SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: If Americans genuinely want to end “endless wars,” they need to confront the root cause, n

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Reza Nasri

Trump’s promise to end America’s wars never materialized. The rhetoric changed, but the machinery of intervention remained intact. If Americans genuinely want to end “endless wars,” they need to confront the root cause, not just the symptoms and dismantle the legal and political structures that keep dragging U.S. foreign policy into repeated conflicts. Below are the laws and policies Americans should demand be rescinded if they are serious about emancipating U.S. foreign policy from Israel’s toxic and disproportionate influence: The exceptionalist treatment of Israel in U.S. law and policy is engineered through a dense web of statutes, executive arrangements, selective non-enforcement, and lobbying loopholes that together guarantee unconditional, unaccountable support. This is not normal alliance behavior. It is codified favoritism that overrides human-rights standards, distorts arms policy, and shields a foreign state from scrutiny applied to every other country. Ending it requires direct political pressure to dismantle the legal and policy pillars that sustain it: 1- Repeal the “Qualitative Military Edge” (QME) Mandates: These laws legally bind U.S. policy to maintaining Israel’s regional military dominance. Every arms sale to the Middle East is filtered through Israel’s advantage. No other country on Earth enjoys such a guarantee. This must be repealed in full. 2- Enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA): Powerful pro-Israel lobbying groups operate without the transparency required of other foreign-influence networks. The Department of Justice must be compelled to act, or Congress must close the loophole. 3-End the Nuclear “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy: A secret executive policy forbids U.S. officials from acknowledging Israel’s nuclear arsenal. This gag order undermines global nonproliferation standards and exempts Israel from laws applied to every other nuclear state. Declassify it. End it. 4- Terminate Special Foreign Military Financing (FMF) Privileges: Billions in guaranteed, largely unconditional aid—locked in through long-term agreements—flow to Israel under terms no other country receives. 5- Enforce Existing Human-Rights Laws Without Exception: Statutes like the Leahy Law already prohibit aid to foreign forces implicated in serious abuses. They are enforced worldwide, except here. This double standard must end. 6- Repeal Anti-BDS Measures Laws punishing Americans for boycotting Israel attack core First Amendment rights and shield one country from peaceful political pressure. These measures are unconstitutional in principle and must be struck down. This system of exceptionalism is not inevitable. It is the product of deliberate political choices and it can be undone by deliberate political action. No other country benefits from this combination of legal privilege, financial entitlement, and immunity from accountability. Ending it would would simply restore the rule of law, consistency, and basic national sovereignty in U.S. foreign policy.

3:51 AM · Mar 29, 2026