Report: US offered to let Israel buy nuclear reactors without joining NPT

Haaretz reports that in the summer of 2010, after the blowup over Ramat Shlomo, and when the Obama administration realized just how badly Democrats were likely to fare in the midterm elections (those are my gloss - not Haaretz's), the Obama administration attempted to mollify Israel by allowing it to bid on the purchase of nuclear reactors without joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.