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Two Republican congressmen have introduced legislation that would provide the same employment and economic protections to Americans serving in the Israeli military as US citizens who get deployed to serve in the US military.

The bill, if passed, would amend US law and extend certain protections to include American citizens who serve in the Israeli military.

Those protections include being safe against foreclosure and the repossession of rental property, and would also reduce the interest rates of any loans taken out before their service. It would also protect those Americans from default judgements in legal cases, and grant them job rights and the employment benefits that US veterans receive.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 133 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Veteran here. Yep. I am pretty alright I guess, but I don't have the time or energy to fight for all the shit I should have gotten. Fuck that. It breaks my shriveled little heart to watch people I served with having to fight tooth and nail to get a new fucking prosthetic because theirs broke and being held together by duct tape, only to have their new one break walking through the damn parking lot on the way out of the VA.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry that happened to you and your friends, that shit isn't right.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Appreciate it. You're right, it's not right. The most fucked up part is the prosthetic is for his leg that he lost IN THE FUCKING WAR.

[–] ynazuma@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

This right here

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 77 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let Israel pay for their own veterans.

[–] facelessbs@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

And? The US didn't ask them to go serve in the IDF. They can deal with the consequences.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Launch these fucking cunts into the sun.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

easy there, we have enough climate problems without the sun going supernova on us.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] zhozers@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

Puerto Rican veterans would like a word...

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

European here.

...Why are there Americans ~~soldiers~~ in the Israeli military?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Wootz@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the reply.

Only makes it weirder really.

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

American here.

No fucking clue. I'm as surprised as you are. Seriously wtf?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Just Americans, not American Soldiers. If we're sheep dipping anywhere right now it's Ukraine.

[–] Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The IEF. You can probably guess what the E stands for

[–] 0nekoneko7@lemmy.world -5 points 4 months ago

JOKE is ON YOU. 🤡

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Childkiller benefits bill. What a fucking stupid fake country this is.

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Overthrow Israel

[–] ynazuma@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

This is how you get those lobby dollars, from a community that spends a lot of lobby dollars

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago

If they're getting the benefits of American soldiers, they should have the obligations of American soldiers too, with the same loyalties

…what..?

Like seriously… what the fuck…?

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought serving in another nation's military was pretty much the one thing you couldn't do as a dual citizen.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I think there's a loophole for conscription.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

so basically not so much hahah sure give it to them. The US doesn't take care of it's veterans anyway

[–] mycathas9lives@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

This won't materialize into anything. Just blah blah blah.