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Friday, January 9, 2015

Could congressional sanctions on Palestinians backfire for Israel?


January 09, 2015

Could congressional sanctions on Palestinians backfire for Israel?

By Josh Ruebner, contributor

In their unstinting zeal to safeguard Israel's stranglehold over the Palestinians, members of Congress may have inadvertently set the stage for the materialization of Israel's nightmare scenario: the collapse of the Palestinian Authority (PA). As the new 114th Congress gets underway, here's how the law of unintended consequences could unfold over the next few years.
In the consolidated appropriations bill passed last month, Congress renewed a provision that would cut off all economic assistance to the PA if "the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court [ICC] judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians."

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