The way AIPAC works is that it lobbies the US government to create free money (which requires Congress and Senate approval) and give them to Israel, which in turn allows the AIPAC lobbyists to use those same money to bribe US politicians, completing the circular flow of the US foreign aid funding and coming back to the US politicians’ and their proxies’ pockets.
Of course they’re going to keep letting it happen. In other words, Israel is a money laundering front, and both the Democrats and the Republicans have stakes in it.
This is what West Wing brain gets you. The behind the scenes report about Biden was that he said he was going to help Israel without any consideration for how it would hurt his approval ratings, or whether Netanyahu would even show gratitude, because it was The Right Thing to Do ™. He probably pictured himself as Jed Bartlett and came his slacks while saying that, and now he's finally in a refractory period, sitting in the mess he's made on himself.
Biden's far too old to have ever seen The West Wing. That's an Obama staffer thing. But he for sure is huffing the same civil religion that Andy Sorkin was cooking.
It's so cool that I used to read about Imperial Japan being sucked into an unwinnable forever war because it wasn't politically expedient to put it's foot down against its own colonial gendarmes and now I get to watch the US do the same in real time.
"history doesn't repeat but it rhymes" is honestly one of my favourite phrases bc of how concisely it encapsulates the dialectical materialist critique of metaphysical/cyclical models of history.
lmao why, do they not know what's gonna happen? bibi's going to get up there and bitch and moan that there's still money that the US isn't giving Israel and that other countries have said some very very mean things about the genocide they're doing
You’re literally the white house lol. The home of the most powerful person, so they say. You can literally just tell Netanyahu to fuck off or shoot down his plane
blue team president smol bean can't do anything it's up to congress but when orange man bad president most powerful man in the world singlehandedly destroying democracy