Ex-U.S. Envoy: Biden Should Stop Providing Weapons to New Zionist Leaders

WASHINGTON (KI) – The United States should no longer provide offensive weapons or military assistance to the Zionist regime’s incoming leaders for actions in Al-Quds and the West Bank, a former U.S. ambassador to the occupied territories and a former U.S. State Department negotiator said in an opinion piece published in The Washington Post on Wednesday.
Ex-diplomat Daniel Kurtzer and negotiator Aaron David Miller, both American Jews who have worked on the Arab-Zionist so-called peace process, wrote in The Post that the U.S. should warn against efforts to change the status of the West Bank, Temple Mount and settlement outposts.
With Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir as so-called national security minister and Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich as Finance Minister, Kurtzer and Miller expressed in The Post their fear that the incoming leaders will also foster increased settlement activity, settler violence, and loosened rules on the use of force by Zionist troops. Such actions would ostensibly lead to the end of any prospect of a solution.
Consequently, the former U.S. officials wrote that President Joe Biden’s administration should set terms to the occupying regime that it will not have any dealings with Ben-Gvir, Smotrich or their ministries, and that U.S. support for international forums such as the UN and international courts have limits.
Current U.S. leadership has been apprehensive about the role of Otzma Yehudit and RZP in the incoming Zionist leaders.
The Biden administration, at the beginning of coalition negotiations following the general election, called on Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint ministers that the U.S. could work with, Ynet reported.
Senator Robert Menendez, who has been extremely supportive of the Zionist regime during his political career, reportedly told Netanyahu that his partnership with an extremist leader could shatter support for the occupying regime in the United States.