The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has boiled down last week's House "debate" on authorizing another $205 million in military aid to Israel into a three-minute video entitled The Twilight Zone on Capitol Hill. They call it a "spoof." I don't find it the least bit amusing, but if you want a quick taste of the rhetoric our legislators use to justify giving their constituents' dollars to Israel, this is a place to start.
The US Campaign has also discovered YouCut, a new web page set up by Rep. Eric Cantor, an ardent Zionist and the Republican Whip in the House, to solicit ideas about how to cut the Federal budget. I just offered him a few choice suggestions. Other Mondoweiss readers may wish to do likewise.
“Foreign aid” is at the top of the list of proposed spending cuts advocated by the teabagger base.
It didn’t take Rand Paul long to climb down from his earlier skeptical comments about aid to Israel.
His old man at least is an honest and consistent libertarian nutball.
So now we have an open declaration from washington that Israel is indeed a US carrier on ‘permanent’ station in the ME, great to know that apparently you share not just values but “very morality and soul of our nation” with the ongoing Apartheid Experiment in the Levant, all for the “Great Battle”. I can see why this would make any number of people here feel quite unwell and why, right now, Bin Laden has just had to go and change his underpants and have a cigarette.
“I just offered him a few choice suggestions. Other Mondoweiss readers may wish to do likewise.”
Done. Not that he’ll read it.
me too. i advised cutting the 3 billion.
do you think they might be up for suggestions on behalf of the English King?
Our US morality is reflected in the phosphorous we taxpayers freely donated to Israel to enable it to provide free cremation to formerly living Palestinian men, women, and children during Operation Cast Lead.