[Some kind readers have written in anonymously to maintain that Israel cannot violate a treaty that it never signed. This allegation betrays a misunderstanding of how international law works. There is a sufficient basis in the sources for international law for proliferation to be considered illegal. The UNSC encourages member states to incorporate the NPT Treaty into their own national law by formally adopting the treaty. States may neglect to do so but that does not blunt the force of international law. Note that only three other states in the whole world join Israel in declining to sign the NPT. Sudan can violate the UN Convention on Genocide, which it has not signed, and Burma can violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which it has not signed. Not only has Israel ignored UNSC resolutions against proliferation itself, but it helped the odious South African Apartheid State with its nuclear weapons program in the 1970s. That's an outlaw status.]
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