Israel's Man in Congress Mike Johnson Wants $17.6 Billion of Taxpayer Money to Fund Genocide in Gaza
Israel's Man in Congress Mike Johnson Wants $17.6 Billion of Taxpayer Money to Fund Genocide in Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relies on Evangelical support in the U.S.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a major player in the Evangelical-Christian pro-Israel movement in the U.S. who reportedly holds ties to Israel's far-right, said Saturday that the House will vote on a “clean, standalone,” $17.6 billion aid package for Israel next week.
Ben Samuels posted on X: “House Speaker Mike Johnson holds ties to Israel's far right — traveling on a private visit organized by a top settler, meeting with the group behind Israel's judicial overhaul and touring the Temple Mount with an activist against maintaining the status quo.”
“While the Senate appears poised to finally release text of their supplemental package after months of behind closed doors negotiations, their leadership is aware that by failing to include the House in their negotiations, they have eliminated the ability for swift consideration of any legislation," Johnson warned. "Given the Senate's failure to move appropriate legislation in a timely fashion, and the perilous circumstances currently facing Israel, the House will continue to lead. Next week, we will take up and pass a clean, standalone Israel supplemental package."
Johnson wasted no time to let the American public know that his first measure of business as Speaker was to “support” Israel.
“Our nation’s greatest ally in the Middle East is under attack — the first bill that I am going to bring to this floor, will be in support of our dear friend Israel. And we’re overdue in getting that done,” the Louisiana Republican said to cheers from Congress.
“We’re going to show, not only Israel, but the entire world that the barbarism of Hamas that we have seen play out on our television screens is wretched and wrong and we are going to stand for the good in that conflict,” he said.
Haaretz published an illuminating report that could offer a glimpse into Johnson’s decision to list Israel as his top agenda item as speaker in an article titled, “New House Speaker Mike Johnson, an Evangelical Christian, Holds Ties to Israel’s Far Right.”
The paper wrote that his selection was “the most significant victory to date for evangelical Christians’ pro-Israel movement.”
The paper noted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relies on Evangelical support in the U.S. as his own government moves to the right and was losing some support from American Jews. The 7 October attack by Hamas only moved the “pro-Israel Evangelical” even more “vocally pro-Israel.”
The report pointed to a trip that Johnson took to Israel in 2020 with a group whose CEO is a “social media activist named Avi Abelow, who emigrated from New York more than 30 years ago at age 18 and lives in the West Bank settlement of Efrat.”
During his trip, he visited Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and called it a “fulfillment of biblical prophecy.”
Ben Samuels, the author of the Haaretz article, posted on X: “House Speaker Mike Johnson holds ties to Israel's far-right — traveling on a private visit organized by a top settler, meeting with the group behind Israel's judicial overhaul and touring the Temple Mount with an activist against maintaining the status quo.”
Mother Jones reported:
Johnson traveled to Israel with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). The sponsor for this trip was the New York-based 12Tribe Films Foundation, a small outfit that that describes itself as “online warriors for truth about Israel and the Jewish people.” The organization spent $34,520—about one-quarter of its revenue that year—to fly the two lawmakers and their wives to Israel and host them for the week-long trip. The itinerary included visits to the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, and Hebron, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as well as meetings with Israeli military officials, business owners, and political leaders—including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the right-wing Likud Party. The two congressmen also received a briefing from the Kohelet Policy Forum, a far-right Israeli think tank that would later help cook up the Netanyahu administration’s controversial plan to weaken the country’s judiciary.
The Kikestocracy is alive and well. That has to change.