WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – U.S. Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib has called for stopping unconditional U.S. financial aid to the Zionist apartheid regime, especially after the rise of the far right to power, The Palestinian Information Centre reports.
Tlaib made her remarks on the sidelines of her speech to a Congressional session that was broadcast recently by American television stations.
The lawmaker called on the Palestinian human rights groups in the U.S., citizens of Palestinian origin and the Arab and Muslim communities to send more emails to members of Congress who represent their areas to urge them to make efforts to stop financial and military support for the occupying regime.
She also called on rights groups and activists in the country to move urgently to support the Palestinian people in their struggle against the occupying regime.
The plea comes amid heightened tensions between the Zionist regime and Palestinians.
A Zionist legislator from the right-wing Likud political party has announced that he is working on proposing a bill to annex the strategic Jordan Valley, which comprises a third of the occupied West Bank, despite the international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in Palestinian territories.
The bill put forward by Danny Danon, a former Zionist ambassador to the United Nations, intends to achieve the “full application of Israeli law to all areas of the Jordan Valley,” including industrial and archaeological sites as well as main roads.
It remains unclear when the bill would be proposed to the regime’s parliament, or Knesset.
The occupying regime’s parliament swore in Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister in December. He formed what many consider to be the most extremist administration in the regime’s history, including ministers living in illegal settlements in the West Bank.
Netanyahu’s hardline cabinet has made the announcement that it will put settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank at the top of its list of priorities.
About 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Al-Quds.