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MAGA acolyte Marjorie Taylor Greene votes alongside Tlaib and Omar to cut US funding for Israel
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Why is the only thing both sides enthusiastically agree on is giving billions to Israel?
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You're this close Marjorie. "Our own country?" No, They own the country. "Our own people?" They own the people.
Every one of my reps has AIPAC high on their donor list. I am unsure what to say any longer when I call. It feels like my "voice" is too cheap.
They are God's chosen people, after all. And you, my fellow American, are God's chosen people's piggy bank. That'll be $500,000,000 to keep killing brown people, even AOC says you gotta pay up.
4th box. When even your money holds no meaning to them, your mettle will still will
Correct. Your tax dollars going to fund candidacies you neither want nor approve, so your voice can not matter.
So, when AIPAC donates to candidates, it's US tax payers being surreptitiously forced to donate to those candidates.
Why is it bipartisan? Israel is our only ally in the middle east. We lose Israel, we lose our foothold into the countries with oil.
Government sources indicate that the US really only imports from two Middle Eastern countries: Iraq and Saudi Arabia. I don't see how either of those countries would be particularly displeased if the US cuts off Israel.
Israel is a useless ally. They just hold their hands out for American money and don't seem to provide anything in return other than bad press. Maybe you could make an argument that Israel's position is beneficial for regional stability, but I don't see why other countries couldn't fill that role. There is no shortage of strongmen in the Middle East. Yeah, they're the "oNlY deMocRaCy iN tHe MiddLe EasT" but that means nothing if their electorate always just votes for politicians who want to massacre their neighbours.
Israel isn't just a useless ally. They're a fucking liability as an ally. America is like the 7ft tall 300lb quite guy in the hoodie standing in the corner, and Israel is his 5'2 'friend' who gets constant handouts, but acts like a complete dick hole to everyone and provokes fights that they can't win on their own.
Israel is a fucking mistake made possible by the compromises and lack of foresight post WW2.
This is not at all a critique on the Jewish faith, just on the nation of Israel
I think you missed the point with my post, which is fair since the way I said it doesn't look like criticism.
Israel itself is useless. We only support it as a foothold into the middle east. As you said, anybody else could theoretically fill that role, but the reality of it is that much of the middle east hates the United States. If we lose Israel, America would have to spend a lot more to regain that foothold.
To make it perfectly clear, I am in agreement that the United States should drop them as an ally and leave the middle east alone altogether.
Israel is NOT our only ally in the Middle East. We have good relationships with every country there except Iran. Frankly we’d have even more friends if we didn’t unconditionally back Israel and their wars on every one of their neighbors.