U.S. says it will not change policy on arms transfers to Israel despite ‘dire’ Gaza humanitarian crisis
Roth, who is now a visiting professor at Princeton University, warned that now, with the Biden administration on its way out and Trump, a strong ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on his way in, it is unlikely that Netanyahu will be feeling much pressure to fulfill the requirements outlined by Washington.
“The Netanyahu government is thumbing its nose at the Biden administration,” Roth said, calling it “a predictable result of the Biden administration setting its ultimatum for a compliance date after the U.S. election.”
“Now that Trump has won, Netanyahu can just wait out any cutoff of (military) aid, counting on Trump to restore in it a couple of months,” he said.
On Nov. 4, the day before the U.S. election, the Biden administration said Israel had so far “failed” to do enough to improve access to aid in Gaza.
“Failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment to implementing and maintaining these measures may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20 and relevant U.S. law,” the U.S. secretaries warned according to a source familiar with the letter. The source verified the contents of the letter as first reported by Axios.
