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December 10, 2018

Rand Paul’s Confused Effort to Interfere with Congressional Support for Israel

A “grandstanding obstructionist.”

Currently Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, is holding up two bills that otherwise enjoy wide bipartisan backing. One authorizes $38 billion in security aid to Israel over the next ten years; the other simply expresses approval of state and local measures denying government contracts to businesses that boycott the Jewish state. The editors of the Weekly Standard dissect the senator’s position:

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