 08/12/2016 10:14:05 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: Olog-hai

When all is said and done legally, SCOTUS will rule in favor of Smith ...


4 posted on 08/12/2016 10:14:28 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai

Anything at all to take down Israel

Nothing at all to take down the terrorists in the Middle East.

These folks have a damn strange set of priorities.


5 posted on 08/12/2016 10:52:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Army Air Corps

But it’s okay to send a pallet of money to Iran in the middle of the night.


6 posted on 08/12/2016 10:59:08 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: SkyDancer

Wanna bet that Mr. Smith is an unrepentant Jew-hater*? I wonder who finances his little group.

*I don’t bother saying “anti-Semite” any more; I cut to the bone of the issue, and call these wankers what they are.


7 posted on 08/12/2016 11:03:04 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Yep. Exactly.


8 posted on 08/12/2016 11:06:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Olog-hai

Hey Smitty, You got proof? Maybe like a test and sampling the air and soil?

Oh, never mind, you don’t have standing.

5.56mm


9 posted on 08/12/2016 11:10:10 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Olog-hai

If congress voted for it I don’t think he has a case.


10 posted on 08/12/2016 11:30:40 AM PDT by Ford4000
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To: Army Air Corps; SkyDancer

I think it is obvious that Libs are “Anti-Nuclear” since they are 100% okay with Iran getting The Bomb.


11 posted on 08/13/2016 5:33:13 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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