{"id":153835,"date":"2015-05-23T20:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153835"},"modified":"2015-05-23T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T20:36:44","slug":"us-supports-israels-nuclear-arsenal-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-supports-israels-nuclear-arsenal-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"US supports Israel\u2019s nuclear arsenal: Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The United States continues to support the stockpiling of nuclear weapons by Israel because the Zionist regime is an &#8220;integral part&#8221; of Washington\u2019s imperial system exerting hegemony in the Middle East, a geopolitical analyst in New York says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael knows that despite the fact that it won\u2019t publically acknowledge or publicly recognize its own nuclear arsenal, but it is in fact quite dependent upon its nuclear arsenal,\u201d said Eric Draitser, the founder of StopImperialism.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question really is why the United States continues to support Israel in that regard and I think the answer is almost self-evident because Israel is part and parcel of an imperial system that the United States has built over the last 70 years,\u201d Draitser told Press TV on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael as the colonial entity in the region, is a fundamental part of that, it is part of the way in which the empire exerts hegemony in the Middle East, it\u2019s part of the way in which it attempts to have full spectrum dominance over that region,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/23\/412500\/US-Israel-nuclear-hegemony-Middle-East\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States continues to support the stockpiling of nuclear weapons by Israel because the Zionist regime is an &#8220;integral part&#8221; of Washington\u2019s imperial system exerting hegemony in the Middle East, a geopolitical analyst in New York says. \u201cIsrael knows that despite the fact that it won\u2019t publically acknowledge or publicly recognize its own nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}