Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.
In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding “Iron Dome and other defensive systems”, and that “consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law”.
Her remarks on Wednesday follow reports that she pledged to oppose any future military aid to Israel during a New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) forum on Tuesday evening.
“Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act”, Ocasio-Cortez added, referring to a law which prohibits the US from providing military support to army units that violate human rights.
According to City & State, which obtained a partial recording of the DSA forum, Ocasio-Cortez told members: “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,” adding that “the Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.”
This is so typically you, zero explanation of what you mean, just more bullshit.
WTF? How was AOC flanked by MTG? That’s not a concept. You are absolutely useless to debate, it always leads nowhere with you.
This is outright false, there is no link in the post I responded to, also who the fuck would want to listen to an audio link for a simple point? A point you never care to substantiate, apart from some broad statement, that to me seems absolutely false and moronic.
The link is further up. Here it is again: https://youtu.be/pfECtut0STg?t=250
I’ve done it no fewer than 4 times in this thread. Dig around. AOC’s own words validates my claim. Its a good thing she’s changed, which is what this article was about, but she had a wrong position to begin with. And yes, MTG did outflank her on this, which is a strike against AOC’s ability to read the room. At the time, it came across as calculating and conniving. Even more strongly now.
Its a good thing AOC pivoted to this stance, but its a good pivot, if late and show poor political instincts.
This has zero bearing on your claim that MTG outflanked democrats and AOC, it’s like you are switching to a completely different debate.
Yes I agree AOC was late in realizing how bad Israel is, and has been for a long time, like in decades. But at least she and other Democrats are beginning to wake up.
Also to the defense of AOC, what she supported was a defensive system.
You shouldn’t be defending this act of hers. She was wrong when she supported it, and defending her is wrong now. If you are commenting or engaging in politics just to be a standard bearer or water carrier, you should disengage from the process because you do real damage in doing so.
No, it doesn’t, because its extremely relevant to AOC’s ability to form and execute on a political calculus. AOC getting outflanked by MTG isn’t up for debate, its just a thing that happened. Its quite literally the article we’re reading, that AOC has now adopted the stance that MTG outflanked her with, the unilateral disarmament of Israel. AOC shouldn’t have allowed MTG to get there first; it speaks to AOC’s questionable political instincts. If AOC is gunning for the top slot, she needs to get to the right position first, not later than someone like MTG.