The United States has vetoed a widely backed U.N. resolution that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine.
  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Brought to you by decades of Israeli lobbying money mixed with gullible religious morons in the U.S. legislature. Money in politics leads to genocide.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        We should pool together and buy ourselves some politicians, y’all.

        Traditionally, one calls that “forming a party” but unfortunately we live in a two-party system.

        It should be noted that the $4B Israel got wasn’t just $4B for Israel. It was $4B for purchase of US weapons systems too Israel. And it wasn’t just Israel lobbying for this spending. You had a host of MIC lobbyists throwing in their own millions.

        It should further be noted that AIPAC isn’t just doing a one-time $4M retail purchase of legislation. They’ve spend decades building up an enormous back bench of former US Congresscritters, allied staffers, political bundlers, event organizers, and religious affiliates. They injected $4M down the funnel in an 11th-hour push for the next traunch of military kick-backs that they’ve been receiving since the Bush 43 administration.

        No other investment reliably returns 1000:1.

        Its important to recognize that Israel provides an incredibly vital service to the US military in the form of maintaining control of the Suez Canal. Its not just a 1000:1 ROI. They’re holding Egyptian national leadership at gunpoint and we’re kicking them over some money to keep the gun loaded.