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Comment by kennywinker

12 hours ago

> That the US contributes doesn’t take away from the billions Israel did and does invest

Actually it does? It takes about 1/4 away.

> The US also gives similar levels of military aid to Egypt as well. The EU and US give billions to Ukraine.

Yes, the US uses defense aid to further their own agenda internationally, and funnel public dollars into private hands.

> Gaza also receives billions in aid

Food, medical, and infrastructure aid is not the same thing as weapons.

> 88% of their aid trucks in Gaza were looted

Ok? This tells me that both food and food aid are in short supply, if people are willing to take it by force. If myself and my family was starving, i would hyjack food trucks too. Wouldn’t you?

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throw10920  6 hours ago

>> That the US contributes doesn’t take away from the billions Israel did and does invest

> Actually it does? It takes about 1/4 away.

It literally does not. The way that every English speaker uses the word "invests" is exactly the opposite of this. If you're going to speak English, you use words as native speakers use them and you don't make up your own definitions.

  • kennywinker  3 hours ago

    I am a native english speaker.

    Israel “invests” ~30b in military spending.

    Of that, ~7b is not their own money, and the could not accept that money and spend it another way.

    Therefore, israel “invests” about 1/4 less than it would seem.

LorenPechtel  4 hours ago

They want you to think that.

There is no way any group other than Hamas could be operating at that scale. It's Hams taking the aid to use it to control the population. It's not like they were actually starving--Hamas never managed to find a legitimately starving person to point a camera at. Every single person they paraded in front of the cameras had medical issues that were the cause of their problems. Just go look inside a hospice, should we conclude they are starving people?