{"id":1052482,"date":"2024-03-07T23:01:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1052482"},"modified":"2024-03-17T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T22:13:36","slug":"democrat-warns-us-is-violating-aid-conditions-law-by-sending-money-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/politics\/democrat-warns-us-is-violating-aid-conditions-law-by-sending-money-to-israel","title":{"rendered":"Democrat warns US is violating aid conditions law by sending money to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Democratic senator has warned that the US may have violated its own laws around foreign aid by sending arms to Israel.Patrick Leahy, a former Senator from Vermont, is best known for championing his namesake Leahy Law, which refers to two statutory provisions that prevent the federal government from using funds to assist foreign governments when there is credible information that they have committed &#8220;gross violations of human rights&#8221;.When The Independent asked the former senator if the US sending aid to Israel complies with the law, his answer was clear: &#8220;No. Is that succinct enough for you?&#8221;Mr Leahy, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired Democratic senator has warned that the US may have violated its own laws around foreign aid by sending arms to Israel.Patrick Leahy, a former Senator from Vermont, is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}