It took the 2nd most heavily funded House primary in US history to unseat a member of the squad. It came in 2nd only because the 1st was to unseat Jamaal Bowman.
The writing is on the wall, AIPAC’s and the pro-fascist Israel lobby’s days are numbered. Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy.
Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy
I want to agree with you on that, but it’s pretty clear that promoting fascism is at least in the short-term very profitable. Plus the money they spend ousting anti-Isreal politicians means they are more likely to get US Military money, so they spend less on their own military, which frees up funds in order to… influence US politics. I don’t like it, but so far it appears to be an effective strategy
I’m not saying that they’ll run out of money, I’m saying that spending in a campaign has diminishing returns. In a single district there’s only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads. Summer Lee was also critical of Israel, but they didn’t even bother to try to unseat her because she wasn’t vulnerable.
Its hard to track down precise numbers but US aid to Bibi is in the range of 12 to 24 billion, so 12,000 to 24,000 million, just since october 7th, 2023.
Then keep in mind that in the last major attack from Iran, Israel itself did almost nothing. The US and its allies, including Jordan, did almost all of the heavy lifting on blocking the attack.
Bibi has money to burn and hes proven three times already that he wants Trump in charge of things.
Regardless of their immediate success, the issue was that they had to do this at all. They didn’t used to have to spend much to unseat a candidate they didn’t like, and now they do. The campaigns they used to unseat both didn’t even attack them over Israel, which says a lot about how the Democrat base feels about the issue. There were also some squad members, like Summer Lee, who are critical of Israel but not vulnerable enough for AIPAC to even bother. Money can only go so far.
It took the 2nd most heavily funded House primary in US history to unseat a member of the squad. It came in 2nd only because the 1st was to unseat Jamaal Bowman.
The writing is on the wall, AIPAC’s and the pro-fascist Israel lobby’s days are numbered. Blowing exhorbitant amounts of cash every time a politician takes an anti-fascist Israel stance isn’t a sustainable strategy.
I want to agree with you on that, but it’s pretty clear that promoting fascism is at least in the short-term very profitable. Plus the money they spend ousting anti-Isreal politicians means they are more likely to get US Military money, so they spend less on their own military, which frees up funds in order to… influence US politics. I don’t like it, but so far it appears to be an effective strategy
I’m not saying that they’ll run out of money, I’m saying that spending in a campaign has diminishing returns. In a single district there’s only so many minds that can be changed by attack ads. Summer Lee was also critical of Israel, but they didn’t even bother to try to unseat her because she wasn’t vulnerable.
Its hard to track down precise numbers but US aid to Bibi is in the range of 12 to 24 billion, so 12,000 to 24,000 million, just since october 7th, 2023.
Then keep in mind that in the last major attack from Iran, Israel itself did almost nothing. The US and its allies, including Jordan, did almost all of the heavy lifting on blocking the attack.
Bibi has money to burn and hes proven three times already that he wants Trump in charge of things.
Takes a lot to look at AIPAC successfully defeating two of their highest priority targets and giving it a negative spjn for AIPAC.
Regardless of their immediate success, the issue was that they had to do this at all. They didn’t used to have to spend much to unseat a candidate they didn’t like, and now they do. The campaigns they used to unseat both didn’t even attack them over Israel, which says a lot about how the Democrat base feels about the issue. There were also some squad members, like Summer Lee, who are critical of Israel but not vulnerable enough for AIPAC to even bother. Money can only go so far.