Israel Lobby Archive
As Congress debates foreign aid legislation, it’s time to remember nuclear nonproliferation restrictions on US taxpayer funded expenditures.
Former astronaut and Senator John Glenn amended aid legislation in 1977. Since then, the US may not provide civilian or military aid to any foreign country trafficking nuclear technology outside the international nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty safeguards. Recent confirmations by US officials that Israel is a nuclear weapons state mean that unless President Barak Obama signs a special waiver to the Speaker of the House and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no US foreign aid may legally be delivered to Israel in 2010.
See the Israel Lobby Archive 1977 Glenn Amendment
(Source: HeinOnline–91 Stat 620 1977)
See current US foreign aid law, as amended
(Source: Cornell US Legal Code website )