WASHINGTON – Three in four US senators pledged not to support assistance to the Palestinian Authority until the Obama administration reviews the admittance of Palestine to the International Criminal Court.
“Current law prohibits economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians initiate an ICC investigation of Israeli nationals or ‘actively support such an investigation,’” said the letter sent Thursday by 75 senators to Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Although we believe it is in the interest of the United States for urgent humanitarian assistance to continue to be provided to the Palestinian people, we will not support assistance to the Palestinian Authority while you undertake a review of this matter,” it said.
It is not clear that the Palestinian Authority violated US law with its actions. The ICC prosecutor, not the Palestinians, initiated the preliminary examination of whether crimes were committed during last summer’s Gaza war, and a formal investigation has yet to be launched. Typically it takes years for examinations to become investigations.
However, some legal experts argue that by granting the ICC jurisdiction in its territory, the Palestinian Authority may be legally understood to have “initiated” an investigation.
The exemption in the letter for humanitarian assistance “to the Palestinian people” means much of the $500 million in annual US aid will likely continue, although a cutoff could affect security assistance for the Palestinians.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee praised the letter, which was initiated by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
“The Palestinian effort to seek an ICC investigation of Israel is a direct attempt to delegitimize Israel’s right to self-defense against Hamas terror,” the lobby said in a statement.
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“Current law prohibits economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians initiate an ICC investigation of Israeli nationals or ‘actively support such an investigation,’”
Slaughter them, level their homes, starve them, steal their water, deprive them of electricity, sewage, and human rights–that’s right, American Knesset. Serve your Master. Crush these human beings, these PALESTINIANS, like cockroaches. But you will answer for it on Judgment Day.
Did not see the following Senators’s signatures:
(CA)Feinstein✡
(CA)Boxer✡
(VT)Leahy
(VT)Sanders✡
(AZ)McCain
(NV)Reid
(PA)Toomey
Didn’t consider Feinstein, Boxer, Sanders, or McCain ‘friends of Palestine’ until today.
/sarc
Yes, the ‘progressive’ Independent from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is a flaming Zionist. Bernie had at least one elderly white constituent arrested for a disagreement over Operation Protective Edge during a town hall meeting. Nearly the entire crowd of elderly disagreed with the Zionist view and Senator Patrick Leahy’s non-signature would appear to confirm.
Did not see the following Senators’ signatures:
(CA)Feinstein✡
(CA)Boxer✡
(VT)Leahy
(VT)Sanders✡
(AZ)McCain
(NV)Reid
(PA)Toomey
Didn’t consider Feinstein, Boxer, Sanders, or McCain ‘friends of Palestine’ until today.
/sarc
Yes, the ‘progressive’ Independent from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is a flaming Zionist. Bernie had at least one elderly white constituent arrested for a disagreement over Operation Protective Edge during a town hall meeting. Nearly the entire crowd of elderly disagreed with the Zionist view and Senator Patrick Leahy’s non-signature would appear to confirm.
The Jews keep people trapped in their LEFT/RIGHT System. The Gentile world is divided,and sent into circles,or two wings of the Zionist Prison. Ideology is for the Goyim to fight over. This is how Ultra reactionary conservative racist,Imperialist Churchill ,could be allied with Liberal FDR,and Communist Stalin,to defeat the AXIS,or Bush (Right),could work with Blair,(Left) unity for the Iraq war. Today, all temporal factions, are Judiac Constructs. Their materialist ideologies, united in support of the Jewish Agenda. “War Crimes ‘,courts where only created to protect Jews. They are ‘humanity’,and nobody else.
It is illegal to aid Israel according to the US Law.
“Current law prohibits economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority if the Palestinians initiate an ICC investigation of Israeli nationals or ‘actively support such an investigation,’”
Check out this law….
http://thebilzerianreport.com/us-aid-to-israel-is-illegal-according-to-us-law/
Slaughter them, level their homes, starve them, steal their water, deprive them of electricity, sewage, and human rights–that’s right, American Knesset. Serve your Master. Crush these human beings, these PALESTINIANS, like cockroaches. But you will answer for it on Judgment Day.
The execrable pos produced by “our senate” can be viewed here – http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=72123469-50ce-4d35-972e-4d8ff013d000
Did not see the following Senators’s signatures:
(CA)Feinstein✡
(CA)Boxer✡
(VT)Leahy
(VT)Sanders✡
(AZ)McCain
(NV)Reid
(PA)Toomey
Didn’t consider Feinstein, Boxer, Sanders, or McCain ‘friends of Palestine’ until today.
/sarc
Yes, the ‘progressive’ Independent from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is a flaming Zionist. Bernie had at least one elderly white constituent arrested for a disagreement over Operation Protective Edge during a town hall meeting. Nearly the entire crowd of elderly disagreed with the Zionist view and Senator Patrick Leahy’s non-signature would appear to confirm.
Did not see the following Senators’ signatures:
(CA)Feinstein✡
(CA)Boxer✡
(VT)Leahy
(VT)Sanders✡
(AZ)McCain
(NV)Reid
(PA)Toomey
Didn’t consider Feinstein, Boxer, Sanders, or McCain ‘friends of Palestine’ until today.
/sarc
Yes, the ‘progressive’ Independent from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, is a flaming Zionist. Bernie had at least one elderly white constituent arrested for a disagreement over Operation Protective Edge during a town hall meeting. Nearly the entire crowd of elderly disagreed with the Zionist view and Senator Patrick Leahy’s non-signature would appear to confirm.
The Jews keep people trapped in their LEFT/RIGHT System. The Gentile world is divided,and sent into circles,or two wings of the Zionist Prison. Ideology is for the Goyim to fight over. This is how Ultra reactionary conservative racist,Imperialist Churchill ,could be allied with Liberal FDR,and Communist Stalin,to defeat the AXIS,or Bush (Right),could work with Blair,(Left) unity for the Iraq war. Today, all temporal factions, are Judiac Constructs. Their materialist ideologies, united in support of the Jewish Agenda. “War Crimes ‘,courts where only created to protect Jews. They are ‘humanity’,and nobody else.
It is illegal to aid Israel according to the US Law.