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Alayna's avatar

You did not mention we are now about to combine the Israel and United States military so no further authorization will be needed to continue our support for the Zionist destruction to create a greater Israel. You do not mention which Zionist members of our Congress need to lose their seats due to their support and votes to turn our military over to the Zionists of Israel.

All of our political leaders must learn that support of the Zionists in any way will be the permanent end of their Zionist AIPAC political supported careers for ANY future elected position for all time. We need names, now.

Julio Santos  "Nobody"'s avatar

You can see which politician at your state have received money from the israely lobby.

https://www.trackaipac.com/aipac

Alayna's avatar

I found donors to AIPAC but no list of politicians receiving money.

It's not just politicians who receive money but I want to know who voted for the bill that combines the American and Israel military.

Ellen Reagan's avatar

The Futures Act, which merges the US and Israeli militaries, is embedded in the NDAA now working its way through Congress. Massey and Khanna proposed an amendment to strike The Futures Act (Section 224/219) from the NDAA, but neither the House nor the Senate Armed Services Commitees did so in their mark ups. The NDAA is now before the House Rules Committee until June 29. Call the members of that committee and make your case that they support the Massey/Khanna amendment to strike The Futures Act.

Nancy's avatar

I read that the House Armed Services Committee took a voice vote on Section 224 of FY 2027 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the bill to which you’re referring. Thus, I couldn’t find a list of those who voted for it. However, in the coverage I could find, the bill was consistently referred to as “bipartisan,” and Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington was also mentioned consistently as a cosponsor. Not surprisingly, Smith has taken a lot of money from AIPAC.

Alayna's avatar

They like voice votes so they can avoid putting their name on it. They should have their name on the NDAA, so I would settle to remove all members that voted for the NDAA with the Section 224 still attached. If they manage to use the voice vote to keep their names off the NDAA with 244 attached, the entire Congress has to go. Voting for Zionist genocide is worse than voting for Nazi Germany. If we take money out of politics, the Zionist can't purchase the new Congress.

Nancy's avatar

Smith is being primaried in August. Like California, the two top vote getters in Washington proceed to the general election. In addition to a Republican, three candidates to the “left” of Smith are running. One is Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle councilwoman who is running on a Revolutionary Workers Party platform. Hedges interviewed her a couple of years ago and she’s really impressive. The Democratic candidate running against Smith is also described as to his “left” and the fourth candidate is running on the Socialist Workers Party ticket.

In my own city, we just elected a Democratic Socialist as mayor who modeled her platform on Mamdani’s. She raised money from unions and individual donors, while her chief opponent took “dark money” from a PAC (the donors don’t have to identify themselves) and was supported by commercial developers, outside donors and utility companies.

The point of this is that we don’t have to settle for Republicans and Democrats any more — or at least, not those who have supported a genocide, and those who still do so.

Ingamarie's avatar

I read an interview Hedges did with Kshama just a couple of days ago......she makes me proud to be a woman, but it is interesting to me, how little I've heard of her on any of the 'progressive' American tv stations that I watch.

Noticing just now as well that few progressive commentators on the Iran mess, can bring themselves to face reality. America: you lost that stupid 'excursion' war....but continue to demonize Iran, and seem eager to get on side if Trump renegs on his promises, and Iran's frozen assets stay in your banks? America's sanctions stay intact?? And for damn sure, Iran can't toll a passage only a moron would argue is in international waters.

It's sad that as bad as Trump is, he wasn't completely wrong about your mainstram media....and there likely is a deep state. Though calling it 'deep' is a bit of an oxymoron.

Feral Finster's avatar

Keep in mind that AIPAC has a habit of laundering donations to allow politicians to take AIPAC money while piously proclaiming that they never would stoop to such a thing.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/aipac-connie-chan-san-francisco-primary

Julio Santos  "Nobody"'s avatar

Thank you Feral, I had seen it before but I had lost the thread. Yes, the israely lobby is getting too smart because now AIPAC donations have become toxic. We have to keep our eyes wide open, but the AIPAC tracking continues being very useful and I keep it handy for the general elections and I'll begin to receive requests for contributions to the politicians (I'm slobbering to return those petitions with no money but a note that I don't support genocide)

Nancy's avatar

I read recently on A New Policy’s website, anewpolicy.org, that companion bills are pending in the Senate and the House which, among other things, would authorize the FBI, DHS and the National Counterterrorism Center to monitor online speech for “antisemitism” as defined to include criticism of Israel. The bills are, respectively, SB 4576 and HB 9211. I have not yet looked up the sponsors of the House bill, but of the eight sponsors of SB 4576, five are Democrats: Jackie Rosen (NV); Chuck Schumer (NY); John Fetterman (PA); Elissa Slotkin (Mich.); and Brian Schatz (HI).

It appears the bills would be enforced through amendments to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which would elevate the rights of “Jewish Americans” above those of other protected classes (the statutes prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, religion and gender).

A New Policy monitors and critiques pending legislation. Perhaps Josh Paul, who co-created the website and quit the Biden State Department over the administration’s Gaza policy, could be interviewed by Chris to talk about these bills, as well as Section 224 of the NDAA, which would merge U.S. and Israeli military-industrial development. (Sec. 224 is scheduled for a vote of the full House in July).

A lot of us are pretty much done with the Democratic Party. We should let them know why.

P.S. I just noticed that Capitol Hill Citizen, an excellent publication that addresses both domestic and foreign policy, is now available on Substack.

JG Miller's avatar

Chuck Schumer needs a knife in his brain.

Nancy's avatar

Here’s another postscript. I just got an email from the organization, Demand Progress, which opposes pending legislation in both the Senate and the House that would merge U.S. and Israeli weapons, AI, surveillance and other technology. They have provided a phone number that will connect us directly with our reps so we can express our opposition to these bills: (202) 816-6141. The House bill is Section 224 of the NDAA, but according to DP, Section 219 of the NDAA proposes to do the same thing. DP has provided a script and will connect us one rep at a time, but it’s probably worthwhile to read the short provisions before we call. Apparently Bernie Sanders has introduced a resolution to try to stop these bills from being passed.

Cirze's avatar

LIST THEM ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ingamarie's avatar

We could all provide a few.

Maryam Sukaynah's avatar

Great analysis, but the US is not an innocent bystander. The bloody hands over Israel's genocidal war are too visible.

Ingamarie's avatar

We need some bills for restitution for all the Palestinian support activists who've been targetted in the west over the last 4 years....that alone might help assure us our complicity won't be so easy.........or cheap..........next time the warmongers decide some population needs cleansing.

Roshan Pedder's avatar

Hopefully a joint suicide pact. I'm 79 years old and had given up hope of ever seeing the disintegration of US empire and colonial apartheid Israel. But a shining light penetrating their billionaire armour has motivated me to hang around for the grand finale. Thank you Iran!

Ingamarie's avatar

I doubt anyone has an accurate count of how many of us seniors (60's university students) thought they'd die without seeing the end to the apartheid state of Israel.

Everytime anyone uses that term 'proxy' I cringe inside.........because of course, the west is good at hurling its crimes at others, but Israel has been America's proxy in the Middle East for as long as I've been alive...and I'm 80.

No Consent's avatar

I tend to agree with your view, at least as far as US complicity with Israel. To me it looks like a case of terminal parasitic infection, where the parasite kills the host. The US doesn't have the political resources to shake off zionism. It has locked itself into a corrupt pay-for-play system in which the control of zionist money cannot be removed. So the two must go down in flames together.

Suz-an's avatar

i've thought all along that they will, of course, take us down with them.

Ingamarie's avatar

What annoys this Canadian is that we'll fall with the USA.....while a significant percentage of our superficially 'good' people continue to believe quiet complicity is actually ethical opposition. Same goes for much of the USA dependent westl

Carter McKenzie's avatar

The United States is co-genocider. Our country's "leadership" will never stop supporting Israel for the right reason, for a moral reason-- but they might stop if it's too much blow-back for them. So however the U.S. stops supporting Israel, it will bring some good. Damn the warmongers, all of them.

Ingamarie's avatar

And the racism that is so often at the bottom of war. If only we could look at one of our beloved grandchildren and see over a hundred little girls in their hijabs jabbering as they trot off to school.........never to return........if only we could cry with all those Iranian families, maybe we'd find the energy to stop the war talk.

It's all so stupid. and unnecessary.

Vin LoPresti's avatar

"Democrats are increasingly shedding the albatross of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)".

Perhaps a few newcomers here and there joining some genuine anti-Zioinist voices like Rashida and Khanna. But until the central core of Zionist neocons—the Clintons, Pelosi, Fetterman, Newsom, James Carville et al.— go away, that political party will continue to belch imperialist wars.

George Cornell's avatar

Can’t happen soon enough and perhaps only in hindsight, Israel has been a terrible mistake from the start. The first clue should have been that these people were unable to establish self-governance for more than 2 millennia. And now, with every conceivable advantage and perk, with post-WWII sympathies widespread, not to mention Croesus-like financial resources (with foreign reserves per cap exceeding Norway’s), they’re still unable to do so. They are the most hated people in the world in survey after survey, have no friends, and are implacably addicted to land-theft, murder, rape and torture. They have deeply corrupted the governance of the U.S. and there has been no more obscene public speech in human history than the one with 55 standing ovations given by a genocidal lunatic war criminal to an AIPAC-infested Congress. Who needs ipecac when you can show Satanyahu lecturing American Congresscritters.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-worlds-most-and-least-liked-countries/

kristofarian's avatar

"[Israel has]

deeply corrupted

the governance of the U.S.

and there has been no more obscene

public speech in human history than the one

with 55 standing ovations given by a genocidal

lunatic war criminal to an AIPAC-infested Congress."

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bingo and bravissimo

George. my Sent-

iments EXACTLY

Jeff's avatar

Israel was created as a proxy state for the U.S. and U.K. for the purpose of controlling the oil in the Middle East. I would say that stealing Palestinian land and forcing them out of their homes, including killing many of them, is immoral, but I don't see any mistake here. The U.S. clearly doesn't give a damn about Palestinians, Arabs in general, or Iranians, so the creation of Israel was not a mistake from their point of view.

George Cornell's avatar

It took 7 hours to verbally list the Palestinian children murdered by Israel. And that’s not a mistake?

George Cornell's avatar

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna and President of the Italian Episcopal Conference, led a seven-hour prayer vigil in August 2025 where he read aloud the names of 12,211 Palestinian children killed in Gaza and 16 Israeli children killed in the October 7, 2023, attacks.The marathon reading was held at the Monte Sole memorial park near Bologna, Italy, in the ruins of a church burned by the Nazis in 1944. Cardinal Zuppi, along with dozens of other members of his diocese, read from a 469-page document to create a powerful plea for peace and an immediate ceasefire. The names of the Israeli children were sourced from Israeli government data, while the names of the Palestinian children were provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health.The vigil sparked widespread discussion across communities and forums. Across platforms like Reddit, users generally agree that reading the names is a profoundly heartbreaking way to highlight the overwhelming, one-sided nature of the child casualties. Forum users also note that, due to the destruction of infrastructure and difficulty recovering bodies from the rubble, the true number of casualties is widely believed to be much higher than the officially reported numbers.

Jeff's avatar

A "mistake" is something done accidentally, or done predicting what turns out to be an incorrect result. I don't see any accidental behavior or incorrect predictions here.

George Cornell's avatar

I disagree. Take the grossly undereducated Harry Truman for example, who thought the Jews had suffered but didn’t realize the suffering he was creating. The Brits, beholden to the Rothschilds, acted less forgivably as usual, primarily focused on ripping off the oil.

Cirze's avatar

Unending Diarrhea Is the Public's Only Response.

Kathy's avatar

Who knew it would be 47 to bring this occupier and “friend of the US” to its knees; might this bode well for 47 in the midterms? America is a master at avoiding accountability to the world and its citizens. 47 & Co will continue to line their pockets while ignoring the blood oozing all around them.

kristofarian's avatar

credit cadet

Bonespurtz as well

with the Planet's Rethinking

its deadly Addiction to Black Gold

Ingamarie's avatar

THis is a link to a Canadian magazine that does a lot on climate change and transition. It 's a Canadian source, but what they are saying about battery technology is bad news for the industry that's turned the devil's excrement into black gold.

Going forward, renewables are going to be cheaper, cleaner and quicker to ramp up.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/12/news/ontario-battery-storage-gas-electricity-auction

Their biggest problem???? CAN'T EMPLOY RENEWABLE FOR WARFARE, AT LEAST NOT EASILY.

Julio Santos  "Nobody"'s avatar

"But Trump, who always has been and always will be out for Trump alone, is not going to sacrifice himself for someone else’s benefit or airy ideals." This is the only sure thing we know from that lunatic who changes his stand on every phase of the moon.

Mass murderers usually turn their guns against themselves and this seems to be the same for a nation build on hatred. The sad side of all this tragedy is the terrible damage that Israel has caused to the non-zionist jews of the world who will have to suffer an intensified judeophobia.

Ingamarie's avatar

Inspite of the many great humanitarians we have like Chomsky...or up here in Canada, Naomi Klein, Avi Lewis, Dr. Gabor Mate....we've marched with many against the genocide in Gaza where I live.

We've got to ditch a few logical fallacies in the west........Conflating Jews with Zionism, or Christians with MAGA is one of the stupidist....next to demonizing our enemies (the ad hominem writ large) our way of thinking can only be very loosely called thinking at all.

Julio Santos  "Nobody"'s avatar

True. some decades before the genocide I didn't know the difference between Judaism and Zionism nor the role of Cristianity on that unholly land. Now, thanks to this tragedy, I was forced to study the problem and learned that Zionism is only a political party among those religions. That was a great relief because I had many great jewish friends quite normal and good human beings and very worthy of my admiration and friendship.

Cirze's avatar

What seems to be their history.

David Elliott's avatar

The evil that is driving Israel knows no bounds. It is beyond reason and certainly well beyond accountability. It is the furnace at the core of Judaism in Israel (and often, beyond) that continually demands more ‘fuel’ in the form of suffering and sacrifice from its victims. It is the dénouement of a Greek tragedy in which the God of War demands ‘total retribution’ for some offense while mortals below still cling to the crazy notion that negotiation will save them. It won’t. It can’t; Gods don’t work like that any more than I do with a fly that’s bothering me.

Either Israel is confronted or it will take us all down with it as it tried so hard to do with USS Liberty in 1967.

Julio Santos  "Nobody"'s avatar

The only president who wanted to stop them was JFK but the Zionists at the CIA did'nt convey to him the advancement of the nuclear reactor built at Dimona with the help of France. Sadly after his assassination he was succeded by Zionist Johnson. Following is a quote from "JFK and RFK's Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence" by Ken McCarthy, Rick Sterling

"Israeli leader’s arrogance and deceit are exemplified by the attack on the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War. The communications navy vessel was monitoring the airwaves in the eastern Mediterranean when it was attacked by Israeli aircraft and boats. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed and 172 injured. Amazingly, the ship managed to stay afloat. The plan was evidently to sink the vessel, blame it on Egypt and consolidate U.S. support and hostility to Egypt and the Soviet Union. Lyndon Johnson overruled the calls for help from the vessel, saying, “I will not have my ally embarrassed.” The deadly incident was covered up for decades. [Findings of an independent inquiry into this event appears in this book.] We do not know for sure what might have happened had JFK not been assassinated. It is possible that Israel would have been stopped from acquiring the bomb. Without that, they may not have had the audacity to launch the 1967 attacks on their neighbors, seizing the Golan, West Bank and Gaza Strip. If the Zionist lobby had been required to register as foreign agents, their influence would have been moderated. Perhaps Israel could have found a reasonable accommodation with Palestinians in one or two states. Instead, Israel hardened into an apartheid regime, committing increasingly outrageous massacres. As Kennedy warned in 1960, Israel has become a “garrison state” surrounded by “hate and fear.” The assassination of John F. Kennedy ensured Zionist control of Israel, suffering for Palestinians, and permanent instability."

David Elliott's avatar

And Zionist control of the US too.

wrknight's avatar

It's about f'kg time. We've been played for a patsy for over 50 years. Ever since the 6 day war in 1967 when Israel took over East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula (later returned to Egypt), the nature and intent of the Zionists has been apparent. Yet U.S. administrations, one after another, have kissed the Zionists' asses and supported their aggression using money stolen from American taxpayers and their descendants for generations.

Ingamarie's avatar

You guys better start looking at Mamdani and the benefits of democratic socialism.......get the big money out of politics, stop imagining that countries that don't have your billions to waste on endless primaries and secondaries and goddess knows how many little 'democratic' races.........aren't democratic.

The $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ America wastes to choose between Zionist supporter #1 and pro-Israel #2 would feed the hungry around the world..........and perhaps do more to end war than most of us imagine. Maybe you could pass a law.....for every $1 given to a political party, $2 have to go to doing good somewhere on the planet??? If that's not too 'socialistic' for you.

Cirze's avatar

Tricky considering how easy it is for USA taxpayers to notice how much money the Israelis have been embezzling from them for decades.

Joe Bacon's avatar

Just waiting for Bibi and his stooges to tell Trump and Little Lord Privy Steal Jared NO TRUMP GAZA PLAZA FOR YOU!

Reynold Reimer's avatar

A few trials in the ICC would be in order. Unfortunately, the USA is unlikely to allow them for fear that many of its ruling class would also be charged.

Cirze's avatar

As they legally should be.

Feral Finster's avatar

Turning on an ally? More like yanking the leash.

kristofarian's avatar

when

Mutual

Destruction

becomes an Option

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with these two homicidal lunatics

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can Armageddon

be Far behind?

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it'd

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learn They

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Along

Charles Fox's avatar

Israel is not a U.S. ally. It is a dangerous and expensive liability. That reality has now become impossible to ignore. Zionists are not special. They just think they are.

Claridge's avatar

Valuable insight and perspective, however, Israel-- the government and the people have hardened substantially. Every fight is an existential fight -- more, if they are not fighting they are not fulfilling their God-given mission on earth. Having been shuttled to the side by the US, their desperation will surely peak. They are a nuclear power. Their regard for human life and consequences is de minimis - -and declining with each passing day that the world tolerates the razing in Gaza and Lebanon.

Israel is in a corner, with conventional arms, protection and funding in jeopardy. Quite apart from (and in addition to) the politics of the moment, the entire country is feeling the pressure of a failed war. This is a recipe for disaster.

Cirze's avatar

You misspelled catastrophe.