U.S. Finalizes Deal to Give Israel $38 Billion in Military Aid
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/world/middleeast/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-military-aid.html
Critics of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians said the United States was effectively subsidizing operations it regularly criticized.
“We are helping the Israelis sustain the costs of the #occupation we claim is unsustainable,” said Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a group advocating Palestinian rights.
“The whole policy is outdated,” he added. “It goes back to an era when there were major Arab-Israeli wars and when Israel was in a very different place economically. Those conditions no longer exist, even though the occupation does, and it is high time we address our complicity in it.”