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. 2378d. 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 mikebeckles.com.