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fun fact, due to US law surrounding sending nuclear-armed states, aid to Israel is actually illegal (Symington, Glenn amendments) of course, Israel maintains a policy of neither confirming nor denying their nuclear armed status so that’s the loophole
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Anonymous 5w

That is a fun one, didn’t know that. What’s the background there? And is that to say that we couldn’t help France if they suffered some sort of natural disaster or went to war and needed aid?

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 5w

France has signed the NPT and is considered a nuclear weapon state, one of five, so Glenn doesn’t apply (which applies sanctions if a non-nuclear weapon state does a test. Israel is likely to have done a test, see the Veld incident.)

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Anonymous replying to -> fuuuckyikyak 5w

The Symington amendment is related to supplying enrichment tech without IAEA safeguards. France actually ran afoul of it for supplying Pakistan briefly. It applies to both import and export though, so would probably apply to Israel.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

France ended up canceling the deal with Pakistan. (Although really it was Pakistan that took the hit- their aid was cut off for about a year.)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

Ah ok very interesting, thanks for the explanation!

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