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A2: Kerry--Israel/Palestine DA

Non-unique and link-turn: Peace is impossible BEA!"E o# !$"$ in%ol%ement$

&adar, C. '2/('/(). The Nation: Why Bankrolling Israel Prevents Peace in the Middle East.htt:!!""".thenation.co#!article!$%&'((!"ashingtons)#ilitary)aid)israel. Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in Ne" *ork and the a+thor o

The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower-erso/. The Nationis the oldest contin+o+sly +0lished "eekly

#aga1ine in the 2nited 3tates,The eriodical, devoted to olitics and c+lt+re, is sel)descri0ed as 4the lagshi o the let.4

))5ake Peace Process, 6eal War Process))Today, 3ecretary o 3tate 7ohn8erry is leading a +sh or a rene"ed ro+nd o the

inter#ina0le 9#erican)led eace rocess in the region that has 0een +nder"ay since the #id)$(%s. It;s hardly a 0old rediction

to s+ggest thatt*is round+ too+ ,ill #ail$ The Israeli #inister o deense, Moshe *a;alon, has already +0licly

#ocked 8erry in his 9ter all, thedeense #inister kno"s that Washington "ill "ield no stick and that 0+shels o carrots are in the oing, "hether Israel rolls 0ack or redo+0les its

land sei1+res and coloni1ation eorts. President =0a#a has 0oasted that the 23 has never given so #+ch #ilitary aid to Israel as +nder his

residency. =n 7an+ary '(, the ?o+se 5oreign 9airs Co##ittee voted +nani#o+sly to +grade Israel;s stat+s to #a@or strategic artner.it* on.ress and t*e president .uaranteein. t*at unprecedented le%els o# military aid ,ill

continue to #lo,+ Israel *as no real incenti%e to c*an.e its be*a%ior$ 2s+ally s+ch dilo#atic i#asses are 0la#edon the Palestinians, 0+t given ho" little is let to s Intelligent eole can and do disagree a0o+t a one)state

vers+s a t"o)state sol+tion or Israel and Palestine. Peole o good"ill disagree a0o+t the glo0al BA3 ca#aign. B+tit is *ard to

ima.ine ,*at kind o# pro.ress can e%er be made to,ard a ust and lastin. settlement bet,een

Israel and Palestine until as*in.ton quits armin. one side to t*e teet*$0I# it ,eren1t #or !"

support #or Israel+ t*is con#lict ,ould *a%e been resol%ed a lon. time a.o+ says 7osh 6+e0ner. Will "e9#ericans ever ackno"ledge o+r govern#ent;s active role in destroying the chances or a @+st and lasting eace 0et"een Palestine and Israel>

Non-unique: !$"$ #undin. o# Israel1s military and Palestine1s security #orces pre%ents peace$

&adar, C. '2/('/(). The Nation: Why Bankrolling Israel Prevents Peace in the Middle East.htt:!!""".thenation.co#!article!$%&'((!"ashingtons)#ilitary)aid)israel. Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney in Ne" *ork and the a+thor o

The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story behind the Wikileaks Whistleblower-erso/. The Nationis the oldest contin+o+sly +0lished "eekly

#aga1ine in the 2nited 3tates,The eriodical, devoted to olitics and c+lt+re, is sel)descri0ed as 4the lagshi o the let.4

Pro.ress can1t be made to,ard a ust settlement bet,een Israel and Palestine until as*in.ton

quits armin. one side to t*e teet*. We 9#ericans have +nny notions a0o+t oreign aid. 6ecent olls sho" that, on average, "e0elieve '& ercent o the ederal 0+dget is eaten + 0y it, and that, in a ti#e o a+sterity, this gigantic 0ite o the 0+dget sho+ld 0e c+t 0ack to $ercent. In act+al act, 0arely $ ercent o the ederal 0+dget goes to oreign aid o any kind. In this case, ho"ever, tr+th is at least as strange as

iction. Consider thatthe to reciient o 23 oreign aid over the ast three decades isn;t so#e i#overishedland illed "ith starving kids, 0+t a "ealthy nation "ith a er)head gross do#estic rod+ct on ar "ith the E+roean 2nionaverage, and higher than that o Italy, 3ain or 3o+th 8orea. Consider also that this to reciient o s+ch aidnearly all o it #ilitary since '&

has 0een 0+sily engaged in "hat looks like a nineteenth)cent+ry)style coloni1ation ro@ect. In the late $(s,o+r 0eneiciary eDelled so#e %, indigeno+s eole ro# the land it "as clai#ing. In $(%, o+r client sei1ed so#e contig+o+s ieces o real

estate and ever since has 0een coloni1ing these territories "ith nearly F, o its o"n eole.It has divided the con))Military 9id to Israel))9r#ing and 0ankrolling a "ealthy nation acting in this "ay #ay, on its ace, see# like terri0le

olicy. *et 9#erican aid has 0een lo"ing to Israel in ever greater

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ro# tear gas canisters to 5)$ ighter @ets. In their '&)'( assa+lt on Ga1a, the Israeli Aeense 5orces

#ade +se o M)(' and M)&d+#0 0o#0s, Pave"ay IIand 7A9M g+ideds#art 0o#0s, 9?) 9acheattack

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#ove#ent -BA3/ led 0y Palestinian civil society to ress+re Israel into a @+st and lasting eace. B+t "hen it co#es to "hat 9#ericans are #ost

resonsi0le orall that lavish #ilitary aid and dilo#atic cover or one side only"hat yo+ get is either e+he#is# or an evasive silence. In

general, the 9#erican #edia tends to treat o+r ar#ing o Israel as art o the nat+ral order o the +niverse,

as 0eyond