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Elizabeth Warren threatens to withhold US aid from Israel - if it doesn't give up land

Posted: Oct 21st, 2019 - 5:08 pm

INDIANOLA, Iowa — Elizabeth Warren issued a warning to Israel if it continues building settlements in the West Bank.

The Massachusetts senator was asked after a town hall in Iowa whether she was open to making U.S. aid conditional on an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt construction in a territory Israel won in a defensive war in 1967, which is home to about 3 million Palestinians and roughly 400,000 Jews.

"Right now, Netanyahu says that he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements. That does not move us toward a two-state solution. 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, everything's on the table," she told reporters at Simpson College in Indianola on Sunday.

Israel took over the West Bank from Jordan in 1967 after winning the Six-Day War. In his recent reelection bid, Netanyahu pledged to annex “all the settlements” in the West Bank to shore up Israeli nationalist votes ahead of September's voting. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin then selected Netanyahu to form a coalition government.

Netanyahu on Monday announced he couldn't strike a deal with lawmakers in the country to establish a majority in its parliament, leading observers to speculate Rivlin will ask Netanyahu's rival, Benny Gantz, to form the next government.

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Elizabeth Warren threatens to withhold US aid from Israel - if it doesn't give up land (Views: 409, 2019-10-21, 5:08 pm)
- Don’t we call this Quid Pro Quo??Joe Biden approves - of this approach and wants to know (Views: 259, 2019-10-21, 5:10 pm)
  - Do you know how Israel got this 'land'? - It was stolen... (Views: 287, 2019-10-22, 4:44 am)
    - No it did not. This is a myth. There was at one time a - region called Palestine. Roman (Views: 333, 2019-10-22, 5:02 am)
      - Palestine is from Philistines, who were orginally thought - to be from the Aegean, likely Crete (Views: 275, 2019-10-22, 5:13 am)
    - So how do you explain all the ancient Israeli artifacts - found in Jerusalem dating back (Views: 264, 2019-10-22, 5:06 am)
    - Yasser Arafat created Palestinians out of thin air in 1967. - Before that they were Jordanian (Views: 249, 2019-10-22, 5:10 am)
    - Here's a history of the founding of Israel - in 1948. (Views: 285, 2019-10-22, 5:52 am)
      - It was given to them by the UN. Stop calling people - ignorant. (Views: 361, 2019-10-22, 5:55 am)
        So it was given to the new state of Israel - by the UN (Views: 294, 2019-10-22, 6:17 am)
        Maybe I should not have used the phrase - 'ignorant of' and (Views: 278, 2019-10-23, 4:45 am)
      - Who wrote this? It only says editors, no name. - nm (Views: 254, 2019-10-22, 6:06 am)
        Written by History Channel - writers...NM (Views: 280, 2019-10-22, 6:20 am)
      - I don't know about the History Channel. I will never - forget waiting excitedly to see (Views: 276, 2019-10-22, 6:13 am)
      - Here's another history of the founding of - Israel that starts in (Views: 320, 2019-10-22, 6:29 am)
  - Not if Congress - approves it (Views: 280, 2019-10-22, 7:51 am)
- She has absolutely no authority to give a warning to - Israel about anything. (Views: 277, 2019-10-21, 5:12 pm)
  - Last I heard, we had a right to express an - opinion in the US... (Views: 300, 2019-10-22, 4:40 am)
    - And we all have a right to comment on what she said. - What's the problem? (Views: 285, 2019-10-22, 5:36 am)
      - The problem is she did not threaten to - withhold aid... (Views: 289, 2019-10-22, 5:42 am)
  - She's just carrying Hillary's water..."Israeli settlement - growth must stop".... (Views: 349, 2019-10-22, 5:26 am)
- Where in the linked article did she say - that? (Views: 264, 2019-10-22, 4:36 am)