Why Is The Leahy Law Not Applicable To Israel?

The Leahy Amendment allows the United States to main­tain tight con­trol over nations it loans mon­ey to or extends its largess to — – except the geno­ci­dal socio­path­ic pari­ah state of Israel.
The Law bears the name of Vermont’s Democratic US Senator, Patrick Leahy, who served from 1975 to 2023. 
A brief Google search for the Leahy Amendment turns up the fol­low­ing: The “Leahy Laws” pro­hib­it U.S. assis­tance to for­eign secu­ri­ty force units when cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion exists that the unit has com­mit­ted a “gross vio­la­tion of human rights” (GVHR). Pursuant to the laws, the U.S. gov­ern­ment vets poten­tial recip­i­ents for infor­ma­tion about GVHR involve­ment before pro­vid­ing assistance.

The term “Leahy law” refers to two statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions pro­hibit­ing the U.S. Government from using funds for assis­tance to units of for­eign secu­ri­ty forces where there is cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion impli­cat­ing that unit in the com­mis­sion of gross human rights vio­la­tions (GVHR). One statu­to­ry pro­vi­sion applies to the State Department, and the oth­er applies to the Department of Defense. The State Department Leahy law was made per­ma­nent under sec­tion 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, 22 U.S.C. 2378^d. The U.S. gov­ern­ment con­sid­ers tor­ture, extra­ju­di­cial killing, enforced dis­ap­pear­ance, and rape under col­or of law as GVHRs when imple­ment­ing the Leahy law. Incidents are exam­ined on a fact-spe­cif­ic basis. The State Department Leahy law includes an excep­tion per­mit­ting the resump­tion of assis­tance to a unit if the Secretary of State deter­mines and reports to Congress that the gov­ern­ment of the coun­try is tak­ing effec­tive steps to bring the respon­si­ble mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces unit to jus­tice. (US Department of State.

There is no ques­tion about the clar­i­ty of the law, as it relates to how American tax dol­lars can be used to aid for­eign Governments- yet the law, for some rea­son, does not apply to the apartheid geno­ci­dal state of Israel in its con­tin­ued slaugh­ter of inno­cent men women and chil­dren in Gaza Palestine…
It is time for the American pub­lic to devel­op a sense of right and wrong and move away from the old dis­cred­it­ed idea that they are supe­ri­or, excep­tion­al, or oth­er­wise bet­ter than any oth­er peo­ple on our planet.
The con­tin­ued embrac­ing of the afore­men­tioned pro­pa­gan­dis­tic ideals is a clear indi­ca­tion of brain­wash­ing and, worse, a sense that those who hold such views are indeed ignoramuses.
It is past time that the American pub­lic real­izes that main­tain­ing the hypocrisy that allows Israel to manip­u­late them into doing injus­tice to oth­er peo­ple means it is on a con­tin­ued path to ille­git­i­ma­cy as a nation, much the same way Israel has become a world­wide pari­ah iso­lat­ed in a cacoon of its own twist­ed sense of legitimacy.
Please remem­ber that in 1947, when American President Harry Truman autho­rized the peo­ple flee­ing Adolph Hitler to set­tle on Palestinian land, the peo­ple of Palestine wel­comed them with cheers and open arms.
This was a fatal mis­take on the part of the Palestinian people.
Their acts of kind­ness cost them their homes, land, free­dom, and lives. Their kind­ness was syn­ony­mous with fool­ish­ly pick­ing up a poi­so­nous snake and embrac­ing it.
In the end, a snake is a snake; it will sting because that’s what snakes do.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.