We’re protecting Middle East oil fields that power commerce & wealth. Problem is burning that oil continues destructive storms & will eventually put port cities underwater. Switching to solar, wind & wave power solves defending oil fields & climate change.

 “An internal dispute within the ranks of the Democratic Party led on Tuesday to the removal of a provision granting $1 billion for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system from a key funding bill. The removal came after behind-the-scenes pressure from several progressive Democratic lawmakers.

The development led to sensational headlines about Democrats rejecting U.S. support for the Iron Dome, but in practice, Israel will still very likely receive the promised $1 billion emergency aid it requested earlier this year. That money, according to Democratic sources on Capitol Hill, will now be attached to a different piece of legislation, the 2022 Defense Appropriations bill. 

The decision on Tuesday means more for Democratic politics surrounding Israel than the Iron Dome funding itself. It came about after lawmakers including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Pramila Jayapal threatened to vote against the funding bill, sources familiar with the matter tell Haaretz. 

If that were to happen, given the razor-thin Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, it would have led to a government shutdown or debt default on September 30. 

The $1 billion in aid, which the Biden administration publicly committed to following May's Gaza war, will now be attached to the final fiscal year 2022 Defense Appropriations bill. 

The impetus behind the progressive pushback wasn't the funding itself, but rather its addition as a provision to the spending bill. The U.S. provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid every year, $500 million of which is for the Iron Dome. Progressives are not necessarily arguing against the necessity of that aid, and no lawmaker has publicly come out against it - although some may do that later on.”

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Progressive Democrats succeed in removing $1 billion Iron Dome funding from bill

Ben Samuels Sep. 21, 2021

I grew up in  1950s Coatesville PA surrounded by wealthy Main Line Chester County Republicans that hated Jews. 

Walter Annenberg  went out of his way to be accepted into the wealthy Main Line society of Philadelphia. Even becoming the Walter Annenberg the U.S. Ambassador to Britain wasn't enough. They wouldn’t let him in because he was a Jew.

“When Walter Annenberg was publishing The Philadelphia Inquirer there was a bronze plaque on his desk. It read: Cause My Works on Earth to Reflect Honor on My Father's Memory. Annenberg remembers. His paper scorched his enemies. From the bastion of his power, he championed men who nursed their grudges -- Frank Rizzo, Richard Nixon -- and he holds grudges, too. People he perceived as questioning his honor -- the Main Line Philadelphians who banned him from their clubs, the diplomats who scorned him as overrich and gauche, the Britishers who laughed at the ripeness of his syntax, the publishers whose papers called attention to his father -- were not soon forgiven.”

Now Jew haters control the GOP.  If Israel was not in the middle of oil fields GOP Christofascist evangelicals would ignore my friends in Israel or worse.

“Tom Faw Driver, the Paul Tillich Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, expressed concern "that the worship of God in Christ not divide Christian from Jew, man from woman, clergy from laity, white from black, or rich from poor". To him, Christianity is in constant danger of Christofascism, stating that "[w]e fear christofascism, which we see as the political direction of all attempts to place Christ at the center of social life and history" and that "[m]uch of the churches' teaching about Christ has turned into something that is dictatorial in its heart and is preparing society for an American fascism”.^[4][5]”

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That billion dollars for the Raytheon Corporation Iron Dome plus many trillions of dollars more needs go towards creating green power to defend not only my friends in Israel but all of us.

The DMV (DC, Maryland & Virginia) is the wealthiest area in the United States

Viewing the wealth of war materials & war intelligence surrounding Washington DC you would think that wealth revolves around building a massive military. 

War industries do not create wealth. Commerce creates wealth.  

The biggest prize in global wealth is the Eurasian Continent 

China is part of the Eurasian Continent.

As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed on Eurasia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia

“... how America "manages" Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates “Eurasia” would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over “Eurasia” would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. About 75 per cent of the world’s people live in “Eurasia”, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. “Eurasia” accounts for about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.”^[10]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt
_and_Road_Initiative

“The initial focus has been infrastructure investment, education, construction materials, railway and highway, automobile, real estate, power grid, and iron and steel.^[21] Already, some estimates list the Belt and Road Initiative as one of the largest infrastructure and investment projects in history, covering more than 68 countries, including 65% of the world's population and 40% of the global gross domestic product as of 2017.^[22][23] The project builds on the old trade routes that once connected China to the west, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta's routes in the north and the maritime expedition routes of Ming dynasty admiral Zheng He in the south. The Belt and Road Initiative now refers to the entire geographical area of the historic "Silk Road" trade route, which has been continuously used in antiquity.^[24] Development of the Renminbi as a currency of international transactions, development of the infrastructures of Asian countries, strengthening diplomatic relations whilst reducing dependency on the US and creating new markets for Chinese products, exporting surplus industrial capacity, and integrating commodities-rich countries more closely into the Chinese economy are all objectives of the BRI.^[25]”

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“In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its bid to extend its hegemony deep into the twenty-first century through a fusion of cyberwar, space warfare, trade pacts, and military alliances. McCoy then analyzes the marquee instruments of US hegemony—covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and worldwide surveillance.

Peeling back layers of secrecy, McCoy exposes a military and economic battle for global domination fought in the shadows, largely unknown to those outside the highest rungs of power. Can the United States extend the “American Century” or will China guide the globe for the next hundred years? McCoy devotes his final chapter to these questions, boldly laying out a series of scenarios that could lead to the end of Washington’s world domination by 2030.”

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power (Dispatch Books) Paperback – September 12, 2017

by Alfred W. McCoy (Author)