Greene stabs Trump's Israel diplomacy in the back with attempt to strip Israel of its defense budge

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

It is a curious spectacle when a nation’s leader strides forth to forge alliances, only to find one of his own lieutenants gleefully sawing at the foundations. 

This week, while President Trump shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, cementing a partnership vital to the West’s moral and strategic interests, a member of his own Party was busily undermining that very bond. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, with the zeal of a convert to some obscure isolationist cult, declared her intent to gut military aid to Israel from the National Defense Authorization Act. Half a billion dollars, she announced on Steve Bannon’s "War Room," would be struck from the budget for a nation she insists on branding as “nuclear-armed Israel.”

The idea, it seems, is to leave the Jewish state, and thereby the Jews, defenseless against their sworn enemies.

"There are some parts of this NDAA that I cannot support, and that’s continued foreign aid and foreign funding, and it needs to come out," Fraulein Greene proclaimed, as if the defense of a democratic ally were some frivolous line item, akin to funding a community center’s yoga classes. "I’m entering amendments to strike 500 million more dollars for nuclear-armed Israel. And it’s important to say nuclear-armed Israel, because they do have nuclear weapons." 

One wonders if she imagines Israel’s arsenal as some menacing prop in a geopolitical melodrama, rather than a sober deterrent against existential threats.

This is not a one-off tantrum. Greene’s record betrays a consistent animus toward supporting Israel. She voted against all three aid bills passed in the wake of Hamas’s barbaric October 7, 2023, assault, an attack that should have settled any debate about the necessity of standing by a nation besieged by terrorists. She also opposed legislation to ensure arms sales to Israel continued under the Biden administration, a presidency not exactly renowned for its steadfastness toward Jerusalem.

But Greene’s crusade extends beyond Israel, her sights set on slashing aid to other allies, including $500 million earmarked for Jordan, a nation that, she notes with indignation, already receives $1.6 billion annually from the State Department. "This is not a helpless country, and we already give them $3.4 billion every single year in the state — from the State Department. $3.4 billion every single year. They don’t need another $500 million in our defense budget," she huffed. 

One might ask whether Greene has considered the strategic value of Jordan’s stability in a region perpetually teetering on the edge of chaos, or whether she simply delights in the act of budgetary sabotage.

The House’s consideration of the NDAA is, of course, a theater of amendments, most of which are swatted away by leadership to preserve the bill’s core. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republican stalwarts have rightly championed military aid to Israel as a cornerstone of national security. In April, they secured passage of the Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, funneling $4 billion to replenish missile defense systems, $1.2 billion for Iron Beam defenses, and $3.5 billion for weapons procurement, measures that reflect a clear-eyed recognition of Israel’s role as a bulwark against tyranny.

Yet here stands Greene, a lone dissenter in her party’s ranks, wielding her amendments like a blunt axe. Her actions raise a question that cuts to the heart of the matter: does she truly believe that withdrawing support from allies strengthens America, or is this merely the politics of performative contrarianism? 

Or do her past anti-Semitic statements show us who she really is?

Remember this--in 2018, Greene posted on Facebook about "Jewish space lasers" that she believed were the cause of California's wildfires. These lasers were alleged by her to be connected to the Rothschild banking family, just an old anti-Semitic trope.

Then there was the Holocaust comparisons in 2012 where Greene constantly compared COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, including her equating vaccine logos to the yellow stars Jews had to wear in Nazi Germany.

Greene had also expressed support for QAnon, a conspiracy theory that has anti-Semitic elements, like claiming Jewish elites like George Soros, controls global affairs. Soros, of course, is a leftist creep, but it has nothing to do with him being Jewish. In fact, he's an atheist, so there's that little tidbit.

In 2018, Greene shared the video the "Great Replacement" theory. This alleges "Zionist supremacists" were the ones orchestrating nonwhite immigration to replace white population, another narrative tied to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Also, she claimed Soros collaborated with Nazis, which is false, but of course reinforces disgusting stereotypes. [Did I mention that Soros is a scumwafer?]

Aside from Greene associating with overt anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes and hiring Milo Yiannopoulos as an intern, she also opposed the Antisemitism Awareness Act (2024) and voted against it. She cited a lame excuse that the act could "convict Christians of anti-Semitism" for believing the the Gospel account whereby "Jesus was handed over to Herod to be crucified by the Jews." This is a trope that has historically been used to justify anti-Semitic violence. 

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In a world where moral clarity is often clouded by expediency, her choices suggest a troubling indifference to the stakes. As the West faces enemies who do not pause to debate their own resolve, such gestures of isolationism are not merely misguided, they are reckless.

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