Tags: U.S. military aid to Israel

Inside the Pentagon Plan to Stitch Israel Into American Defense

Section 219 carries the formal name the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” It threads a single foreign country straight into the apparatus that commandeers over a trillion dollars of American firepower. Americans have grown weary of bankrolling other nations’ wars while their own towns go without, and the honest answer is not a slyly buried merger engineered to outlast every vote. The answer is a clean break.

United Methodist Church votes to divest from Israel bonds

In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.