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Home Front: Politix
Ocasio-Cortez Fundraising Email: Let's End The US-Israeli Relationship
2019-03-09
[Townhall] Well, if you thought there would be a day where the far left wing of the House Democratic caucus would quiet down a bit, given their anti-Semitism issues, you’d be wrong. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sent a fundraising email last night suggesting that AIPAC was coming after her and that the U.S.-Israeli relationship should be severed. No, I’m not kidding. This is insanity. AOC has been one of the few defenders of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who once again was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting those who support Israel are exhibiting dual loyalty. The latter is a common anti-Semitic smear. Omar has also peddled the talking point about Jewish money and influence with her "all about the Benjamins" tweet.

In 2012, she said that Israel had hypnotized the world. She’s run the gauntlet on this front. The recent dual loyalty fiasco has given her party leadership heartburn, exposing its fractured points with this resolution that condemns anti-Semitism, which has been watered down because...apparently, there are a lot of Democrats who don’t think this is an issue. They’re just angry that their side is being pilloried for peddling bigotry when they wanted the entire focus to be on Trump and his phantom prejudices. So, after days of anti-Semitic theater, AOC decided to blast this fundraising email (via NTK Network):
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  We are well compensated for our endeavors with Israel.
Posted by: newc   2019-03-09 17:00  

#11  Israel is a bright shining light in an otherwise muddy dark corrupt nightmare st--hole of a region.
and they are our Ally.
Posted by: 746   2019-03-09 16:44  

#10  And this one's for Herb, in case he hasn't gotten a clue yet: currently Israel is a way for our government and military to fund research into anti-ballistic-missile stuff without having it oops-"mismanaged" by leftist idiots who think we'll be better off with our cities destroyed.

Every time they get the cat while we're out of town they say they love him and put him on a vegan diet.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-03-09 14:56  

#9  Herb, when the fallout from Iran's nukes starts spreading you might grab a clue.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-03-09 14:31  

#8  I dunno... I'm doing a poor job of getting stuff across... and this may or may not help, but... here it is:

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-03-09 13:50  

#7  As the old gunfighter said to Kim Carsons: "Your hand and eye know more than you do, son. Just learn to stand out of the way..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-09 13:47  

#6  And suicidal on top of being morally wrong.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-03-09 13:20  

#5  There's a contradiction: On the one hand, the left wants to use Marxism as branding to return to relatively feudal medieval institutions, but on the other hand it wants to adopt policies that the average medieval doge would have recognized as suicidal.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-03-09 13:20  

#4  Why are the people who bitch so much about the slavery in the confederacy the ones who are so quick, both fifty years ago and today, to put their allies on the auction block?

Even if it were morally right, and they deserved it, it's a counter-survival position that'll make us weaker and people like the Russians and Chinese stronger. I thought we were supposed to be fighting collusion?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-03-09 13:13  

#3  Oh--this one WASN'T the Babylon Bee? It's hard to keep track these days.
Posted by: Tom   2019-03-09 12:51  

#2  A shower won't wash the stink off ya, Herb
Posted by: Frank G   2019-03-09 05:29  

#1  I can't believe I'm on the same side of the argument as her. I feel dirty. I need a shower.

It's obvious that AIPAC has an outsize influence on American politics. It's also obvious that Israel has an outsized priority in American foreign policy. Who benefited when we destroyed Iraq? It certainly wasn't America. Now we're going after Iran and I don't see how constant war in the middle east benefits us at all. It's great for Israel though.

It's bad enough the Europeans leech off us, but we give direct foreign aid to Israel. Money right out of our own pockets. To a developed first world nation. WTF? The claim is always that they buy weapons with it. I say let's cut out the middleman and just keep the money without washing it through the military-industrial complex.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-03-09 04:58  

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