Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.
In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding “Iron Dome and other defensive systems”, and that “consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law”.
Her remarks on Wednesday follow reports that she pledged to oppose any future military aid to Israel during a New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) forum on Tuesday evening.
“Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act”, Ocasio-Cortez added, referring to a law which prohibits the US from providing military support to army units that violate human rights.
According to City & State, which obtained a partial recording of the DSA forum, Ocasio-Cortez told members: “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,” adding that “the Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.”
My favorite Democrat, if only she was the norm.
Come to think of it, she’s the only Democrat who I don’t find infuriating… the last time I researched one (Maxine Waters) I was revolted
Elizabeth Warren also seems to be speaking sense in a group of nonsensical liberals from what I’ve seen
I would vote for her over Hillary Clinton certainly, or Harris.
Or Biden for that matter, he was embarrassing, too
Those are establishment candidates. Newsom is the establishment pick. The DNC will sabotage AOC for sure
AOC is not suicidal
Fuck yeah, hopefully AOC starts a fuck aid to Israel trend
How about any aid at all? That country needs a lot of things, democracy, ethics, morals, but it does not need aid for anything
Shoulda done that years ago. We wouldn’t be in this predicament today had that been done. She offered criticism of Israel, but when push came to shove she didn’t rock the boat when voting time came and she changed her vote away from “no” to fund Israel’s Iron Dome.
Hate on the politicians not moving, not on those moving too slow for your liking. This shit is why you have Trumpaloompa now.
slow to improve is still an infinity larger improvement than… nearly every other party official, really
Hate both
Washington is literally occupied by Israeli assets. This should absolutely be the norm but it’s not so we need to keep pressing. If it were up to me we’d start arresting Israeli backed politicians for treason but as it is were in hell so I’ll give credit where credit is due
She’s got my vote for that.
Good for her.
Good!
I can see them spending money now to convince morons not to support her.
I’ll hold my breath.
Based
Only after Ana Kasparian called Lyin’ Zion AOC out on her lies on twitter. And love how she is bringing up the Leahy amendment now when she was fucking ride or die for Biden and Kamala despite the fact that they violated the Leahy amendment AND other US laws AND international law🙄 She’s a neolib Zio grifter whose sole purpose is to put a cap on leftward movement in the Democratic Party and their base🤮
I of course wish AOC would go further and she’s not perfect, but I won’t let perfect be the enemy of the good in this situation.
It’s good that she’s saying this.
If she backs it up with actions maybe. But words are empty and it’s too little too late. Her actions up until now have supported the occupying Zionist entity and its genocide. It’s hard for me and a lot of anti-Zionists to take her seriously when it is very obviously politically expedient for her to say this at this moment (especially right after Ana Kasparian called her out on twitter for her support of Israel). She’s still an opportunist that is part of an imperialist, Zionist party that is complicit in the murder of countless civilians across the globe, and, worst of all, doesn’t seem to understand that. You say “perfect is the enemy of the good” but what good is this for Gaza now when it is decimated and hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered, many still buried under the rubble?
Go further than that, claw back our tax money to pay for healthcare dammit
This!!!
Give em a bill and charge interest every year.
If they don’t pay, most of the global economy still runs thru NYC, if we sanction their leaders and oligarchs instead of random ass “settlers” who don’t even have a bank account, we could apply real pressure for their government to pay.
Yep, let’s start playing Hard Ball. Stop giving breaks to economic predators and parasites.
Israel does not owe the US for weapons, because they are gifts. The nominally loans are immediately forgiven by state dept.
I love how you watch as potus does whatever the fuck he wants and still thinks “oh we have precedent for this” is something anyone should give one singular fuck about.
How about this: we are going to vote for the people that will claw back every fucking penny from that country we can. They fucking owe us.
They should owe though. It’s disgusting that we continue to gift weapons for a genocide while we refuse to fund things like universal healthcare here at home.
Yeah but it is what the US says it is. We could just state otherwise, you owe us, fuck you pay us. Not going to happen as they have our politicians compromised, with the CIA’s help it appears. How about some fucking court martials for helping foreign governments compromise our politicians? Death penalty.
forgiving a loan is a permanent contract. You can validly say that everyone who previously cancelled loans were traitorous scum, as a basis for conditions for future sales to Israel, and seizing assets of all “supposed Americans” of those who bribed the traitorous scum as restitution. But cancelled loans themselves are without legal restitution.
I prefer seizing the $10T of Zionazi agents and funding of Zionazi first rule over America to death penalties.
Oh is it? Tell that to all the fucking student loans that were forgiven they went back on. No, it’s clearly not fucking permanent. So we are done here.
Idk what you are talking about. I said the US officials that helped compromise our citizens for a foreign country are traitors. You have a problem with that?
As far as forgiving loans, Israel wasn’t loaned anything, we gave it to them, that’s the whole point here. But yes, we have cancelled loans before, including in the Magna Carta
As far as forgiving loans, Israel wasn’t loaned anything, we gave it to them,
The contractual shenanigans of gifting weapons to Israel is that they are sold with a loan. The state department immediately forgives the loan.
the US officials that helped compromise our citizens for a foreign country are traitors.
I agree. I prefer seizing their and their donors wealth instead of death penalty.
Better late than never, but the left coalition of the party could have done this 75,000 Palestinians ago.
accurate estimate range about 300000 Palestinians. or about 1/6th
Sombody guard her because Mosad already is planing to eliminate her.
Yeah I was about to say damn what a shame she was so young.
