Advertisements Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) is putting forth an amendment to Joe Biden’s requested supplemental bill that would send more than $14 billion to Israel and $30 billion to Ukraine in additional military funding (as well as another $30 billion-plus in economic aid to Ukraine). His amendment, which nowContinue Reading
Advertisements Nicholas Kristof might have called for ending US military aid to Israel, but he tempered the call by saying that such a cut should not ignore Israel’s “legitimate security concerns.” We keep hearing about those concerns, and certainly there are some. But do they justify everything Israel and theContinue Reading
Advertisements Over the weekend, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column that needs to be circulated to every office in Congress. In it, citing ex-U.S. government officials, including two former ambassadors to Israel, Kristof proposed that the US stop its annual aid package to Israel. Not condition theContinue Reading
Advertisements Democratic leadership committed a political blunder by trying to sneak an additional $1 billion in funding for Israel (on top of the $3.8 they get annually already) into a bill to raise the debt ceiling. This was funding that was guaranteed to pass in the NDAA bill, so itContinue Reading
Advertisements There is a promising bill in the House of Representatives, brought by Betty McCollum of Minnesota, that would *gasp* require that Israel obey U.S. law in its use of U.S. military aid. [A bill which counts ReThinking Foreign Policy among its supporting organizations] While the political power to seeContinue Reading
