"okay for Israel to illegally and clandestinely commit nuclear proliferation and get away with it...but it's not okay for Iran, North Korea, or Syria or anyone else to do it"


LH, you have missed a very significant point.

Israel LEGALLY developed its nuclear devices- ISRAEL DID NOT SIGN the NPT.

The other countries you mention DID sign ( though I am not sure about N. Korea) and got significant help in their civilian nuclear power programs because of that. ISRAEL did not, and has NOT signed the NPT.

Anyone without nuclear weapons who signs the NPT gives up the right to develop nuclear weapons, and agrees to the monitoring which both N. Korea and Iran have refused to allow. A clear violation of international law, like Canada exporting asbestos to SE asia.

Those powers that had nuclear weapons at the time they signed the NPT agreed NOT to supply the technology or certain materials to others. Should N. Korea have done so ( in Syria, for example) that makes them in violation of the NPT as well. ( IF they signed it.)