Progressive Democrats' object to Iron Dome funding

Progressive Democrats' object to Iron Dome funding

What really matters meanwhile the us congress has overwhelmingly voted in favor of replenishing israel's iron dome for the uninitiated the iron dome is israel's lifeline it's an all-weather defense system it intercepts 90 of all rockets coming from gaza for over a decade the iron dome has been funded by the united states this time.

It will receive a cash transfer of 1 billion dollars plus a lot of criticism from the u s a small group of quote unquote progressive diplo democrats has objected they say that by financing the iron dome america is becoming party to what they call human rights abuses in palestine. who are these lawmakers and what is the politics behind this protest.

No matter how divided the u.s congress is or how polarized the lawmakers are nothing unites them like voting in favor of more military aid for israel take their recent gesture for example on thursday the u.s house of representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill to replenish the iron dome which is israel's all-weather air defense system.It intercepts 90 of rockets fired into the country and has been backed by u.s lawmakers since its launch in 2011. this time they green leaked a cash transfer of 1 billion u.s dollars the us house of representatives has approved the decision to transfer one billion dollars to the iron dome another proof that with accurate political work results can be achieved even quickly.

The funding was approved with a comfortable 420 to nine votes but not without some high drama at least eight democrats and one republican voted against the funding plus two democrats voted present which in effect means abstaining. who are these individuals the so-called progressive legislators in the u.s congress ilhan omar ayana presley corey bush marie newman raul grijalva choi garcia all these democrats voted no along with republican thomas macy meanwhile democrats alexandria ocasio-cortez and hank johnson both voted present.

They all blame israel for alleged human rights abuses and want washington to stop funding the iron dome ilhan omar tweeted we should not be running through a last minute 1 billion increase in military funding for israel without any accountability ayanna presley said if we cannot move with urgency on critical domestic spending in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic there's no reason we should move this way on military spending the argument of all those who objected were on similar lines all eight of them called for a review of the north string's attached aid to israel.

The jewish state of committing human rights abuses in gaza driving palestinians away from shaykh zara and for what they called an ever-growing settlement expansion in israel's defense america's pro-israel lobby the i-park released this video of how the iron dome operates.It said that each flush represents the destruction of a rocket destined for civilians rockets that could have killed both jews and arabs.

It's a same old debate israel says it's acting in its defense palestinians say israel's actions trigger rocket attacks american lawmakers remain split and the debate continues bureau report we on wilde is one.