(Times of Israel) Rebecca Shimoni Stoil - Aaron David Miller, a former presidential advisor and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, said: "I think the odds of defunding [the PA] are higher than they ever were before. A whole new reality has now been created and I suspect that they are going to close any loopholes that may exist regarding the funding. The world in Washington is about to change." The funding bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama last month stipulates that no State Department economic support may be given to the PA if "the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court judicially authorized investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians." The ICC clause, Miller suggested, "is going to present a significant funding problem and the administration will probably not have any alternative but to comply."
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