Outstanding questions from @jeremyscahill to @RoKhanna on US financing of Israel and how Israel is viewed by US officials.
Lots of Democrats have been forced by political realiites to say things about Israel, but so often their actions don't reflect they really believe it:
Palestinians have a legally enshrined right to armed resistance against the occupation
Zionism as an ideology was for a longtime off-limits. That’s now changed, thankfully
The next redline that must be breached is the moral legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance
This is an incredible exchange, great job @jeremyscahill pointing out the hypocrisy of Ro Khanna on refusing to acknowledge the Palestinian right to attack Israeli soldiers who are mass murdering them and his ongoing support for the iron dome, which Jeremy equates with protecting a sniper.
Appreciate Ro Khanna pushing back against Israeli atrocities but these contradictions needs to be called out.
They want $350 billion for fighting “communism on our own shores.”
This is the single greatest advertisement for socialism and communism.
An economy where workers own the means of production is such a threat to the ruling class that they’re willing to spend billions to stop it.
Khanna: I’m much more Dr. King than Malcolm X
Scahill: Are you much more slave rebellions were justified against people that were raping, hanging, murdering Africans who had been kidnapped?
I mean, I’m sorry, I spend most of my day and night talking w/ Palestinians…
Jeremy: "Do Palestinians have the right to attack Israeli soldiers?"
Ro: No
Jeremy: "Does Israel have a right to drop a single bomb on Gaza?"
Ro: Yes
This is really the ball game
BREAKING: Socialist congressional candidate Kshama Sawant says she'll take on the military-industrial complex, pledging to redirect war tech toward civilian human advancement. The WA-09 hopeful frames her bid as a fight against the war machine.
@cmkshama is running for Congress. antiwar candidate
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Israeli settlers, in general, are the worst scum on earth. They have become so psychotic that Israelis pretend to denounce them, but it's the US-funded IDF which protects and enables them.
If they do this to a US Congressman (with US arms), imagine what they do to Palestinians:
Ro and I visited the destroyed village of Zanuta and the site of an EU-funded school that got burned down by settlers.
It was here that we got intercepted and captured by settlers wielding American-made rifles. The IDF showed up to back up the settlers, not the U.S. congressman.
I’d love to see @cmkshama elected to Washington’s 9th Congressional District & deliver a massive blow to the Israeli dark money machine that is AIPAC.