In a moment that lays bare the enduring tension between executive authority and legislative conscience, the Trump administration has moved to deliver 60,000 one-ton bombs to Israel — among the most destructive munitions in the American arsenal. The decision arrives as voices in Congress, from both parties, have begun questioning whether the United States should continue arming Israel at this scale and without condition. It is a choice that speaks not only to the particulars of a bilateral relationship, but to the older and unresolved question of who, in a democracy, holds the moral weight of w