In a move that has Israeli officials scrambling, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D – VT) is pushing a bill that does the unthinkable, holds Israel to the same standard as other nations with respect to military aid.
The bill would halt aid to certain Israeli “elite forces” units, including the Shayetet 13 unit involved in the attack on the Mavi Marmara aid ship, over growing evidence that the units are responsible for major human rights violations in the occupied territories.
The proposal had Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak holding secret meetings with Leahy earlier this month, during which Barak demanded that the bill be withdrawn from consideration. It does not appear that it was successful.
Barak’s argument, apparently, was that Israel’s military has “broader powers” than the judiciary within the US military and that Palestinians are supposed to approach the military advocate general with complaints of abuse.
Leahy’s bill would oblige Israel to set up some system to ensure that its armed forces are not committing human rights violations. This restriction has been applied to Egypt, Pakistan and Jordan in US aid bills previously.
Good for Senator Leahy!
will he be fired or blacklisted or suicided for this? time will tell.
seriously look for a 'sex scandal' or something to come out of nowhere.
Yeah, good for him. It's a start, but not where we should be, that is zero dollars for the murderous israeli state.
Nothing about Egypt or Ethiopia? They receive aid and are brutal regimes. Only the "murderous" Jewish state? You people are so obvious. You never criticize anything else and overexaggerate what Israel does that you would expect your country to do at a minimum when constantly attacked by savages.
Do we give 4 billion dollars a year to Ethiopia? I wasn't aware of that. And the US only needs the suggestion that a country is a threat to Israel to commit its genocide. Otherwise we are very carful about who we treat brutally.
Did RickR30 claim we should give money to those states?
Furthermore, on a per capita basis, Israel gets at least an order of magnitude more money from us than Egypt does.
A trolling we will go…
First, you neglected to bring up the holocaust and how the rest of the world should feel sorry (and pay and pay and pay) for the Juden and what was done to them by savages…not to mention accept and justify what the Juden are doing now against another oppressed people.
And second, speaking of savages, there doesn't seem to be much difference in the level of savagery between the oppressors of the 1930s and those of the formerly oppressed in the 2010s.
Changing the topic doesn't absolve israel.
Antisemite flushed out. Lets see his bill to pull aid from Egypt, Ethiopia, etc who actually commit human rights violations.
LOL. "Pro-ethnic cleansing poster flushed out."
You're the only antisemite that keeps flushing himself out.
WAHHHHHHH! Rich prosperous Israel has to pay for its own security! Grow up! Get over it, ya cheap b*stards!! WAHHHHHHHH buncha whiny beggars
Wow, why is that that the "antiwar" web site is so full with hatered??! Or yea, thats right, its "progressive" to hate the Jews! You guys are such hypocrites!
what's so wrong about criticizing Israeli policies?
If you criticize the UK are you anti-Protestant?
If you criticize Mexico or Italy, are you antiRoman Catholic?
Get over the religious angle already, its kind of boring.
So much incessant negative noise from such a tiny extortionist country
Too bad Israel makes it so easy. Nary a positive word or article accompanies Israel in the news these days…why? Tell the Jewish controlled media to get on that STAT! More negative news about Ethiopia and Egypt! (lol)
Wherever the curtain is drawn back and Israel's true colors are shown, you will find angry peons defending Israel who live in a vacuum and compare Israel to behavior of 3rd world countries…is that really fair?
Trolls would have an easier time defending the merits of the USSR than modern Israel.
juvanya
“You never criticize anything else and overexaggerate what Israel does…”
Israel is a dictatorship, a brutal imperialism type dictatorship. Surely, and to give Israel the right of self-defense so that it can murder its enslaved victims with impunity, this makes dictatorship legal and democracy the joke of jokes.
Does anyone really believe that Leahy bill will ever pass in this present or future congress? Will it even be reportrd in the general press?
Thanks, Sen. Leahy, Finally we are moving to a right direction. Just recently on Russian TV I heard the news that 20% of American senators went to visit Israel, and the trip was totally paid by AIPAC for them and their spouses. Is it true? If so, how is it possible, what happens with the ethic and restrictions for gifts? It looks like a bribe actually. How those 20% could be objective in their decisions after all.
Pat feels pretty safe up in Vermont, doesn't he? But Mossad's reach is far and wide.
Let's all write to thank senator Leahy.
>Leahe will have to stand in the corner for this, facing the wall.
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.
With the current economic tsunami washing over us we have but this tiny sea wall to hold back the tide?
God help Senator Leahy for his patriotic stand against those corporate welfare bums in Israel. Perhaps this good man and great American can start waking up the treasonous other Congressmen who walk lock step to the tunes of Israeli banditry and the negative effect their treachery is having to the reputation of our once proud country. Israelis, AIPAC, neocons, all you worthless anti American bandits, you should all be ashamed of yourselves for biting the very hand that feeds you. Shame on you.