Israel aid supplemental critical for long-term defense, possible second front, experts say

Jonathan Lord, senior fellow and director of the Middle East security program at the Center for a New American Security, told JNS that the Van Hollen amendment, though largely toothless, sends a damaging message to U.S. partners and allies like Israel.

“There isn’t any operative language here that goes beyond what exists in standing law in the Arms Export Control Act or the Foreign Assistance Act, but the message here is unhelpful and self-defeating,” Lord said.

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Lord said that those who are skeptical that Washington can support both Israel and Ukraine are underestimating American strength.

“The country that built up a military and dropped in on Europe to save the world from fascism in 1944 can do big things,” he said. “We just need to demonstrate the political will and the aptitude to realize that those things over there do, can and will affect us at home, and we need to stand with our partners.”

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