Israel has killed 42,000 Palestinians and injured over 100,000 in a year — according to the most conservative counts.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    792·
    2 months ago

    Literal decimation mostly funded by US tax dollars…

    Everything else horrible about the genocide aside, it’s fucked up we give billions a year in “aid” to a country with free higher education and universal healthcare while saying we can’t afford it for ourselves because it would cost billions a year…

    If Israel values that over their own “defense” why do we value Israel’s “defense” more than that for our own citizen’s well being?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      2 months ago

      Because the actual issue for the US has never been the cost of it. It’s that half the country thinks that The Poors™, themselves included, don’t deserve anything other than scorn and disgust.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
        18·
        2 months ago

        Uh, more like a saddening percentage of the country wants Israel to succeed for their rapture fantasies, and an another significant portion is unaware that’s their goal. They don’t care about Israel, really, only that their doomsday prophesies are fulfilled, so Jesus can come back. A few million brown people dying is just the price to be paid for paradise.

    • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
      262·
      2 months ago

      The geopolitical excuse of “stabilizing the middle east” is fucking obliterated now. I swear if “people that matter” (read: not the general public, no one gives a shit about our opinion) don’t start bringing this up I’m going to lose my mind…

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        262·
        2 months ago

        It never made sense.

        We replaced multiple democracies with competing religious extremists.

        Then try to act like the area being destabilized is a coincidence.

        We intentionally destabilized it because that made oil cheaper, the people we gave the power to knew if they didn’t sell cheap oil. We’d just fucking do it again.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        2 months ago

        It’s not about geopolitical stability. It’s about maintaining access to oil. The petrol state above all else. Everybody else in the middle east hates us.

        • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Absolutely, just the so called stability is the excuse they always give as to why we give them our blind and unconditional support with literally everything they do. Now that lie is useless I wonder what the next lie will be.

    • abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us
      1·
      2 months ago

      it’s fucked up we give billions a year in “aid” to a country with free higher education and universal healthcare while saying we can’t afford it for ourselves because it would cost billions a year…

      Reminds me of the GOP criticizing Obama for inaction on Syria as compared to his successor, when they enabled his successor but handicapped Obama.

      we can’t afford it for ourselves because it would cost billions a year…

      Of course the US can afford do to and pay for all of it. It’s just that the GOP is mostly ok with funding one of them and hates the idea of funding the other.

      If Israel values that over their own “defense”

      The answer of course is that Israel likely doesn’t - but US largesse allows them to not worry about paying for both.

      why do we value Israel’s “defense” more than that for our own citizen’s well being?

      The GOP.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    146·
    2 months ago

    Lol one year? Nah fam this genicide has been going for way longer than that. The only difference between pre Oct 7 and post is zionest are more active with their atrocities.