US Veterans' Benefits payments as a % of Total US Defense Department spend, 1959-present.
Veterans' Benefits now a record 27% of DoD spend (and ~8% of total US Federal receipts), rising far faster than both DoD spend & Federal receipts.
Daniel Levy | Former Israeli Peace Negotiator | US/Middle East Project (@USMEP):
Antisemitism is real. But weaponizing the term to shield Israeli policy & Zionism from scrutiny actually undermines its seriousness.
Zionism, like any ideology, should be open to scrutiny & should be interrogated.
Zionism has led to decades of no peace, decades of Palestinian displacement & regional instability.
And it hasn't delivered better security for Jewish people - in Israel or overseas.
But the Israel lobby keeps doubling down on brute-force politics to stop critics.
$XOM CFO Neil Hansen sent an 11-page letter to the @SECGov in support of eliminating quarterly earnings. When a mega company like Exxon Mobil thinks it's OK to do this, it gives cover to all of the other large companies. https://t.co/COY6WeYKIZ