Massie: American Taxpayers Should Not be Funding Israeli Attacks on Civilian Targets

Tel Aviv should make its own bombs, the Kentucky representative says

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said the U.S. should not be providing weapons to Israel if the IDF is targeting civilian targets.

Finally, a Republican in Washington has the balls to say it.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to social media on Wednesday and posted a video of an apartment building in Beirut being struck by an apparent IDF missile, and wrote: “If Israel insists on destroying civilian targets in Lebanon, let them buy and build their own weapons. American taxpayers should not be funding this.”

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The Biden administration has been fully supportive of Israel’s expanding war and genocide in Gaza, and the Republican Party, which is led by Evangelical extremists, wants even more support for the IDF.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said providing funds for Israel was his first important mission when named speaker. He is seen as a religious extremist whom Netanyahu relies on in the U.S. for support during the genocide in Gaza.

Massie has been one of the only politicians in Washington who has not prostituted himself to AIPAC, and, in June, told Tucker Carlson about the perverse relationship between U.S. lawmakers and the Israel lobby.

He said every Republican except him has a “babysitter.”

“Your AIPAC babysitter who is always talking to you for AIPAC. They’re probably a constituent in your district, but they are, you know, firmly embedded in AIPAC,” he said.

The New Republic summed up how Massie has bucked the pro-Netanyahu Republican Party.

Massie boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July, calling it a “war rally.” He openly criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on attack ads trying to unseat him. He also voted against censuring Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib over her comments criticizing Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

The IDF has conducted extensive strikes across Beirut and, in many cases, claimed that Hezbollah fighters are in these buildings that have been targeted — without providing any evidence.

More than 1,900 people have been killed in Lebanon in the last five weeks.

The Associated Press reported earlier this month that the U.S. has provided Israel with $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since 7 October 2023. The U.S. has provided Israel with $200 billion in military aid since WWII.

TRENDPOST: There is bipartisan support for Israel in Washington, and no matter who wins the 2024 election, the support will remain.

Donald Trump has tried to win over Jewish-American voters and selected a runnningmate in Sen. J.D. Vance who has called for war with Iran.