The U.S. has spent more than $7 billion on humanitarian aid and building infrastructure in the Palestinian territories, while sending more than $3 billion a year to Israeli military.
  • ???@lemmy.worldOP
    72·
    11 months ago

    US taxpayer money going to weapons that destroy other US projects funded by taxpayers.

    • Altofaltception@lemmy.world
      52·
      11 months ago

      Depleted weapons = need for more weapons
      Destroyed projects = need for more projects

      You aren’t seeing how this can be profitable for American capitalists investors.

      • ???@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        11 months ago

        “It causes a bit of cognitive dissonance, I would say,” said Howard Sumka, who served as the USAID mission director for Gaza and the West Bank between 2006 and 2010. “It’s important for us to keep providing humanitarian assistance and development assistance, and when the military comes and wipes it out, we start all over again. But it is a little bit Sisyphean.”

        The recent history of Gaza in a nutshell…