[Salon] THE TIME HAS COME TO RECONSIDER MASSIVE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL -

[Salon] THE TIME HAS COME TO RECONSIDER MASSIVE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL - micheletkearney@gmail.com - Gmail THE TIME HAS COME TO RECONSIDER MASSIVE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL ———————————————- Israel, a prosperous country, is the largest beneficiary of U.S. aid in history, having received approximately $150 billion in taxpayer assistance as of 2022, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. President Biden now proposes to provide Israel with an additional $14 billion. Unfortunately, we are financing policies with which we disagree and which threaten our interests and regional peace. President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken repeatedly speak of a “two-state solution.” But Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejects this. When Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was moving toward establishment of a Palestinian state, he was assassinated by an ultra-Orthodox right-wing activist. Several members of the Netanyahu Cabint view the assassin, Yigal Amir, in heroic terms. Prime Ministrr Netanyahu rejects the two state solution. He speaks of “annexing” the West Bank, and members of his government speak of expelling the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. Israel, in violation of international law, has occupied the West Bank for more than 50 years. In the West Bank, Palestinians live under a system characterized as “apartheid” by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem. It is difficult to understand why U.S. taxpayers should finance policies such as these. ALLAN C. BROWNFELD, Editor of ISSUES, the quarterly journal of the American Council for Judaism (www.ACJNA.org).