Military aid vote shows the double standard and the real agenda.
Last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress introduced H.Res.776: a resolution expressing concern about the persecution of Coptic Christians under Egypt’s Islamic regime.
The resolution has only picked up 8 cosponsors and has yet to make it out of committee.
By contrast, 103 House Democrats voted in favor of the Massie amendment to cut aid to Israel out of H. R. 8595 which also apportions $1.4 billion to Egypt and $1.6 billion to Jordan.
Meanwhile an amendment to zero out the $1.4 billion in military aid to Egypt never even made it out of the House Rules Committee while none of the Democrats who voted to cut off aid to Israel voted in favor of a similar amendment to cut off aid to Jordan, a totalitarian monarchy which harbors Islamic terrorists, including those who have murdered Americans, by 421-6.
The inability of resolutions and amendments critical of Egypt to make it out of committee comes a year after Sen. Bob Menendez was sent to prison over bribery and foreign agent charges, for taking “actions to benefit the Government of Egypt” and even “ghostwriting a letter for Egypt to be provided to his own Senate colleagues”: but that led no congressional action against Egypt.
Both Israel and Egypt aid use the ‘Foreign Military Financing Program”. There are, however, profound differences between Israel and Egypt. Israel has been a longstanding American ally while Egypt was a Soviet ally until the 1970s. Israel and America have cultural and religious ties while Egypt is one election away from becoming an Islamic terror state… as we saw in 2012.
Before his death, 1 in 5 Egyptians had expressed “confidence” in Osama bin Laden, about half of them support Hamas: a spinoff of the Muslim Brotherhood that was transplanted into Gaza.
Last year, Egypt and China conducted the joint ‘Eagles of Civilization’ air force drill. And Egypt has also taken to buying weapons systems from the People’s Republic of China. Despite that, the United States continues providing advanced weapons systems to Egypt, including nearly $5 billion in M1A1 tank upgrades conducted in Egypt, whose only possible target could be Israel.
Or perhaps the United States.
With an 83% favorable rating, the Israelis like us, while most Egyptians don’t like us and don’t even want our aid..In one survey a decade ago, 58% of Egyptians had a negative view of our military aid while only 10% had a positive one. It’s not surprising then that Christians continue to be a persecuted minority in Egypt despite making up 10% of the country’s population.
The persecution of Christians in Egypt has been a longstanding issue and includes both mob violence directed against Christians trying to build churches and worship in them that has led to incidents of ethnic cleansing as well as oppression that comes from Egyptian law and from the Egyptian state. The Egyptian constitution, like those of most Muslim countries, states that, “Islam is the religion of the State” and “Islamic law (Sharia) is the principal source of legislation”.
Egyptian ID cards include every individual’s religion making it easy to discriminate against Christians. Christians must apply for permission to build churches, preachers have been imprisoned for defending their religion in debates and Christian converts are threatened.
And yet aid to Israel is controversial, over ‘human rights’ while aid to Egypt sails through.
A number of Democrats claimed that they voted to end aid to Israel to ‘send a message’ to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but none felt impelled to send a message to Egypt’s government despite the State Department and the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reporting multiple incidents in which Christians were sent to prison for their religion: including a prisoner who was placed in solitaryconfinement for copying bible verses.
But 103 Democrats believe that a Muslim country locking up Christians deserves $1.4 billion in aid while Israel has to be cut off because it’s bombing too many Hamas Islamic terrorists.
The Democrats who voted to cut off aid to Israel, complained about ‘democracy’, even though elections bring actual changes of government in Israel, while in Egypt they’re meaningless.
After being briefly run by the Muslim Brotherhood during Obama’s Arab Spring, Egypt is once again being run by the military. The same Democrats who have been scolding Israel and claiming that it’s undermining a “democratic future” by refusing to surrender to terrorists have generally failed to note that Egypt, just across the Gaza border, is run by political parties that act as fronts for the army, the police, militias and other elements of an authoritarian regime.
Egypt and Israel are fighting Islamic terrorists around 30 miles apart from each other.
Israel originally began fighting Hamas in Gaza. Egypt has been fighting on the other side of the border in North Sinai. Both conflicts intensified due to the fallout from the brief Muslim Brotherhood coup in Egypt. Weapons were smuggled in and out of Gaza, leading to street violence in Egyptian cities and an insurgency in the Sinai that involved Islamist groups, local Bedouin tribes and eventually ISIS. Egypt and Israel have fought their respective conflicts similarly with air strikes, ground deployments, and house demolitions. Both militaries have been accused by Islamist media of killing civilians. But only one of those led to a worldwide campaign on behalf of the Islamic terrorists. And with equal predictably, it was the one in which the conflict was between fellow Muslims, rather than between non-Muslims and Muslims.
The lack of any vote on Egypt shows that this isn’t about ‘democracy’ or ‘human rights’, it’s not about sending a message to a government, it’s about pandering to Islamist terrorist agendas.
In Egypt, 10 million Christians face persecution, lack equal rights and risk prison for speaking about their religion, and yet Democrats are willing to keep sending $1.4 billion in military aid.
The few Democrats who mention the human rights situation in Egypt generally focus on the status of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned after staging its coup, rather than on the millions of Christians who aren’t trying to take over Egypt, just to worship in their own way.
The message from House Democrats is that Christian lives don’t matter and Jewish lives don’t matter, only Islamic Jihadist lives and agendas do.
somehistory says
We may not know every thing listed on their “agenda.” But it all adds up to support of evil….muzzie evil being a top priority.
And helping the evil by ripping support from those who fight it and from the victims of it.
Proves where their hearts lie….as their lips tell lies.
abu taleb says
This is a war against Christianity.
somehistory says
Yes, it is. Just like Jesus said.
ploome says
if Jesus said that….he was talking about Jews, his people, his followers
there was no Christianity during Jesus time
Cynthia says
Unfortunately, we have to play geopolitical games to keep China and Russia from being the dominant purveyor of weapons and influence.
The only western nation that values all lives, Israel is singled out for condemnation.
Why doesn’t our government make it known how much Israel supports the US with advanced weapons technology and intelligence that helps us stay on top in-the region?
mark c says
BRICS + WAICO ( World artificial intelligence cooperation organization)+ CCP’s Moonshot Kimmi K3 ( a 2.8 trillion parameters AI)….check these out .troubles a brewin’
tgusa says
In 2026, U.S. national debt ranged from about $38.56 trillion in February to roughly $39.5 trillion by June–July 2026, according to U.S. Treasury and Joint Economic Committee data.
Our government is spending taxpayer money they dont have and in the process they are screwing the younger generations. Screwing them worse than my generation. My generation had the Cold War as the reason for the high spending. That doesn’t apply any longer and hasn’t for a long long time. No wonder the younger generations are pissed. I dont blame them. No one asked me. I didn’t vote for it. I want it to end. I want younger Americans to have a chance at the American dream and I will try my best to help them even if it is the last thing I do in this life.
Tim gallagher says
All these people that support Muslims and try to harm Israel, the only civilised country in the middle east, are suicidal idiots. The Muslims will go right on hating them and wanting to kill them or impose evil, barbaric Islam on them. Muslims are the enemy of all civilised societies and they should always be treated that way.
tgusa says
The fight is in America Tim, as it has been since 1776. As a traditional American I am not being arrogant when I say that. In this day and age that is what it is. Every other country in the world is a secondary country to differing degrees. And that goes for the two biggest countries in the world, Russia and China. After 250 years one thing you can always say about us is that we are mostly reliable trustworthy. Yes, it might take us awhile but we eventually decide on the right path to take. It is just harder today ( due to federal government imposed division) to accomplish what we could in the past.
tgusa says
The largest countries in the world by land area…
Russia – 16,376,870 km² (6,323,142 mi²), spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia, covering about 11% of the world’s landmass.
Canada – 9,093,507 km² (3,505,100 mi²), known for its vast forests and over two million lakes.
China – 9,388,211 km² (3,621,000 mi²), the largest country in Asia by land area.
United States – 9,147,593 km² (3,531,905 mi²), including Alaska and Hawaii; slightly smaller than China in land area but larger when including territorial waters.
Brazil – 8,515,770 km² (3,287,956 mi²), the largest country in South America.
Australia – 7,692,024 km² (2,969,907 mi²), the only country that is also a continent World.
India – 3,287,263 km² (1,269,346 mi²), the second-largest country in Asia.
Argentina – 2,780,400 km² (1,073,500 mi²), the second-largest country in South America.
Kazakhstan – 2,724,900 km² (1,052,100 mi²), the largest landlocked country in the world.
Algeria – 2,381,741 km² (919,595 mi²), the largest country in Africa.
I have always believed that among them all (due to so many reasons) Australia makes the most perfect country in the world for the USA to be aligned with in today’s world.
Tim gallagher says
You are right, tgusa, about the fight being an internal fight when it comes to the USA, which is definitely the most powerful country in the world. The trouble in all our countries, when it comes to islam, is that so many people seem not to see it as the enemy that it is. I wish people everywhere would wake up the way the Hungarians, poles and Czechs have and treat Islam like the evil crap it is. Australia is huge but the driest continent and has only 27 million people. We will face huge problems in the future with China bullying us and all other countries in our part of the world. China is like a tiger and Australia an ant in military power.
tgusa says
“Australia is huge but the driest continent and has only 27 million people.”
27 million Australians, I will take that. You have reputation of punching above your weight. You need to disengage from the UK and put Australia and Australians first.
You are a dry continent. OK. You are surrounded by water. Build some desalination plants, some pipelines and a network of canals to distribute the water in to the dry areas. It is really not that hard.
tgusa says
That would boost employment of the younger people. I know that when I was young I wanted to go up to Alaska and help build the Alaska pipeline. I thought of it as an adventure. You had to be 18 to do that and they built it so fast I was never able to do that. I was, to put it mildly, disappointed.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s good that Massie lost his primary, but unfortunately, by the time he’s out, the GOP might have lost their majority in the House. Thanks to the split in MAGA b/w the antisemites vs the antijihadists
Hopefully, the Iran regime change can be achieved around October so that at least the GOP can be united and maintain its majority, while losing its antisemitic members
tgusa says
Back in the day, the 1970s, we didn’t have it so easy as some want young people of today to believe. I will state that in today’s world (due to the huge changes) it is easier in some ways but also harder in some ways as well.