My apologies, I meant to say no one in Congress.
I don't know what rockets are made of so I don't know if it's coming from foreign aid, but given that Israel bans any and all "double-use" aid I don't see that being possible.
Metal and/or PVC pipes and concrete or cement with a variety of common construction explosives or common chemicals used as rocket fuel. A.K.A the supplies needed to build homes add baisc plumbing and build irrigation networks for desert farming.
Yeah that's just indefensible.
Read through this thread, it's being defended.
What do you mean you can't find anything about that deal! Did you Google it, the info is easily findable.
Also one of Palestine's demands was sovereignty over the entire West Bank and Gaza strip,
They got it over the Gaza strip!
The 2004 deal was orchestrated by the left wing coalition I'm Israel. They said if we go down the path of the Oslo Accords, down a 2 state solution path, there will be peace. Gaza was their way to prove it.
The second infintada was an objective failure for Gaza. It's what caused their border with Egypt to be closed, and the Blockade to be put in place. It stopped millions of cross border employees from the West Bank and Gaza which further impoverished the Palestinian people. It's led to a whole generation of Israeli school children with PTSD from constant rocket attacks who will likely never support Pro-Palestinian policies. It's also marked the turning point in US polling where the majority of Americans. Additionally, because both Democrat Bill Clinton (Oslo Accords, that Palestine pulled out of) and Republican George Bush (Gaza Strip Deal) had invested significant political capital on pushing Israel to accept concessions in return for peace it also marked the beginning of an era in American politics where no Palestinian leader could be seen as trustworthy, and since then no President or party has made peace between Israel and Palestine a focus of their administrations.
The West Bank isn't attacking Israel, Gaza is. There's no Jewish settlers in the Gaza strip.
That's not the only difference. I distinctly don't remember a time where Israeli soldiers dragged slaves through Tel Aviv to the cheers of a Jewish population.
What they have is because of a good faith effort by Israeli's left wing parties to broker a "prove-it" peace deal in Gaza. In Gaza, they gave up every single demand that Palestine had for the West Bank as a whole as a way to prove domestically that such an outcome would lead to peace.
So tell me, what did Palestine demand in the Oslo Accords that they didn't get in the Gaza deal?
They're also subjected to a blockade that's turning the country into an open-air prison.
And now you see why. With the aid that did get through instead of improving the lives of it's citizens, Hamas choose to invest in a strike force and rockets to attack and enslaved Israelis.
They also have a border with Egypt that's closed, not by Israel but by Egypt because of their countries actions.
There's more reasons for Gazans to fight Israel
Hamas isn't meeting Israel on an open field or even targeting military and logistical sites (roads, bridges, airports etc....) in a guerilla campaign. Their raiding Israel for slaves, and raping and killing the captives like it's 2000 years ago.
Nothing I can imagine, Hamas could have chosen to do could justify the blockade and Israel's past actions more than what they did.
Gaza receives enough aid money where nobody in Gaza should be poor or hungry. The structure of how that aid is disbursed is the primary reason Gazans are poor.
The blockade came in response to massive building of rockets instead of aid use for good.
That's not how a default will likely look. Objectively we could rework our spending to put us in a position to pay off our national debt over the next Century; but we're not going to. It's going to continue to rise faster than inflation until the realpolitik cost of default is less than the cost of the interest.