I'm right. He's right.
[See usual suspects list of rabid fundamentalisms of various sorts, or ask Mike Pugliese for the urls, CG]
So the key question is `what is to be done?' And the answer is not `Let's have three more generations of war just for the hell of it.'
Brad DeLong
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Well, since you asked what is to be done, here's the answer, curtesy of the National Lawyers Guild report.
In the recommendations listed below, the AECA and FAA stand for Arms Export Control Act and Foreign Assistance Act. These US laws are intended to control the sale of weapons and economic assistance to foreign governments. There are various provisions that prohibit weapons and economic aid to governments which have a documented history of various violations and abuses of human and civil rights.
Chuck Grimes
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B. Recommendations
To avoid the United States' complicity in Israel's gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, encourage Israel's compliance with international law and federal statue, and ensure a just peace in the area, the delegation recommends the following:
(1) The NLG calls upon the President of the United States to immediately report to Congress that he has received information that a substantial violation of the AECA has occurred.
(2) The NLG calls upon the joint session of Congress to issue a report and determination that Israel has acted in substantial violation of the AECA and the FAA.
(3) The NLG calls upon the joint session of Congress to pass legislation suspending all current foreign assistance to Israel until Congress, in concert with the Executive Branch, has determined that Israel is no longer acting in violation of the AECA and the FAA.
(4) The NLG calls upon the joint session of Congress to pass legislation conditioning any future foreign military assistance on Israel's compliance with the AECA, the FAA and international law.
(5) The NLG calls upon the President of the United States to work with the U.N. Security Council in implementing the recommendations of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights contained in her report on the Al Aqsa Intifada. Specifically, the NLG calls upon the President to support the deployment of U.N. peacekeeping forces in the occupied Palestinian territories.
(6) The NLG calls upon the joint session of Congress to establish an independent commission to monitor Israel's compliance with the AECA and FAA.
(7) The NLG calls upon the joint session of Congress to pass legislation conditioning any future foreign economic aid to Israel on the passage of laws designed to better protect the civil rights of Palestinian and other non-Jewish citizens of Israel and to equalize (proportionally) the provisions of government resources provided to Jewish populations with non-Jewish minority populations in Israel.
(8) The NLG calls upon the joint session of Congress to pass legislation establishing a U.S. Agency for International Development in Israel to monitor the current and future use of United States economic aid to Israel