Senator Brian Schatz
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And I, for one, am willing to readjust
in the direction of reestablishing a security partnership if they behave well.
Now, I don't really have a lot of hope with Smotrich and Ben-Gavir there.
I don't really have a lot of hope with Netanyahu there.
But I think that if we are to reestablish this idea that Israel
and the United States are partners, we have to behave like partners.
And I don't think this is a never more, we're never going to work with you again.
It depends who is in charge of the government of Israel.
Right now, it's people who are explicitly talking about ethnic cleansing.
Right now, it is people who are supporting all of these violent settlers and the kind of commandeering of land and
and other resources from Palestinians in the West Bank.
And so count me out of that.
But if there is a new Israel and if there is a new policy as it relates to Israel, then I'm very interested in what that would look like.
But right now, my view is as long as Bibi Netanyahu is in charge of Israel, I'm very, very unlikely to change my position.
I mean I don't want to get into like whether it's a super PAC or whether it's a – here's what I would say.
I think that a PAC –
15 years ago, um, used to be a broadly bipartisan organization.
You could disagree with them or agree with them.
Um, but they were broadly bipartisan.