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2·3 days ago“[The money] didn’t come from regular people. It’s come from billionaires, and 95 percent of it - at least 95 percent - has come from the Israeli lobby,” Massie said, specifically naming Aipac; the Republican Jewish Coalition; Christians United for Israel; and a trio of billionaires that have dominated the US election landscape: Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson - none of whom are from Kentucky.
“Their position is more war, it’s more strife, it’s more bombs, it’s more foreign aid, and those are the things that I’ve been voting against. So the real reason that this race is a serious race, and I may lose, is because a foreign lobby has fully funded to the extent that they’ve never done in any Republican race ever before,” Massie said.
Massie has raised some $5m for his campaign, but $10m alone has been spent running attack ads against him in Kentucky, including an AI-generated video of him going into a hotel with members of “The Squad” - the progressive female congresswomen in the Democratic Party.
yes. Their own cruelty exhilarates them.
for sure - fuck Obama. But it’s important to acknowledge that Trump in particular caved to very old and tired arguments from Netanyahu that others had rejected.
Israel is the only reliable millitary ally in the region … Doing nothing just leads to plane hijackings and the spread of militant extremism like Houthis, Hezbollah, IRGC, etc.
this is such bullshit
Israel has no more right to exist than Nazi Germany
You have to wonder if he browsed lemmy.world!
not Israel. Jewish Insider is talking about American Jews.
A common refrain in conversations with those in the Democratic pro-Israel world after the votes — and even before then — was that the end of Netanyahu’s premiership would provide a critical opening and opportunity to start rebuilding support for Israel among Democrats.
Prof Marandi is an IRGC spokesperson and a member of Iran’s negotiating team in Islamabad.
I hope you take it easy and feel better…
I’m not convinced by Biden’s argument. I believe that in those quotes he’s tap-dancing for his donors. The US has (or had) other aircraft carriers in the Middle East that are closer to the Persian Gulf: the military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia. Actual aircraft carriers and American troops were stationed there. And that’s where all the oil is - Israel is a thousand miles away from the oil, American troops are on top of it. It doesn’t make sense how Israel would be this precious, essential piece in the system. They don’t even deploy troops beyond their borders. None of the Arab monarchies are given billions in unconditional aid in exchange for troop presence either, and they don’t object to the US presence, which stabilizes their regimes. Edward Said was pointing all this out in the 70s, it’s in Question of Palestine…
It doesn’t make sense that the US would benefit from ethnic cleansing of the Levant. It doesn’t make the oil flow faster. This isn’t Monster’s Inc, where screams can be turned into energy. The US would much prefer to be a quiet, invisible, extractive presence supporting the monarchies.
I would need to see evidence of the US actually extracting value from Israel. And not just a little value either, like “police training”, but value which is worth the billions of dollars that are sent there. Value that compensates for US spending on air defense missiles to protect them. Value that compensates for UNSC vetos protecting Israel’s genocide. Value that compensates for the loss of the Strait of Hormuz. I don’t think there’s any evidence that the US is extracting value from Israel in any capacity close to that order of magnitude.
Think about how the aid to Israel is unconditional - i.e. they do not have to constrain their behavior in any way to receive it. The US has no other relationship like that.
For those reasons I have a hard time letting go of the idea that Israel has strong advocates in the United States who are able to manipulate the large country into doing ITS bidding.
it is a Zionist group that launders repression of Palestinian activism as social justice
I have also linked the original article here: https://altmedia.house/post/247662
seems written to absolve JD Vance and Marco Rubio
the density of casualties is 3x higher even than the daily casualties in Gaza when the genocide was proceeding at full speed.
unreal!
Reddit suspended me for 3 days for posting this there. They said this is “calling for violence” lol