Top Democrat Challenges Decades of US Military Support to Israel

Rahm Emanuel, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, called in Tel Aviv on July 8 for the US to end its $3.8 billion annual military subsidy to Israel and sanction settler extremists. The demand breaks past Democratic calls for conditional aid, directly confronting the bipartisan defense architecture undergirding US-Israel relations since the 1970s. Emanuel also faulted Netanyahu for pursuing an unsustainable diplomatic course.