Israel and Ukraine Are Linked, and the US Must Stand With Both
Bundling support for the two countries in one legislative package shouldn’t be necessary, provided even House Republicans admit what’s at stake.
Hail to the yellow, white and blue.
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Almost without exception, lawmakers from both parties in Congress are eager to give Israel whatever it asks, from missiles to dollars. And that is as it should be, for Israel just became the victim of unspeakable barbarity and now needs stalwart support.
But in the very next breath, some of those same US legislators, mainly Republican extremists in the House who are beholden to former president Donald Trump, want to deny Ukraine what that beleaguered country needs to survive as a nation. These MAGA demagogues don’t want to accept that Ukraine too is the victim of unimaginable — and indeed genocidal — aggression. Point out the inconsistency, and they’ll protest indignantly that the two conflicts mustn’t be linked, for they are, as a far-right think tank puts it, “separate and distinct.”