While several prominent Republicans, including the President himself, have vocalized support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his decision to ban to sitting congresswomen from entering the country, an odd consortium of conservative voices have spoken out against it.
“Israel does not allow those who call for its boycott and/or destruction into the country.”
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Everyone of these two faced jerks say it’s ‘wrong’ while trying to blame the ‘squad’ for Bibi and Trump enacting punitive actions against US CITIZENS and sitting members of Congress.
All three CONServatives did NOT discuss the moral or ethical aspect of what Bibi did…nor did they discuss about the effects to America wrt to its foreign diplomatic relations or the fact that it just so wrong for the leader of a country that receives the most aid from the US to do that.
All their points were just the political aspect of it and how it will impact them!
Not odd at all…I/Me/Mine aka “What’s In It For Me?” CONServative mentality on steroids!
I wonder what would happen if the House didn’t fund money for Israel or just funded one dollar?
In a just world, Netanyahu will lose his election next month, and die in prison. And in this just world, Trump would lose his 2020 election by a landslide and also die in prison.
It was a PR mistake in my case. I went from being sort of ambivalent about Israel to now being totally opposed to spending a single dime of U.S. tax money on supporting a country that really doesn’t need or deserve it.
No entry for our elected officials, no foreign aid. Take it or leave it.
If ttump is reelected, Israel might become a partisan issue in the near future.
“If you openly joined an international movement to destroy the state of Israel, then you’ll suffer the consequences,” Graham told CBS on Thursday.
Ridiculous, of course.
Equally ridiculous:
If ending oppression and respecting human rights would destroy the state of Israel, then …
Exactly…
When does Faux, Breitbart, and others start the antisemitism rants against these people, Bernie, AIPAC, Rabbis, etc as they are all saying that Israel is wrong… what they have said is not very much different than others, including these fine ladies.
I oppose many of my government’s policies and wish that other countries would express their own opposition to them by boycotting anything to do with them. Does that mean that I hate and want to destroy the US? According to Lackey Lindsay, yes.
Ben Shapiro cannot make a point without owning a lib in the process.
Lindsey and Shapiro are apparently “not on a first-name basis with the truth.” Omar and Tlaib are trying to bring about destruction of Israel? R-i-i-i-ight
That’s an interesting sort of projection – although with those motherfuckers, they’re bent on the USA’s destruction.
Won’t work. Most of the billions that Israel receives from the US are written into the contract that backs up the Israel-Egypt peace treaty. The US is required to pay that money as a quid pro quo (bribe) to both Israel and Egypt in order to maintain the treaty. In short, the US can’t cut off aid to Israel without jeopardizing the treaty.
I wonder how the right-wing will feel when this precedent is applied to some their standard bearers in other countries?
We should be careful about condemning the entire country and its people for the actions of the asshole who who happens to be in charge at the moment. That goes for Israel too.
What I’m picking up on nationally/internationally is that protest is not to be allowed. It doesn’t matter if it’s BDS, Never Again Action, or the 13 year old boy who was attacked in MT.
These are scary times.
Unless one or both parties are determined to have violated the treaty. Both have, of course.
Netanyahu has decided that Israel should be an asset of the Republican Party. He’s done this before. There should be serious consequences for that.