It was only a matter of time.
The Taylor Force Act, which demands that the PLO stop funding terror or lose US taxpayer cash, is picking up steam. So the usual anti-Israel crowd is crawling into action.
Obama's errand boy to Israel, Dan Shapiro and Ilan Goldenberg, who describes himself as a "former deep stater" on his Twitter profile, have a call to neuter it in Foreign Policy. The game plan is everything you would expect.
Warn about "instability" if the terrorists don't get their cash. Cite Israeli lefties who warn against it. And then suggest a "national security waiver". That waiver is why the embassy still isn't in Jerusalem.
Also there are warnings that the US wouldn't be able to provide "humanitarian aid" to Gaza the next time Hamas gets bombed. And, worst of all, the terrorists might stop accepting our money to train their terrorists.
This is an actual argument that Shapiro and Goldenberg make.
"But if security assistance is the only U.S. support that remains, and no other economic benefits for the Palestinians materialize, then it becomes politically much more difficult for the Palestinian leadership to accept these funds and continue the program."
If we don't give the terrorists more money to shove into their Swiss bank accounts under the guise of "improving life for Palestinians", they won't take our money to train their terrorists.
This isn't an argument. This is a Monty Python skit. But what else would one expect from the author of “Why Israel's Settlement Construction Must Be Stopped” and “How Israel Brought U.N. Resolution on Itself With Irrational Settlement Push"