Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.
In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding “Iron Dome and other defensive systems”, and that “consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law”.
Her remarks on Wednesday follow reports that she pledged to oppose any future military aid to Israel during a New York City Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) forum on Tuesday evening.
“Our allies who need our military aid must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment and the foreign assistance act”, Ocasio-Cortez added, referring to a law which prohibits the US from providing military support to army units that violate human rights.
According to City & State, which obtained a partial recording of the DSA forum, Ocasio-Cortez told members: “I have not once ever voted to authorize funding to Israel, and I will never,” adding that “the Israeli government should be able to finance their own weapons if they seek to arm themselves.”
If their plan is to block future US military aid to israel why are they running for a party that vowed to give israel whatever it needs?
Because the reality right now is our system is fundamentally broken, and running as an independent is political suicide due to how the platform works and how people who don’t pay attention to politics tend to vote.
I’m definitely an idealist, but over the last few years have to admit that reality doesn’t match what if love to see and we have to let individuals in positions to push change work from within the system sometimes.
If a “good” guy running for republicans were to show up everyone would still give him shit for being a member of the red party, the same should apply for the democrats party.
Political suicide doesn’t mean shit, you are not going to die running as an independent at worst you are not getting featured in mainstream medias because these are centralized and rigged and only talk and give exposure to certain politicians.
Aoc keep using twitter and doesn’t have a mastodon account, to me it looks like this person doesn’t have any intention to change the system and it’s actually benefiting from it.
If lemmy devs had used the “political suicide” logic they would be working at reddit trying to make it less evil and you wouldn’t be here.
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md#whats-wrong-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
Because there is a deep divide in the party. The voters are turning on Israel in massive numbers. The leadership has not changed position.
The solution is new leadership, like AOC, that reflects the will of the voters. That’s how democracy is supposed to work, in theory.
The alternative is doubling down for Israel and further fracturing the Democratic base. I’m not voting for Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or any other pro-genocide candidate in 2028, “lesser of two evils” be damned.
As a member of the democratic party they run under the leadership of the democrat party.
AOC tends to submit to party politics, but it’s important to understand that you don’t need to do that to run under a party’s name. Parties in America don’t get to control their membership and there’s on paper at least no mechanism to enforce intraparty compliance. It’s more accurate to say that she runs as a Democrat than that she runs for Democrats.
AOC is a member of the democrats, she’s not independent, she runs for democrats.