From the Telegraph:
American lawmakers said they were blocking US funding for Lebanon's military after a deadly border clash last week between Lebanon and Israel.Two key Democrats, Nita Lowey and Howard Berman, announced they were holding up $100 million (£63 million) that has been approved for Lebanon's army but not yet spent.
A senior House Republican, Eric Cantor, said future funding should be stopped too, pending an inquiry.
Both white phosphorous Democrats who ought to be deported to the land they represent.
See how easy it is to make US aid conditional? We do it well, with one exception, always the same exception. Too bad the great majority of Americans think foreign policy is no skin off their backs. It’s hardly a subject
at the tea parties despite the fact the original tea party was ALL about foreign policy. Perhaps the fallout from a good war on Iran will make a handful of them adjust their priorities.
Dangerous move, to show everyone just how easy it is to tie up the purse strings on a country that pisses us off!
Actually, ironically, this isn’t BDS. This is, of course, exactly what Witty tried to frame actual BDS as — an attempt to shun a whole group of people and make associating with them illegal based essentially on racial terms.
Think he’ll come around and condemn this?