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As the only nation on the planet to ever use nuclear weapons .. twice .. didn't have to either time .. we were testing .. still talk of its "tactical" use .. we don't have the "right" to determine who else gets them.
Every nation has a right to protect itself and Israel remains a threat to the Iranians, thus they have every right to the same weapons Israel has.
Additionally, no nation on the face of the earth is or has been in violation of more UN Resolutions than Israel, which is also guilty of many atrocoities of Palestinian people.
Israel isn't just hated by "extremist nations" it's the most hated nation on the planet.
Feel free to put Israel before the best interests of the US is you choose. That's your perogative.
One of these days history will finally paint President Truman's hands with the decades of bloodshed he stubbornly set in motion against the advice of foreign policy experts. Secretary of State George Marshall strongly supported a UN supervised protectorate state and predicted an era of war and hostility would follow the formation of Israel.
Has anybody heard this mentioned in college level World History?
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The Jewish Agency proposed partitioning Palestine into two parts -- one Jewish, one Arab. But the State and Defense departments backed the British plan to turn Palestine over to the United Nations. In March, Truman privately promised Chaim Weizmann, the future president of Israel, that he would support partition -- only to learn the next day that the American ambassador to the United Nations had voted for U.N. trusteeship. Enraged, Truman wrote a private note on his calendar: "The State Dept. pulled the rug from under me today. The first I know about it is what I read in the newspapers! Isn't that hell? I'm now in the position of a liar and double-crosser. I've never felt so low in my life. . . ."
Truman blamed "third and fourth level" State Department officials -- especially the director of U.N. affairs, Dean Rusk, and the agency's counselor, Charles Bohlen. But opposition really came from an even more formidable group: the "wise men" who were simultaneously creating the great Truman foreign policy of the late 1940s -- among them Marshall, James V. Forrestal, George F. Kennan, Robert Lovett, John J. McCloy, Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. To overrule State would mean Truman taking on Marshall, whom he regarded as "the greatest living American," a daunting task for a very unpopular president.
U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel
"I said bluntly that if the President were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the President."
George C. Marshall