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GOP firebrand accuses Israel of using US taxpayers’ money ‘to pay for genocide’ in Gaza
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Far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene launches a scathing attack on Israel from her official X account, accusing it of using US military aid “to pay for genocide” in the Gaza Strip.
In a lengthy post, the Georgia congresswoman asks Americans to imagine themselves in the shoes of Gaza’s civilians, 22 months into Israel’s war against Hamas.
“If America was being bombed day and night because of something horrific our government did, and many innocent Americans and American children were being killed and traumatically injured, and we begged for mercy, but the rest of the world said, ‘Americans voted for their government so they deserve it, their government is bad so all Americans are bad, therefore this is what they get and must be done…’ how would you feel? What would you think? What would you do?” she writes.
“This is what is happening to Gaza where in spite of what we have all been told, many innocent people and children are being killed and they are not Hamas,” continues Greene.
“Does Hamas deserve it? Yes. Do innocent people and children deserve it? No,” she writes, asking why people can’t have the same “compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza” as they had for victims of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre.
“US taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every US taxpayer is contributing to Israel’s military actions,” she asserts, adding that she doesn’t want “to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with. And I will not be silent about it.”
Last month, Greene became the first Republican lawmaker to use the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
The Times of Israel Community.