Washington, June 12 -- Congressman Joaquin Castro issued the following press release:
Today, Congressman Joaquin Castro (TX-20), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led 42 lawmakers in demanding that the State Department comply with U.S. law to provide transparency on how much Israel is spending on settlement activity.
For over twenty years, U.S. law has required conditions on loan guarantees to Israel, limiting this assistance to within Israel's pre-1967 borders, and reducing amounts made available for loan guarantees by the amount of Israel's public expenditures on illegal settlements in the W...