Increasing US military aid to Israel is usually one of the safest votes
in Congress. This week’s plan to pass such a resolution could be stalled
indefinitely, however, because of the government shutdown.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is planning to push a procedural vote on Tuesday that would keep the Senate from considering any bills until they vote on a House-passed bill to end the government shutdown.
This vote is intended to put pressure on the administration to resolve
the shutdown, and is likely the answer to President Trump saying last
week that the shutdown could last months or even years.
The bill itself is intended to authorize $3.3 billion in US military aid
to Israel, and extend the US War Reserve Stockpile in Israel by five
years, adding another $1 billion to the stockpile, and urging the
president to focus on munitions Israel would want to use in a war
against Hezbollah.
Please tell me why we shouldn’t consider the members of Congress as traitors?
Because Congress no longer makes policy and just does symbolic votes that merely rubber stamp what the corporate fascist state decides inside the think tanks that the billionaires own.
I doubt there are more than a handful in congress that actually know they are just actors.
Traitors to whom? I believe that Chuck Schumer is very loyal to his home country.
And his constituents on K-street and the 52nd state of the Union he represents couldn’t be happier with him !
By “home country” do you mean Brooklyn (where he’s from) or Ukraine (where his ancestors came from)?
The one he seems most loyal to and it ain’t Brooklyn or Ukraine.
“Home” is where your heart is – and in Schumer’s case that would be Israel.
Does he have dual citizenship?!!! Should be banned all those who have dual citizenship! Americans need 100% representation, not dual allegiances!!!!!!!!!!!
“Does he have dual citizenship?!!!”
It’s easy, Google, “congressional dual citizenship”
Of course he does, and that makes him a traitor,
There’s an easy way to get representatives who don’t hold dual citizenship: Only vote for candidates who don’t.
Too many “CRYPTO” candigates, Stealth Candidates whose loyalty & or is murky, tacit & hidden… And if voters could actually check the citizenship status of candidates, secret arrangements would soon be enacted so that who was a citizen, and who was not would be State secrets. Not easy to forego Billions in free money!!!
So get out there and make it hard for Candidate X who doesn’t satisfactorily answer questions to get votes. That’s the only way to weed out the ones you find undesirable.
The qualifications to serve in Congress are clearly laid out in the US Constitution:
“No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. … No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.”
If Congress is really infested with “dual citizens” (I’ve seen a number of lists of alleged “dual citizens,” but have yet to find one with evidence more substantial than “that sounds like a Jewish name”) how do you expect to get 2/3 of both houses to propose a constitutional amendment banning themselves from office?
The only way to solve the problem you think you see there is to not elect them.
Because words mean things. Glad to be of help.
How do you characterize some who betrays? A “betrayer”? No, the commonly used and just as commonly accepted term is “traitor”.
A number of social commentators have tried to make the case that the meaning of “traitor” is illegitimate when extended beyond the legal meaning. But the meaning conferred by common usage is far more frequent, and consequently not just legitimate, but more legitimate.
The American Jewish community has been hoodwinked by the Zionist leadership into unwittingly betraying the US — the country of its citizenship, the country that gave them unprecedented opportunity to live freely, act freely, and prosper — and favor favor a foreign country — Israel — which has pursued its own interests at the expense of the US.
If Israel is not an enemy of the US, it is most certainly a ruthless predator, willing to pursue it’s own interests by comprehensively victimizing an “ally” so subverted that it has become unable to acknowledge its predicament too helpless to defend itself.
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Was it a failed false flag when after Trump announced withdrawal from Syria, Israel was interrupted (by Russia?) from bombing Syria on Xmas day!!! That would have been a hum dinga!!! And don’t forget the USS Liberty! The survivors haven’t!!!!
Thank you, Thomas, for that clarification. So Congress Critters that put their loyality to Israel first should be called what?
How about “Congress Critters that put their loyalty to Israel first?”
Ah, that is much clearer…
I’ve posted a comment in response to Thomas below, which may never appear, having been “moder@ted” out of existence.
It can be found on my blog @ http://whimsicaldog.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-peril-of-divided-loyalty.html
You certainly have the power to censor my speech — dare I say violate my right to speak freely — by censoring my submissions here on AW.C. But you have no such power, nor any kind or right, to censor my speech on my own blog.
And preventing me from telling the other participants here where they can find that “speech”, speech that you consider unacceptable, which assessment I dispute ….. that simply goes beyond what is acceptable in any venue where freedom of speech is honored and protected.
I shall continue, now and again, to tell the rest of the commenting community at AW.C, where they can find my speech, unsuppressed by you.
I have done so multiple times in the past, so hopefully they already know.
If you choose to block me on that account, as you have the power to do, I will appeal that decision to others more superior at AW.C, as I have done before, with success, in an effort to have your decision overturned.
I have been a regular here for twenty years now, substantially longer than you, and engaging with civil (mostly) and thoughtful (hopefully) commentary. So do what you must, and I will do the same.
Actually, we should consider every member of Congress who’s a dual citizen as a traitor, starting with Chucky Schumer. Israel has NO allies, only vassals and enemies. As Jesus said, ” You cannot serve two masters”.
But,,NO money to protect our border from Illegals, drugs and terrorists,,,but at the same time Israel has a extensive WALL and that is fine????? And we give them Billions and they are a rich nation,,,WTF!!!!!
Both immigration and drugs should be legal — there’s nothing to “protect” us from there. And impeding immigration just creates better avenues for terrorists to enter undetected. When you have a million people sneaking in rather than just walking in to work, there’s no way of telling which of the sneakers are al Qaeda operators.
Israel’s wall is certainly interesting. Suicide attacks in Israel went up, not down, after it was built.
Funny how the scapegoat crowd never advocates for stricter penalties for employing undocumented workers.
Israel’s wall isn’t in Israel and in reality is an open air prison complete with tunnels underneath it that prove “walls” don’t work.
Imagine how many undocumented workers were on the Trump payroll at one time or anther.
By your logic, front doors don’t work, we need to put harsher penalties on the burglars. I like to keep my front door thank you, and pass the harsher laws to your community.
By your logic treating the symptom is treating the disease.
What an original response. Perhaps you should leave your door unlocked for few nights. Address please?
Or, better yet, you could quit pretending that a border is “your door.”
Clearly the metaphor train did not stop at your destination. But for the sake of simplicity, let’s just call it America’s door.
OK, for the sake of complexity, let’s call it America’s door.
Who’s America, and what makes you think you get to decide for it whether or not its door is open? The people who set it up did so in a way that required said door to be open. Just because they died, that doesn’t mean you got left in charge to reverse their decision.
The fact that you are clueless about the history of U.S. and it’s many restrictions on immigration starting at least the early 1700’s tells me enough not to go too “deep” with you on this topic.
The problem with your thinking is that you assume that walls or “doors” will keep immigration at bay for those who want to enter this country legally. But statistic can assure you that human smugglers, drug traffickers, cartel hitmen and low skilled unsophisticated people don’t use the front door to enter this country. And even if you are the biggest advocate of low skilled labor trimming your lawn, you need to ask, how many is enough? Will you let few of them crash and sleep in your backyard? CA is already providing rainbow package deal for illegals which actually gives more incentive to break our laws and more importantly ignores the other immigrants that came to this country legally.
Thus you need to ask, how do you, at minimum, deter something which is true. U.S. has been a wonderful host and has given many opportunities to many immigrants over her inception, yet we are still a NATION of laws whether you like it or not.
Just to be clear, the Ayn Rand liberaltarians are not allowed to complain about the U.S. illegal occupation of Syria, Libya and Afghanistan and else where because it’s this very borderless society mindset and illegal immigration cheerleading that has created the the U.S. Frankestein Monster. It’s called setting precedent. Thanks for playing.
The fact that you are clueless about the history of the US and the fact that it didn’t EXIST in the early 1700s (and was founded in the late 1700s partially on the complaint that the Crown was restricting immigration) tells me enough that now I know you’re in no position to go more than about 6 inches “deep” on this topic without drowning.
If by “the scapegoat crowd” you mean the immigration authoritarians, I see them calling for stricter penalties for employers who hire undocumented workers all the time.
Their authoritarianism knows no bounds. If someone tried to conscript them into the military, they’d piss and moan to no end. But conscripting employers as unpaid ICE agents is just fine.
Israel has several walls. And he is referring to the southern border that connects to the African continent.
Correcto! And we’re funding their wall building….
I’m really getting to like this here shutdown… Make it permanent, I say!
So do the corporate fascists who want to take over.
Better corporate fascists than Zio fascists.
Doesn’t change our potential fate one bit.
Rather be robbed than murdered.
Except they’re allies, soooooooo……….
So you get the shiv in the back, yeah I know.
Sure, as long as the military gets added to the gridlock.
Lets hope the medicaid and food stamps stop When they get hungry they will destroys the local stores then start walking home
Chuckles will cave.
Schumer essentially worls for Israel, like thousands in DC. Schumer has called himself “the guardian of Israel.”
This is a valuable reminder that in addition to all aid, the US pays for Israel’s ammo and spare parts and war reserves of material of all kinds. The price is very high. The US just calls it pre-positioned, although it is not in a position for any actual US use.
Israel is rich! Why do we still give them $$$?!!!!!! We’re their lapdogs! Stop it!!!!
Poor little unarmed defenseless Israel. Nobody else matters.
Gotta love how America”s no.1 Welfare Queen is in line to get our money BEFORE American workers from whose pockets the Billions in “AID” is finagled, Extorted, STOLEN… Frontman Shroomer sounding so superior. It sure is something to behold.What a RACKET it is, and every American is cheated. The Frontmen & Enablers get elected to Congress. Once there they make sure our little friend gets Her Billions. Never mind that America is the no.1 debtor nation in the world. Never mind that every dime of our tax dollars is needed here and really Billions more. When our elected officials send our tax dollars to their little friend, wealthy friends of our little friend send “Campaign Money” to the Congressmen & Women who supported sending our little friend the “Free Money” that you and I worked for, and the tax man TOOK..
It’s really a Crime, but no one gets punished, except the VICTIMS……
The American people have gotten extraordinarily tired of the demands, bullying, and blackmail the American government has received from the fully nuclear armed, viciously apartheid, theocracy which is what Israel has become in the 21st century.
And we have one word for you: enough!!
We will provide you no more American military to get slaughtered or maimed for life in the process of “neutralizing” all your alleged existential threats in the Middle East. And of course, as we both know, that includes all of your neighbors in the region.
And on top of that, sir, we would appreciate it greatly if the US government immediately pull all financial and military aid from your country immediately, as all this aid is completely illegal under the Symington Amendment.
We the people would like to see this accomplished and immediately, sir. The days of the host/parasite relationship between the Us government and that of Israel may well be coming to a very abrupt halt, and it is damn well about time, sir!!!
Sun comes up, Israel demands money. Sun goes down, Israel demands money. Moon waxes, Israel demands money. Moon wanes, Israel demands money. Weather is sunny, Israel demands money. Weather is rainy, Israel demands money. I sense a pattern here!