California governor says US military aid to Israel must be conditioned

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Saturday that US military aid to Israel “has to be conditioned,” describing the position as increasingly becoming the Democratic Party’s consensus as he campaigns in New Hampshire ahead of a potential 2028 presidential run, Anadolu reports. “Aid has to be conditioned,” Newsom told the Washington Examiner, citing settler violence in the occupied West Bank and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, which he said undermine prospects for a two-state solution. “Bibi Netanyahu has done a remarkable job of really isolating himself from the rest of the world and increasingly from the American people,” Newsom said, adding that “the damage he’s done is incalculable.” Newsom called Israel’s war in Gaza a “moral catastrophe” but declined to […]