Biden urged to threaten Israel weapons halt over far-right concerns

Pair urge president to withdraw military support to Netanyahu's coalition government if Palestinians are expelled or land annexed

Two former senior US diplomats have made a highly unusual call for the Biden administration to cut weapons supplies to Israel if the incoming far-right government uses them to annex Palestinian land, expel Arabs or finally kill off the diminishing possibility of a Palestinian state.

Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Israel under George W Bush, and Aaron David Miller, a US Middle East peace negotiator during several administrations, have called for what they described as an unprecedented and controversial" break from America's largely unconditional military and diplomatic support for Israel if the most extreme government in the history of the state" pursues the stated aims of some of its members.