A bill introduced in the House by Reps. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) and Max Miller (R-OH) would extend certain benefits for Americans serving in the US military to American citizens in the Israeli military.
The legislation, introduced on May 17, would give Americans in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) protections under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
The SCRA protects US service members from civil legal action while they’re on active duty and for up to a year after. The USERRA protects the civilian employment of active and reserve military personnel when they’re called to active duty.
“Over 20,000 American citizens are currently defending Israel from Hamas terrorists, risking their lives for the betterment of our ally,” Reschenthaler said in a statement on the legislation.
The Washington Post reported in February that an estimated 23,380 American citizens are serving in the Israeli military. Many are dual citizens who were already living in Israel, but as of November 2023, about 10,000 people living in the US had traveled to Israel to report for duty with the IDF after receiving draft notices. According to Responsible Statecraft, 21 American citizens serving in the IDF have been killed in Gaza, and one was killed in northern Israel near the Lebanon border.
Reschenthaler said his legislation will “ensure we do everything possible to support these heroes who are standing with Israel, fighting for freedom, and combating terrorism in the Middle East.”
It’s unclear what the chances are for Reschenthaler’s bill to pass Congress and become law, but there is strong support for the Israeli military among House Republicans. For example, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) is an IDF veteran who recently wore his Israeli uniform on Capitol Hill, and he did not receive any backlash from his colleagues for showing up to work in the House wearing the uniform of a foreign military.
Republicans have introduced a slew of pro-Israel legislation over the past few months to show staunch support for the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, including bills to impose harsh punishments on college protesters. One bill introduced by Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) would send protesters to Gaza.
The US political class is chock full of stinking traitors more loyal to Israel than to the United States.
I fully concur DJH2.
Money talks and bs….
Is it only the money?
I think Mossad capture of the CIA, care of James Angleton, has a lot to do with it as well.
But the mainstream media says the notion that pro-Israel shareholders dominate the Federal Government is a baseless conspiracy theory! I saw it on CNN. And Fox!
They dominate the media as well.
They have lost the MORAL HIGROUND & Like THE NAZIS WILL BECUM SICK OUTCASTS AND BE IN HISTORYS DUSTBIN. It is ten or twenty THOUSANDS OF DEAD WOMEN AND CHILDREN PAST TIME TO CALL THESE ZIONISTS WHO HAVE BECUM NAZIS IN ALL BUT NAME OUT FOR THEIR GENOCIDE PROJECT IN GAZA & DESTRUCTION OF ITS HOUSING LIFE SERVICES AS MONSTERS THEY HAVE BECUM……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY DON’T YOU USE MORE ALL CAPS AND EXCLAMATION MARKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU SAY?!?!?!?! THAT WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY CHANGE THINGS!!!!!!!!!
I don’ t know how to reply, but that expressing my outrage in the most far reaching method available is my aim. I understand as you have pointed out in the past, that employing caps is the equivalent of shouting. And it is from rooftops I wish to shout. To whisper of incest or child abuse may be fitting in the family or even the street. However when the Jewish State has killed or would “murdered” seem more of an appropriate verb to use in this case. Where they have killed more than half as many of these people of Gaza as the Amrrican lives lost in the twenty years
Our elected government consists of corrupt criminal idiots no better than the lowest banana republic’s so-called regime. Many were picked and put in office by the same people that picked our corrupt criminal officials and Biden and Trump.
The same is true for the NATO and EU scum. So much coincidence of corruption and incompetence of elected governments is not normal.
Would they extend that to other dual nationals ?
I know some promotional materials they can (re)use https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e525a76041911708145e49b2ed03594f8618de167eb481d23e0533c1fc08a5f2.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dc63eb8056b2dfb7c7290b99797456bbbcee75b1cd165032e28934e95f20a045.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6b4727ea4139cf945633669807472e1af3629b7ab00149be679059a8afd7c18d.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b097591eb8dfee499692956ef2543b667542bfc1e1905b4aef236e0ec9fd5987.jpg
Who’s the last pic? Supremacists or evangelicals?
Does it really matter anymore?
BINGO!
20,000 U.S. citizens fighting in the IDF ?
They sure going to have a heart attack when the IDF gets declared a joint criminal enterprise by the international community.
Listen to those ICJ hearings from last week if you doubt my prediction.
Let’s hope; but this story gives the measure of, not only the degeneracy of our polscum, but their absolute confidence in their impunity. And I almost despair of ever ridding ourselves of this ruling Neocon-nazi elite.
WOW WHAT A JOLT. It sounds like the IJC MAY ACTUALLY BE FOLLING THE LAW AND NOT BIDEN/NETANYAHU EDICS…… Bout time they do their job and right thing. It’s been a long excruciating wait as the bodies of GENOCIDED WOMEN & Children PILE UP IN MEGA-HEAPS!
Sarcasm: Why not give benefits to US “allies” in Syria’s al Qaeda? /sarcasm
And whatever happened to “The Kurds, The Kurds, The Kurds” we couldn’t abandon?
Or our personal Foreign Legion, ISIS.
Or the soon-to-be terrorist group: Ukrainian Nazis. The US has wanted Klansmen and Nazis to fight for decades, and finally it has some to trot out on stage to play whatever role is desired.
Why not add an all expense paid vacation in a 5 star hotel, too?
When did Israel run out of soldiers? Netanyahu’s son still chilling in Florida?
Yep. Wonder if his pad is near Zelenski’s.
AIPAC money knows no national borders. These corrupt congresspeople are the scum of the earth, and should never win another election.
I like to call them, what others do: Congress Critters!…;-)
Everywhere I look on the internet I see articles about the “poor Jews” and the antisemitism that has just “crushed” them. Never mind that the protests are over Israel committing genocide, live, documented. When Amos Goldberg, professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, says that Israel is committing genocide, it means it is a fact, not conjecture. AIPAC money and influence is throwing around millions. Millions. To quiet news of the atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank. The Uniparty in the U.S. is lapping it up to protect their dear jobs. Disgusting. Professor Goldberg also said, about antisemitism, that “It has become a tool to silence any criticism of Israeli politics, it has become a tool to silence free speech”.
YES, IT IS A SAD THING THING TO WORRY ABOUT A LEAKY SPIGOT WHEN THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE OR PEOPLE HAVING A BAD ATTITUDE TOWARDS JEWS WHEN THEIR GENOCIDE RAGES PAST 30,000 DEAD WOMEN & MOSTLY CHILDREN ON “THE VALUABLE WATERFRONT PROPERTY” ISRAEL IS CLEANSING WITH THEIR GENOCIDAL WAR ON THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THERE.
Our AMERICAN GRAFTED TAX DOLLARS AT WORK FOR ISRAELI GENOCIDE……!!!!!!!!
In a country with representatives of any level of self respect, serving in a foreign country’s army would lead to automatic revocation of citizenship. After all, what is a more definitive abandonment of a person’s citizenship than choosing to serve in a foreign military?
How do the fools keep getting elected?
Ever heard of John Paul Jones?
Jones was considered a traitor to his King.
Wasn’t JPJ the guy who defended himself to a charge of beating and raping a 10 year old by claiming that he paid the girl for consensual sex several times and that the victim was really 12?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones
Yes …? was he a US citizen? And, if so, he should have ceased being one once he formally fought for Russia.
“23,380 American citizens are serving in the Israeli military.”
Traitors, the lot. That’s what Scott Ritter will call them; that’s what he called Rep. Mast. Their citizenship needs to be revoked. Failing that, hopefully Hezbollah will kill the lot of them eventually when it destroys Israel.
A post I just made on Twitter in response to Ryan Grim’s report:
So it’s not enough for the US to starve Gazans, it wants to starve the whole world for Israel, too. Is anyone surprised? Get a clue. ZIONISTS OWN THE ENTIRE US GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICE AND THE UNIVERSITIES!
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim
6hBilal Hammoud and a handful of Arab American leaders met with Antony Blinken Friday. Blinken told them that if Palestine became a state, federal law would mandate the defunding of the UN, which could then defund the World Food Program, causing global starvation.
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1792945760603869664
Guy Reschenthaler represents an area of PA that only claim to frame is its coal mines and natural gas fields. I know the area well. I would be surprised if a total of 10 men from that area served in the IDF. The one synagogue in the area is up for sale and closing. So why is he doing this?
In any case it is a bad idea.
I’ve been out there. You see a lot of Israeli flags flown by people who don’t know the difference between Shabbat and Seder.
AIPAC finds the best candidates who will sell out their country for money and power.
Let’s see, is subsidizing US citizens committing war crimes in the IDF another act of complicity in Genocide? Does the ICC have a Tip Line?
And they tell us dare not question their loyalty.
Dude, your comment is antisemitic. /s
Ops . I crossed the line.
“By their deeds you will know them. Does a man gather grapes from thorns or figs from briars?”
Matthew 7:16
I’m pretty sure the New Testament is also “anti-Semitic” these days, according to the federal government
Oh YES, THE WORD OF CHRIST & DECIPLES IS BEING DROWN OUT BY OLD TESTAMENT GENOCIDE STORIES & AN EYE FOT AN EYE FOR AN EYE RETRIBUTION. THEY NOT ONLY WANT TO ERASE THE CHILDREN BUT THEY WANT TO ERASE CHRISTIANITY. MANY OF GENOCIDED PALESTINIANS WERE CHRISTIANS, BUT BOMBS NEVER ASK ONES FAITH!!!!!
The truth always hurts in wartime!!!
Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of aid trucks delivering vital supplies to Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources.-https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-soldiers-and-police-tipping-off-groups-that-attack-gaza-aid-trucks
The Biden administration is willing to work with Congress to potentially impose sanctions against international criminal court officials over the prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the Gaza war, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, said on Tuesday.
At a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing, Republican Lindsey Graham told Blinken he wanted to see renewed US sanctions on the court in response to the move announced by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on Mond.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/21/blinken-icc-court-prosecutor-warrant-netanyahu
Why is the west defending Israel after the ICC’s request for Netanyahu’s arrest warrant?
Kenneth Roth
This would be a slap in the face to everyone who has served, or is serving, in the US military in the defense (whether or not you see it as ‘defense’ or something else is a matter of debate, but I digress…) of OUR nation. To extend benefits (paid for by US taxpayers) to those serving another nation is or surpasses criminal activity. You might as well extend those same benefits to Americans serving in the armed forces of the Ukraine or any number of other corrupt little tin-pot country- and you’ll get exactly the same amount of scorn for it. Try it. Serving in the IDF as an American is no different from serving as a straight-up mercenary, and just as reprehensible.
Just no, and what is this ally stuff? What treaty?
A better question is, why are Americans fighting to defend someone else’s country?
“ In recordings obtained by The Grayzone, a self-proclaimed soldier from Israel’s infamous Netzah Yehuda battalion detailed his unit’s killing of a 78-year-old Palestinian-American, and flaunted his genocidal views. After announcing plans to sanction the battalion, the Biden administration has inexplicably pulled back.”
Could this soldier be one of those would be receiving such benrfits.
I think the GOP needs to check our constitution and immediately! You cannot serve two countries, you can only serve YOUR COUNTRY! You love Israel so damn much, buy a ticket and move there and let your own asses hang out in the breeze but not ANY OF OURS!
And Another Thing:
Free, free Palestine! Now!!!
And stop giving OUR hard earn taxes away to Israel!
US MONIES TO ISRAEL THUS FAR:
300 Billion Dollars
and what do we get?….. Peace? NO!
I’m fine with this as long as it is never extended to other countries, like Ukraine. I’m pretty much antiwar across the line with a big hypocritical exception for Israel because of our shared religious history.
…..an estimated 23,380 American citizens are serving in the Israeli military.
wow you couldn’t make that shit up. i bet that if an American citizen even shook the hand of a Russian citizen he would be charged with treason.
“ Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) offered Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) an ultimatum this week: join his letter inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, or the House will move ahead with an invitation on its own.”
https://news.yahoo.com/johnson-gives-schumer-ultimatum-netanyahu-200241241.html
The fiendish and anti-American behavior of these “for sale” buffoons is a real tragedy. The IDF are master child killers, and mass murderers. Please deport these malcontents before they start WW3.
Oh what a great tome to give moral support to the perpetrators of this U.S. Israeli GENOCIDE OF THE PALESTINIANS. Too bad for them that they are losing & lost the war of words in Europe. Germany is a big loss, even the GENOCIDE FRIENDLY GERMANS sre jumping off this sinking ship of state inflicted TERRORIST GENOCIDE ON THE HELPLESS MOSTLY WOMEN & CHILDREN…
JUST AS IT WAS NAZISM IN GERMANY THAT WAS THE PROBLEM THEN, IT IS ZIONISM THAT IS THE PROBLEM NOW. Not. The Palestinians or HAMAS.. The sooner we wake up to this the sooner the killing will END.
Special Benefits for the genocide IDF soldiers while US veterans served in Iraq, Afghanistan and other ME locations suffer from physical disabilities, live on streets and homeless with no benefits whatsoever…!
The Israelis, a wealthy nation, are blood suckers. Let them finance their wars themselves. AIPAC should have no problem funding the wars for Israel if they fire their lobbyists.