I think Warren is 100% right here. I’m not anti-Israel, I’m against illegal settlements. If Israel wants our money then they can comply with their obligations not to illegally settle land that isn’t theirs. If they decide the land is more important than our money that’s their choice too, but choices have consequences.
Sounds like Warren just made a quid pro quo. Time to investigate.Warren just lost herself any chance of being POTUS......the damn Democrats keep shooting themselves in the foot!
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Sunday indicated the US could withhold aid to Israel to force it to halt construction in settlements.Warren says withholding aid to Israel is ‘on the table’ to curb settlements
Top Democratic presidential contender says Jerusalem's policies are moving it away from a two-state solutionwww.timesofisrael.com
Asked during a political event in Iowa on her position on making aid conditional on stopping settlement expansion, the Massachusetts senator said “everything is on the table.
The US provides Israel with some $3.8 billion in military assistance annually.
“Right now, [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements. That does not move us toward a two-state solution,” Warren said.
“It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table,” she said, then repeated: “Everything is on the table.”
Warren is currently neck and neck with former vice president Joe Biden in polls ahead of the Democratic primaries, and has recently led in some surveys. She is seen as a more liberal, left-leaning candidate than Biden on many issues.
In June Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, ranked third in the race, said he would “absolutely” consider dangling cuts to American aid to Israel in order to pressure Jerusalem.
However Sanders also said at the time that he would not make decisions that render Israel militarily vulnerable.
Military aid packages to Israel have steadily increased since the mid-1980s, when they were first offered, and are considered a linchpin of the US-Israel alliance. Few American lawmakers have challenged the handouts. In September 2016, then-president Barack Obama and Netanyahu signed a memorandum of understanding upping the figure from $3 billion annually to $3.8 billion annually for the next 10 years, despite frosty ties between the two.
The aid package is seen in Israel as key to helping it maintain its qualitative military edge over potential threats in the region.
Sounds like Warren just made a quid pro quo. Time to investigate.
As usual you continue to excel in ignorance.Sounds like Warren just made a quid pro quo. Time to investigate.
Sounds like Warren just made a quid pro quo. Time to investigate.
Well that was just a lame "argument". Please point out where Warren asked for for dirt on or an investigation of her political opponent in her remarks in exchange for providing aid IF she is elected President. What of value to her campaign did she request from Israel in exchange for continuing aid?
I’m never sure if he’s purposefully lying or if he’s just that indoctrinated.
I wondered why people expect Israel to pursue a two-state solution while the stated goal of Hamas was to completely destroy Israel and refuse to acknowledge its legitimacy. Looks like Hamas altered its charter in 2017:
"Hamas’s charter long called for the destruction of Israel. It was revised in 2017 to allow for acceptance of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip rather than the entire territory, though Hams still refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli state."
What is Hamas?
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since 1987.www.vox.com
Do you mind looking up what the definition of a strawman argument is instead of making posts insinuating a bunch of people are doing it? Thanks.
Continuously falsely stating an argument is a strawman doesn't make it one.
In addition, posts of simple 1 to 2 sentence posts that do not offer a competent argument reply doesn't do anything in regards to a debate.
Arguing that someone must be antisemitic because they oppose the Israeli govt's policies is an obvious straw man.
Maybe you should debate with more competent arguments that just making up wild arguments for your opponents just so you can rant and call them stupid and other names.
This whole anti-Israel thing really is getting out of hand.
These incredibly moronic democrats that are anti-Israel obviously have the intelligence level of 12 year old because they clearly have no history of the situation.
It's just - EVIL WHITE JEWS oppressing poor brown muslims that just want to pray.
Yeah sure buddy, that's the full story. Whatever you want to tell yourselves. Notice this only comes from the mouths of the fucking morons of the democrats. No real competent candidates would say something so stupid.
So you are all for occupation of land gained through military conflict?
Is Hamas still the de facto ruling party of the Gaza strip? That might define a future Palestinian state.Probably because the Palestinians are not defined by their most extreme elements just like Israel is not defined by some of the extreme elements in Netanyahu’s governing coalition.
Is Hamas still the de facto ruling party of the Gaza strip? That might define a future Palestinian state.
It's about time someone publicly refused to suck the Israeli's collective penis.
Generally referred to as LOAC (Law of Armed Conflict) in the US military.Rules of war? Its like in the first week or so.
How did soldiers avoid shooting medics?
Answer (1 of 35): It isn’t. It is a war crime to shoot certain medics under certain circumstances. But don’t go thinking that every medic, in every circumstance, is even legally safe from every shooter. First, the medic must be unarmed. If your medic is carrying a rifle, or even a pistol, or a...www.quora.com
I have no idea why Warren made a public announcement like this. If elected, she world have all the leverage she needs to put pressure on Israel to stop it's Arab displacement policies.
The Biden camp must be filled with glee.
It's the adult equivalent of 'quit hitting yourself.' They support the taking of other people's property using the justification that those people resist having their property taken.Hamas is a reaction to Israeli policy, not justification for it. Israeli policy wrt the Fatah govt in the West Bank is the same, actually worse, because that's the territory they keep taking.
Not so sure about that. Israel is not particularly popular with the Democratic base, especially since Netanyahu came out as a political partisan against Democrats.
Yeah, that's a pretty sharp drop off in 2017/18!Not so sure about that. Israel is not particularly popular with the Democratic base, especially since Netanyahu came out as a political partisan against Democrats.
Point out where Trump asked for dirt? So what the Dems are now claiming is anything that Trump does as President can be considered personal gain for campaign purposes?Well that was just a lame "argument". Please point out where Warren asked for for dirt on or an investigation of her political opponent in her remarks in exchange for providing aid IF she is elected President. What of value to her campaign did she request from Israel in exchange for continuing aid?