{"id":15958,"date":"2024-02-23T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/aoc-suggests-cutting-off-aid-to-israel-after-u-s-vetoes-ceasefire-resolution\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:50:50","slug":"aoc-suggests-cutting-off-aid-to-israel-after-u-s-vetoes-ceasefire-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/aoc-suggests-cutting-off-aid-to-israel-after-u-s-vetoes-ceasefire-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC suggests cutting off aid to Israel after U.S. vetoes ceasefire resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested the U.S. should consider cutting off aid to Israel on Thursday when she was confronted by a constituent about the U.S. vetoing a United Nations ceasefire resolution.<\/p>\n

The progressive \u2018Squad\u2019 Democrat made the comments during a town hall to discuss the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think it is completely wrong,\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez said of the veto. \u2018I think that it is an outrage that we said that we would send our top diplomat to veto a ceasefire resolution that has essentially been agreed to by every other actor and only abstained by one. I think it is against our values.\u2019<\/p>\n

She targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu specifically, who leftists have attacked over his response to Hamas\u2019 Oct, 7 surprise attack that saw just over 1,000 people, mainly civilians, killed.<\/p>\n

\u2018I believe that not only should we be advocating for a ceasefire, I believe that we have to at bare minimum being conditioning aid, if not cutting aid, to the Netanyahu government, which has shown no regard for human life in Gaza,\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n

Her comments were met by applause from the audience.<\/p>\n

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians, has said more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel\u2019s response to the invasion.<\/p>\n

Progressives have been critical of the Biden administration\u2019s continued support for Israel and it\u2019s even inspired waves of Muslim Americans to campaign against his re-election. President Biden himself has pressed for restraint, but his left wing has argued it\u2019s not far enough.<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez, for example, called for the U.S. to \u2018wind down\u2019 its support to Israel \u2018in order to prevent additional loss of life.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018This has been atrocious. It is very clear that the language of ethnic cleansing is being invoked against Palestinians and innocent people,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. vetoed a United Nations ceasefire resolution for the third time earlier this week, arguing it could have adverse effects on ongoing negotiations to free Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. Thirteen countries voted in support of the resolution, and the United Kingdom abstained.<\/p>\n

The issue of Israel and the U.S.\u2019s relationship with its Middle Eastern ally has driven a wedge within the Democratic Party, with younger leftists calling to shun longstanding diplomatic ties over Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ocasio-Cortez has been among the growing number of progressives calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, a position that has put her at odds with both American Jewish groups as well as moderates within her own party.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday she clashed with the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a Jewish lobbying group, over a social media post that mentioned her and several other lawmakers with the caption, \u2018A cease-fire now keeps these rapist monsters armed and in power in Gaza.\u2019<\/p>\n

She responded, \u2018It is appalling that AIPAC is targeting women members of Congress who have survived sexual assault with this horrific rhetoric. Each and every day, their role in U.S. politics becomes a greater scandal. They are the NRA of foreign policy. Of course they don\u2019t want a cease-fire.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested the U.S. should consider cutting off aid to Israel on Thursday when she was confronted by a constituent about the U.S. vetoing a United Nations ceasefire resolution. The progressive \u2018Squad\u2019 Democrat made the comments during a town hall to discuss the Green New Deal. \u2018I think it is completely wrong,\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}