Peloni: Israel’s interests have always been formed around seeking bipartisan support among America’ political elites. Yet, over the years, the weaponization of every aspect of politics, society and culture by the American Left’s obsession with maintaining power has led to support for Israel being very much weaponized within the American political discourse, so much so that now even funding for Israeli defensive tools such as Iron Dome have become intolerable by the ever increasingly radical Left who hold increasingly greater control within the Democratic Party. The solution to the loss of bipartisan support, unfortunately, is not something which might be influenced by Israel, despite the rhetoric of Leftists that Israel controls everything. Instead, the only possible solution will come from within American society where the presence and toleration of radicals will has generated this political shift.
What she doesn’t understand about the Jewish state.
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Photo by nrkbeta – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ SXSW 2019, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikipedia
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon) has in the past declared her opposition to U.S. aid to Israel for defensive weapons. But now, at a moment of maximum peril for the embattled Jewish state, which is engaged in a six-front war, and with the Islamic Republic of Iran having launched more than 300 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state in just the last month, she has gone farther still. She told a meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America that she now opposes all aid to Israel, whether for defensive or offensive weapons. More on her latest display of a deep anti-Israel animus can be found here: “Ocasio-Cortez takes hard-line stance against all military aid to Israel,” by Max Rego, The Hill, April 2, 2026:
Q Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday [April 1] the U.S. should not provide funding for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system, clarifying her position on the issue.
“The Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social platform X. “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 U.S. law.”…
What AOC fails to comprehend is that Israel is not fighting only for itself. When it attacks Hezbollah, it is also helping the government of Lebanon to regain control of its own country from the terror group that for many years has held that government, and the people of Lebanon, in thrall. When Israel responds to Houthi attacks, hitting its weapons and thereby reducing the Houthis’ ability to hit ships in the Red Sea, it is helping keep that strategic waterway open to commercial shipping from dozens of countries. Israel is helping to keep the Red Sea open to commercial shipping. When Israel destroys Iran’s nuclear facilities, its stockpile of ballistic missiles, and its missile plants, it is also helping every country that the mad mullahs have been attacking. After the Little Satan, Israel, Tehran’s most important target is the Great Satan, the United States. The Americans know that if Iran were ever to acquire nuclear weapons and the warheads to deliver them, the East Coast of the United States would be in grave peril. The IDF can now take risks in bringing the war home to Iran because of its certainty of having a robust anti-missile defense.
Since February 28, when Israel’s Operation Roaring Lion and America’s Operation Epic Fury began, Iran has been attacking every one of its Arab neighbors. The last month has shown the Gulf Arab states — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman — that Israel is not their enemy, but rather, their fellow victim of, and protector from, Iran. The Islamic Republic has hit oil and gas production facilities, power plants, desalination plants, electricity grids, chemical plants, in those Arab states, and with each blow from Iran those states quite sensibly draw closer to Israel. AOC turns out to be more anti-Israel than tens of millions of Arabs in the Gulf.
Israel’s defense spending now amounts to $46 billion, which is 12% of its GDP, the highest in the world. Unlike the European members of NATO, who have had to be cajoled and threatened to raise their contribution to the alliance of an amount equal to 5% of their GDP, Israel needs no prodding. It is giving its all in the defense of the West. But that cuts no ice with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Israel has also developed new weapons, including the Iron Dome and the laser-based Iron Beam, that are shared with the American military. Such advances in defensive weapons might not have been made so swiftly had the Americans not contributed to funding them. And if AOC gets her way, not one thin dime will go from America to Israel for any of its weapons.
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