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Republican bill aims to give Americans in Israeli military same benefits as US soldiers
(www.middleeasteye.net)
…what..?
Like seriously… what the fuck…?
this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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As a US Veteran: Fuck. That.
These are not US Service Members, they did not take an Oath to the US and they do not serve the US interests. Even disregarding the atrocities currently happening by the IDF (who are clearly not understanding what the D in their title is for) none of these members deserve any recognition or compensation from the US govt.
JOKE is ON YOU. 🤡
The IEF. You can probably guess what the E stands for
so basically not so much hahah sure give it to them. The US doesn't take care of it's veterans anyway
This won't materialize into anything. Just blah blah blah.
I thought serving in another nation's military was pretty much the one thing you couldn't do as a dual citizen.
Actually there are tons of exchange and cross training events with militaries from other countries. Pick any member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and look up their awards on Wikipedia. You’ll find that they carry medals and ribbons from all over the world as their careers developed.
Crazy. Having had some experience with US immigration, and knowing the kind of questions they ask, it's wild to me that you could be serving in a foreign military and qualify for US citizenship.
If you are a US citizen and you are in the US military doing their bidding with/in a foreign army it is fine. If you are applying for citizenship that is different, because you should see yourself as a worthless beggar who only might receive the grace of the US to let you in.
I think there's a loophole for conscription.
If they're getting the benefits of American soldiers, they should have the obligations of American soldiers too, with the same loyalties
European here.
...Why are there Americans ~~soldiers~~ in the Israeli military?
They aren't American Soldiers. They're Americans who volunteered to go to Israel and serve. I guess some of them might be veterans of the US military though? Israel requires service of dual citizens if they want to remain citizens so that's a big thing about it too.
Anyways this is just insane. There's no way it makes it past the Senate.
Thanks for the reply.
Only makes it weirder really.
American here.
No fucking clue. I'm as surprised as you are. Seriously wtf?
Just Americans, not American Soldiers. If we're sheep dipping anywhere right now it's Ukraine.
Childkiller benefits bill. What a fucking stupid fake country this is.
This is how you get those lobby dollars, from a community that spends a lot of lobby dollars
Overthrow Israel
Puerto Rican veterans would like a word...
American here: Shit, I'd like to see our own veterans get the care and benefits they're supposed to be entitled to.
Some vets have been getting screwed over for literal decades after being forced to kill, suffer injury, psychological damage, lose good friends, and regularly risk death all supposedly for our country.
This right here
Let Israel pay for their own veterans.
If it is the same bill I saw earlier it is like a national guard benefit of credit freeze and dept freeze. Also you can come back to the same job and same pay you left with.
And? The US didn't ask them to go serve in the IDF. They can deal with the consequences.
Launch these fucking cunts into the sun.
easy there, we have enough climate problems without the sun going supernova on us.
Fortunately our sun isn't big enough to go supernova. It'd just go nova. But also, the iron in a few thousand people's blood probably isn't enough to get down to the center of the sun within the timescale humans are likely to exist on.