{"id":3027,"date":"2021-01-01T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:56:54","slug":"the-guardian-joe-biden-should-end-the-us-pretence-over-israels-secret-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=3027","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian-Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel\u2019s \u2018secret\u2019 nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Desmond Tutu<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><strong>The cover-up has to stop \u2013 and with it, the huge sums in aid for a country with oppressive policies towards Palestinians<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><sub>Desmond Tutu is a Nobel peace laureate and a former archbishop of Cape Town<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0fbf779a1ac7ce649eb6a1a34ddd7509edab1f99\/0_117_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=605&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5dd22570628ce39b3ea475e3ba951b29\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em><sub>Benjamin Netanyahu has \u2018a sense of power and impunity\u2019. Photograph: Reuters<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has come into office. All have agreed to undermine US law by signing secret letters stipulating they will not acknowledge something everyone knows: that Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the reason for this is to stop people focusing on Israel\u2019s capacity to turn dozens of cities to dust. This failure to face up to the threat posed by Israel\u2019s horrific arsenal gives its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a sense of power and impunity, allowing Israel to dictate terms to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But one other effect of the US administration\u2019s ostrich approach is that it avoids invoking the US\u2019s own laws, which call for an end to taxpayer largesse for nuclear weapons proliferators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel in fact is a multiple nuclear weapons proliferator. There is overwhelming evidence that it offered to sell the apartheid regime in South Africa nuclear weapons in the 1970s and even conducted a joint nuclear test. The US government tried to cover up these facts. Additionally, it has never signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet the US and Israeli governments pushed for the invasion of Iraq based on lies about coming mushroom clouds. As Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu said: the nuclear weapons were not in Iraq \u2013 they are in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/31\/joe-biden-us-pretence-israel-nuclear-weapons?utm_term=755c2f1185663e3ce7110c2df73b8d2b&amp;utm_campaign=BestOfGuardianOpinionUK&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=opinionuk_email\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/dec\/31\/joe-biden-us-pretence-israel-nuclear-weapons?utm_term=755c2f1185663e3ce7110c2df73b8d2b&amp;utm_campaign=BestOfGuardianOpinionUK&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=opinionuk_email\" target=\"_blank\">Lire la suite:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desmond Tutu The cover-up has to stop \u2013 and with it, the huge sums in aid for a country with oppressive policies towards Palestinians Desmond Tutu is a Nobel peace laureate and a former archbishop of Cape Town Every recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/?p=3027\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,17,12,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-alexandriaaoc","post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-droit-justice","category-economie","category-environnement","category-gouvernance","category-news-politics","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.comandantetchao.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}