US supports Israel’s nuclear arsenal: Analyst

The United States continues to support the stockpiling of nuclear weapons by Israel because the Zionist regime is an "integral part" of Washington’s imperial system exerting hegemony in the Middle East, a geopolitical analyst in New York says.

“Israel knows that despite the fact that it won’t publically acknowledge or publicly recognize its own nuclear arsenal, but it is in fact quite dependent upon its nuclear arsenal,” said Eric Draitser, the founder of StopImperialism.com.

“The 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,” Draitser told Press TV on Saturday.

“Israel 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’s part of the way in which it attempts to have full spectrum dominance over that region,” he added.

Israel is widely believed to be the sole possessor of a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East with more than 200 undeclared nuclear warheads.

Tel Aviv has rejected global calls to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and does not allow international inspectors to observe its controversial nuclear program.

On Friday, the United States rejected a United Nations document aimed at eradicating the world of nuclear weapons,following objections by Israel.

The US said Egypt and other states "cynically manipulated" the process by trying to set a deadline for Israel on a Middle East zone free of such weapons.

Over 150 countries participated in the month-long conference reviewing the 1970 NPT.

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