{"id":70696,"date":"2026-04-02T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/aoc-vows-to-block-future-us-military-aid-to-israel-its-iron-dome-and-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:04:37","slug":"aoc-vows-to-block-future-us-military-aid-to-israel-its-iron-dome-and-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/aoc-vows-to-block-future-us-military-aid-to-israel-its-iron-dome-and-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ocasio-Cortez says Israel can fund its own defense and she will oppose any new US aid amid human rights concerns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/02\/trump-white-house-ballroom-republicans-dhs-funding-deal-tariffs-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AOC\/status\/2039423946504978712\">statement<\/a> on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding \u201cIron Dome and other defensive systems\u201d, and that \u201cconsistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/aoc-blocks-israel-military-aid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocasio-Cortez says Israel can fund its own defense and she will oppose any new US aid amid human rights concerns US politics live \u2013 latest updates Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including &#8230; <a title=\"AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/aoc-vows-to-block-future-us-military-aid-to-israel-its-iron-dome-and-defense\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}