Despite being a MAGA moron heretofore, Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to be taking a principled position on the Israeli Jewish genocide in Gaza. She should be applauded, even though her intentions are obviously opportunistic.
For one, her brand of southern white supremacist racism has traditionally always consisted in part in a virulent form of anti-Jewish racism.
Second, her impulse for taking that position on Gaza stems less from her humanistic compassion for hungry and bombed women and children, and has more to do with nativist isolationist politics that she caters to her ignorant Georgia followers: It's not our war, why are we paying money for other people's wars? The US has always taken an ambiguous approach to wars on foreign lands: In both world wars I and II, the US first supported the aggressor Germans and the Nazis, refused intervention, then joined when the conflict was already nearing its end. How does it square the circle by saying it needs to project its power all over the globe?
Finally, Taylor Greene may be trying to position herself closer to the center in anticipation of upcoming elections. By adopting her unusual position that is counter to the standard utter blind support to the genocidal Zionists of Israel, she hopes to draw some sympathy from left-center Democrat voters.
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Greene issues scathing rebuke of conditions in Gaza: ‘I will not be silent about it’
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) on Saturday continued her crusade against conditions in the Gaza Strip following a declaration of famine in the region by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
“U.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions,” Greene wrote in a Saturday post on the social platform X.
“I don’t know about you, but I don’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,” she added.
The Georgia Republican lawmaker has urged her colleagues to raise their voices on the topic and urge the Trump administration to shift its stance on repeated strikes on Palestinians in the region.
Several world leaders have spoken out against the Israeli government’s actions and said they would take the necessary steps to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed their decisions and maintains that the government’s objective is to eliminate Hamas, the terrorist group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
“The innocent people in Gaza did not kill and kidnap the innocent people in Israel on Oct 7th,” Greene wrote on Saturday.
“Just as we spoke out and had compassion for the victims and families of Oct7, how can Americans not speak out and have compassion for the masses of innocent people and children in Gaza? Is one type of innocent life worthy and another type of innocent life worth nothing?” she asked.
She told her followers, “God sees all innocent lives the same” after slamming the State Department for halting the approval of Gazans’ U.S. visitor visas for groups seeking medical treatment.
Some conservatives have shared objections to her statements.
“Why are you advocating for GAZANS to come to the US? How is Islamic immigration ‘America First’?” Laura Loomer wrote Saturday on X.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) weighed in on Greene’s statements in May, brushing aside the genocidal narrative.
“I [honestly] don’t care what crazy pants thinks,” Fetterman replied. “And why is that news and her views on that right now?”
“It’s not a genocide, you know, that’s just not the case. And she’s entitled to her opinion, but I’m entitled to not really care what her views on that is,” he added later.
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