Drafter of Leahy law says it was never applied to Israel
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Following immense pressure from Israel and its most fervent supporters, the Biden administration announced recently that it will keep giving weapons to five Israeli units that had committed “gross violations of human rights,” including a notorious battalion whose soldiers killed an elderly Palestinian-American man in the West Bank in 2022.The decision drew sharp backlash from legal analysts and former officials, who noted that the State Department’s own experts had found the units in violation...

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