cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33488629
By MEE staff
Published date: 18 July 2025 20:59 BSTHardline America Firster and staunch Trump supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene voted alongside progressive Democrat Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to strip Israel of $500m in US funding, hours after it bombed the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza.
The House of Representatives, however, rejected in a 422-6 vote on Thursday, to cut funding for the Israeli Cooperative Program - an agreement through which the US provides Israel with $500m to boost its missile programmes.
It is a separate allocation from the $3.3bn the US sends Israel as “security assistance” every year.
Not even getting into how Israels have all the “socialism” stuff we say we can’t afford for ourselves.
If universal healthcare and free college isn’t worth it for Americans, why are we giving Israel billions annually? Shouldn’t Israel stop that “frivolous” spending to lower the amount they need from foreign countries?
But like, when they House votes 422-6 for something like this, it’s pointless to think logic will change the mind of any of the 422.
It’s a hard thing to admit, but we need to be able to say a foreign government has clearly bought off both parties of our government.
And nothing will convince the compromised politicians to stop, we have to vote them out. D or R every one of those 422 needs to go. MTG still needs to go too, there’s plenty of other reasons
Seriously. We subsidize them to the point where they have universal healthcare, social safety nets, robust education, and in return they turned Palestine into a prison state, and now a literal genocide.
We need to realize that Israel gets free passes because their Epstein honey pot ensnared generations of western political leaders, and that’s why in America, we need to purge our political leadership of anyone over 65 for registered parties. The world they grew up in is gone, and they were the ones that destroyed it. They can hand over the reigns, or be removed from them forcefully
They’re fighting proxy wars we pay them to fight.
The US has a handful of what one might reasonably call adversaries militarily. If not only China at this point, considering the Russian military has been exposed as being quite a joke over the last several years.
Iran isnt remotely a military adversary of the US, or any of the other groups/countries Israel beefs with. Saying we pay them to fight proxy wars is a bit more than a stretch