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Joint Press Release - The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land

TANZANIA AND ISRAEL TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH SECTORS The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has stated that Israel has been an important partner across various sectors, including agriculture, health, defense, and security, contributing to the strengthening of longstanding bilateral relations between the two countries. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation, Hon. Mahmoud Thabit Kombo (MP), made these remarks at the Ministry’s sub-office in Dar es Salaam while receiving copies of the credentials of the Ambassador-Designate of Israel to Tanzania, Hon. Gideon Behar, resident in Nairobi, Kenya. Minister Kombo congratulated Ambassador Behar on his appointment and assured him of the Government’s full cooperation throughout his tenure. He also commended Israel’s MASHAV program for providing practical agricultural training to Tanzanian youth on farms in Israel. He further proposed that Israeli experts visit Tanzania to offer direct training in local agricultural institutions, including the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA). He noted that Israel has also been a key partner in strengthening healthcare services, particularly through pediatric cardiac surgery camps, under which more than 2,440 patients—including 45 children with heart conditions—have received life-saving operations through this cooperation. Amb. Behar reaffirmed Israel’s readiness to continue strengthening and expanding cooperation with Tanzania across various fields, including economic and diplomatic relations, for the mutual benefit of both nations. He also emphasized the importance of enhancing collaboration in science and technology to develop skilled professionals who will contribute to the advancement of both countries.

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 Below are the laws and policies Americans should demand be rescinded if they are serious about emancipating U.S. foreign policy from Israel’s toxic and disproportionate influence: The exceptionalist treatment of Israel in U.S.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.