31, March 2015 Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his pre-election
racist diatribe against Arabs, pledged unequivocally, “there will never an
independent Palestinian State.” In recent interviews, rabbis, scholars and Jews
from across the country and a range of denominations said that his campaign
tactics, had further divided American Jews and alienated even some
conservatives, who had already suspected that he was more committed to building
settlements than to building peace with the
Palestinians.
Many Americans were further outraged to learn that
Israeli intelligence spied on the US-Iran talks and then fed the information to
congressional Republicans in a desperate effort to scuttle the US-Iran nuclear
talks.
William Quandt, who served on the National
Security Council under Presidents Carter and Nixon, stated that there is a need
to impose a cost on Israel’s intransigence and military occupation.
It is time the US presents an ultimatum to Israel.
End the brutal and suffocating occupation; develop specific timelines to
establish a Palestinian State, lift the crippling siege of Gaza and repatriate
tax revenues withheld from the Palestine Authority. If Israel fails to respond to
such demands, all US military and economic support should be halted immediately.
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