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Text: The United States Federal Government should enter into and implement the outcome of binding consultation with the Israeli government on whether the United States Federal Government should:
The United States Federal Government should abide by the results of consultation.

Contention 2:
Israel will say yes-but reassurances are key.
Ron Kampeas, JTA News Analyst, 6-1-2010, “Obama and Netanyahu: a few unfortunate incidents, or a clash of worldviews?,” http://jta.org/news/article/2010/06/01/2739401/obama-and-netanyahu-a-few-unfortunate-incidents-or-a-clash-of-world-views

The question for Netanyahu's government … unwavering U.S. support.

Contention 3: The Net Benefit:

First - Reviving genuine consultation with Israel is key to US-Israeli relations
Freilich ’06 (Dr. Chuck, Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, “Hizballah in Lebanon: The War Was Not Supposed to End This Way”, Jerusalem Viewpoints, http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp546.htm)

The U.S. and Israel maintain intensive… war in Lebanon.

Second – consultation on the Middle East specifically is key to successful strategies
Bolourchi ’06 (Neda, JD, MA, “A case for engagement”, Asia Times, May 28, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HE27Ak03.html)

In fact, this observer said… provides to the United States,” he said.

Third - Israel relations are critical to maintaining every aspect of US hegemony
Oren ’11 (Michael, Israeli Ambassador to the US, May/June, Foreign Policy, “The Ultimate Ally” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/the_ultimate_ally?page=0,0, jj)

Israel is not, of course…. "absolutely critical" to U.S. national security. 

Hegemony prevents nuclear war
Arbatov ‘07 [Alexei Arbatov, Head of the Center for International Security Center of the Institute for International Economy and International Relationships of the Russian Academy of Sciences “Is a New Cold War Imminent,” http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/20/1130.html, 2007]

A multipolar world … major capitals of the world.

The aff is wasted energy – fighting particular battles without changing the way the economy works means nothing really changes – the aff just obscures the logic of capitalism
Zizek, ’99 (Slavoj, Senior Researcher and professor at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, The Ticklish Subject, page 352-355)

The big news of today’s post-political age … compulsion that effectively runs his life.

Vote neg on ethics - resisting this reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility
Zizek and Daly 2004
(Slavoj, professor of philosophy at the Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana, and Glyn, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, Conversations with Zizek, page 14-16)

For Zizek it is imperative that we cut … otherwise sound matrix.

The alternative is to withdraw from the ideology of capital. Capitalism only survives because we believe it is a truth claim.
Johnston ’04 (Adrian, interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory, The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Zizek and the Dynamics of Belief, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society)

Perhaps the absence … commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism’’).

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A) Uniqueness – Obama will push the CTBT now – but it will require capital
San Francisco Examiner 6/27/11 (James Carafano, a senior research fellow for national security at The Heritage Foundation, 6/27/11, " Nuclear treaty that Obama is pushing will put US at risk ", http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/2011/06/nuclear-treaty-obama-pushing-will-put-us-risk)

The “bullets” in this revived game … best chance to ram a treaty through.

EGYPT LINK - The plan requires massive political capital from Obama
El Amrani, January 6th, 2011 (Issandr, Project on Middle East Democracy, “Confronting Egypt’s Dangerous Decline” http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/policy-brief-series_elamrani.pdf, jj)

The U.S. needs to send a strong … contradictions of its current approach.

C) CTBT solves extinction
Granoff and Tyson, President and Senior Author of the Global Security Institute, 09 (Jonathan and Rhianna, “Achieving the Entry-Into-Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty: What UN Member States Can Do Now,” April, Accessed 7-12-09)

The treaty remains as important today … living systems upon which it depends.

Text: The European Union should… <Insert plan mechanism of democracy assistance>

The EU solves democracy promotion in the Arab world
Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.  He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM)
It is only with knowledge of the local …. role of either catalyst or teacher.

The EU is comparatively more effective than the US at democracy promotion - Arab perception
Abboud 2010 (Noufal Abboud was Project Coordinator at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) project on Democracy in the Arab Word, focusing on elections, political parties and women’s participation in politics in Egypt, Yemen and Jordan.  He has a MA in Human Rights from Mahidol University, Thailand, and a Licence en Droit (BA in Law) from University Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco; "Regenerating the State in the Arab World: The Role Of the European Union in Democracy Building"; http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Abboud_low_1.pdf, SRM)
Finally, the Arab world desperately …. tolerance, diversity and justice.

EU credibility low now
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest, 8/19/11, online: http://www.businessinsider.com/european-crisis-deepens-2011-8

The bad news just keeps coming. Coming close on the recent revelation that economic growth is slowing faster than expected in France and Germany, British labor figures have disappointed forecasters and it seems that Greece is heading for yet another recession despite optimistic predictions to the contrary.
A familiar pattern is emerging …getting worse, not improving.

CP increases EU soft power
E. A. Fakhro, The European Union and Islam: Democracy Promotion in Bahrain and the Arab World, 2009, online: http://www.idea.int/resources/analysis/upload/Fakhro_low_2.pdf

Any entity that seeks to promote democracy …. ally and partner of the Arab world. 

Increasing EU credibility is critical to avert an economic crisis
Tabellini 10 (Guido, Italian economist, “The ECB: Gestures and Credibility,” May 26, 2010, tek.org.tr, YS)
The currency crisis that is …. other European authorities. 

Failure to restore the economy leads to global great power wars.
Mead, ’09 [Walter Russell, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, New Republic, February 4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8&p=2]

So far, such half-hearted experiments … we may still have to fight.

VandyA) Link - The plan attempts to erase our vulnerability by shielding us from undemocratic forces – this inherently makes lives less grievable

Judith Butler, Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, “Frames of War”, 2009, Page 124-125 (BJN)

I write this as one trying to come… when lost, are worth public grieving.

B) Attempts to eradicate vulnerability fuel the instruments of war. Only recognition can end violence.

Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley, 2004 (Judith, Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence, pg 28-9) (BJN)

Mourning, fear, anxiety, rage. In the United States… we can be vanquished or lose others. 

C) The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of an interdependent and universal vulnerability – This recognition has the power to change the very structure of domination and opens up space for an ethical relationship with the Other.

Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley, 2004 (Judith, Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence,) (BJN)

By insisting on a “common” corporeal vulnerability… cannot fully predict or control.

Economic collapse causes peaceful shift away from globalization and industrialization

Lewis, ‘98 (Chris, June 2000. PhD American Studies Univ of Colorado Boulder. “The Paradox of Global Development and the Necessary Collapse of Global Industrial Civilization,” www.cross-x.com/archives/LewisParadox.pdf)

With the collapse of global industrial civilization ... so often do, will themselves face collapse and ruin.

It’s try or die for the Earth – failure to transition away from growth guarantees extinction.

Barry, ’11 (Glen, PhD in Land Resources from UW-Madison and President and Founder of Ecological Internet, “Being Green and Meaning It,” http://www.ecoearth.info/blog/2011/01/ecological_internet_being_gree.asp, bgm)

Humanity’s fate is completely one with the natural ... population and over-consumption (albeit inequitable).

A. Uniqueness – Piecemeal reform will pass and solve the economy – Obama push

The Vindicator, 10/13/11 (“Defeat of Obama’s jobs bill opens door to new strategy,” http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/oct/13/defeat-of-obama8217s-jobs-bill-opens-doo/, bgm)

Defeat of Obama’s jobs bill …. an investment is a waste of money.

B. The plan requires massive political capital from Obama

El Amrani, January 6th, 2011 (Issandr, Project on Middle East Democracy, “Confronting Egypt’s Dangerous Decline” http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/policy-brief-series_elamrani.pdf, jj)

The U.S. needs to … contradictions of its current approach.

And political capital is key

Sneed September 12 2011 (Toney, US News and World Report Writer, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/09/12/will-congress-pass-obamas-jobs-bill)

Thursday evening, President Obama … ready to hand him a win?"

C. Impact

Jobs bill success saves the economy and leads to Obama reelection

Ullah, 9/11/11 (Dr. A.H. Jaffor, Ph.D. Research Chemist of Protein Chemistry Phytase Engineering Program, Commodity Utilization Research Unit, USDA-New Orleans, “Obama’s new jobs bill – a tough sale to Republicans,” http://mukto-mona.com/wordpress/?p=1134, BJN)

The president has urged ….  Therefore, let us stay tuned.

Failure to restore the economy leads to global great power wars. 

Mead, ’09 [Walter Russell, Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, New Republic, February 4, http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8&p=2]

So far, such half-hearted … we may still have to fight.

Republicans will strike Iran

Dilek 9-20-11 (Emine, addicting info, “All Republican Candidates Favor War with Iran” http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/20/all-republican-candidates-favor-war-with-iran/, jj)

Prepare yourself my fellow Americans… at the ballot boxes.”

Iran attack will cause a global nuclear war that leads to human extinction

Hirsch Professor at the University of Califorina at San Diego 2008

(Seymour Hirsch, Professor of physics @ the University of California @ San Diego, 4/10/2k8 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HIR20060422&articleId=2317)

Iran is likely to respond … will all be gone before anybody has prevailed.