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The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced that it will build another 4,000 new settlement homes in the West Bank. The announcement provoked a typical response from the U.S., which stated that it was "deeply concerned" and "troubled" by the news. "A more robust response," writes UCLA law professor Jonathan Zasloff, would be for the Biden administration to tell Israel that if it "has so much money to spend on settlements, then it obviously does not need American security assistance." |
Zasloff suggests that for every dollar the Israeli government spends on new settlements, which most countries deem illegal, the U.S. should suspend two dollars in military aid. Such a policy wouldn't hurt Israel's ability to defend itself, notes Zasloff. "Until the Russia-Ukraine War, Israel was receiving more U.S. military aid than all other nations combined." But it would hurt financially and make it clear that the uniquely favorable terms that Israel receives from the United States comes with conditions — namely that it cease building new settlements, which the late Yitzhak Rabin called a "cancer" that threaten to create Israeli "apartheid." "The Biden Administration would no doubt be wary of such an approach, particularly during an election year," Zasloff writes. "But Israel would have no right to protest American cuts in aid." Israel has total control over this outcome as long as it upholds its end of the bargain, Zasloff notes. "Any cuts would derive from West Jerusalem's choice, not Washington's." Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's July 4, 2023. Happy Independence Day! I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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Op-eds exploring key issues affecting the U.S. and world: |
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By Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University |
The Supreme Court just announced a new, vague category of businesses that have a constitutional right to discriminate against anyone for any reason they like. I'd like to explain to you what the law is now. I can't do that, because it can't be done. |
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By Kendall Qualls, founder and president of TakeCharge MN |
If I didn't know any better, I would have thought Minnesota Democrats had solved the homelessness problem, come up with a new way to combat the rising crime in our major cities, or that our children, regardless of their socioeconomic status, were graduating at record levels. But we're seeing none of that. |
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By John Bolton, former national security adviser |
The potential of significant Chinese facilities in Cuba is a red-flag threat to America. After the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Washington relied on an "implicit understanding" (in Henry Kissinger's words) with Moscow to reduce threats emanating from Cuba. Between China and America, however, no such modus operandi has ever existed. Beijing made no commitment comparable to Moscow. |
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By Douglas E. Schoen, Democratic consultant |
To be sure, a number of other issues that are less favorable to Democrats — the economy, crime and immigration — will also be at play in 2024. But if the party is able to keep abortion rights as a focal point of the campaign — in a way that ties the issue back to GOP extremism generally — President Biden has a good chance of returning to the White House with a Democratic Congress in tow. |
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