By Michael Arria

October 22, 2019 "Information Clearing House" -  Last month, the progressive think tank Data for Progress released report showing that a net majority of Democratic voters are receptive to the idea of cutting aid to Israel in order to curb their human rights violations.

These statistics certainly didn’t line up with the Beltway consensus on the issue, where it’s assumed that touching the issue could amount to political suicide. When the report was published, only two presidential candidates had floated such an idea: South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who said he’d block any funding that might be used to annex the West Bank, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who has floated the idea of conditioning aid to impact Israel’s policies multiple times.

We can now add a third name to that list: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

On a Saturday, Warren said she was open to the idea of conditioning aid if Israel continued to expand its settlements:

Right now, Netanyahu says he is going to take Israel in a direction of increasing settlements, [but] that does not move us in the direction of a two-state solution. It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table…Everything is on the table.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "It is the official policy of the United States of America to support a two-state solution, and if Israel is moving in the opposite direction, then everything is on the table." pic.twitter.com/GjumaLoZ9k

— The Hill (@thehill) October 20, 2019

There’s no details here, but there weren’t really for Buttigieg or Sanders either. While Warren and Buttigieg have floated the idea in response tangible developments (settlement expansion, West Bank annexation) Sanders has said that he’d have the option on the table to assure that Israel treats the “Palestinian people and that region with respect.” That’s obviously pretty vague, but it does leave open the possibility of aid being conditioned for various infractions, as opposed to just the ones identified by Warren and Buttigieg.