Andrew Sullivan
It seems that the Obama administration is beginning to show it means business. This reader helps relieve some of my ignorance:
There is a very simple reason why we have to pretend that Israel does not possess nuclear weapons- the Non Proliferation Treaty. Under the treaty and US law, a non-signatory to the treaty (such as Israel) who acquires nuclear weapons is prohibited from receiving any foreign aid or military aid (the last estimates I saw were that Israel receives about a quarter of the US’s entire foreign aid budget, and half of our foreign military aid budget). So there you go.
More See also: Will Obama Break the Law for Israel’s Sake? And the Israel Lobby Archive