Andrew Sullivan, a leading American blogger and increasing critic of Israel, mirroring the justified mood of the times:
I’d cut off aid myself – because they don’t need it and we cannot afford it – not as a pressure tactic. But even if you did, the key issue seems to me to be the UN veto. Until the US stops protecting Israel from isolation in the Security Council, the US’s foreign policy and Israel’s Palestinian policy are inextricable from one another.