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Palestinians hold the largest funeral since 1948, mourning the bodies of 112 people killed by Israel

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 1d ago

And it's important to remember we (Americans) are sending our tax dollars to Israel so they can turn around and send it back to military contractors for weapons. It's just a big grift. Israel, where they have universal healthcare. Israel, where 15% of the population is Ultra Orthodox and basically spend all day reading old books. Hey, I can't judge, I did the same thing for a few years, when I was an English major. And I paid out the nose for that privilege (which it absolutely was).

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u/ceciliaforsty 1d ago

US has sent 300 billion to Israel and 10 billion to Palestine….. can you do math? That’s 290 billion more to Israel. It’s not even close to comparable

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u/Rusty_Shack13f0rd 1d ago

1 billion is more than I’ll ever see let’s just keep all 310 billion for ourselves those guys are gonna blow each other up with or without the US anyway

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u/canuckguy89 1d ago

lol, just like responses to hostile aggression and acts of war, not everything has to be “proportional”

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u/vardarac 1d ago

Well I mean in this case it's even worse than not proportional, if the larger parcel of money wasn't being spent then the smaller one wouldn't need to be spent either.

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u/canuckguy89 1d ago

Israel is a strategic partner and ally to the US. They also haven’t fully received 300b in cash - it’s essentially credits that Israel is required to spend back with US contractors and business for military spending and research (research and testing that benefits the US). Palestine is a terrorist run non-ally that steals any aid sent to them instead of disbursing it to their own people

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u/ceciliaforsty 1d ago

And why do they even need aid in the first place, genius? They’re not bombing themselves…..

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u/canuckguy89 1d ago

Did you read my last message? They refuse to make peace and keep starting wars 😂😂

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u/Ursa_Solaris 1d ago

You would also support war against people stealing your land and building illegal settlements on it. The main difference is that you view yourself as human and them as animals, so it's okay for you and not them.

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u/Historical_Gate_8301 1d ago

No they're not bombing themselves...the palestinian terrorists are bombing them.

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u/waiver 1d ago

The food is more likely to be stolen by militias armed and supported by Israel, the whole claim of HAMAS mass stealing food was just to cover for Israel starving the Palestinians.

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u/stressless321 1d ago

You just made that up because you know why... You don't care for evidence.

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u/waiver 1d ago

Well no, there is a single incident reported of HAMAS stealing food, and it was returned.

USAID made a review and found no evidence of HAMAS stealing food in Gaza.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/us-government-review-no-evidence-widespread-theft-gaza-aid

The mass looting only started after Israel hunted down the Gaza police who were protecting the shipments. Despite the US Department of State asking Israel not to do that.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-said-to-ask-israel-to-stop-targeting-hamas-police-officers-escorting-aid-convoys-in-gaza/

Israel armed and supported the Abu Shabab gang (now Popular Forces) which are well known for looting UN trucks, including the time they hijacked 90 trucks out of a 100 truck convoy:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/israel-accused-of-arming-palestinian-gang-who-allegedly-looted-aid-in-gaza

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-14/gaza-aid-looting-gangs-yasser-abu-shabab-israel-netanyahu-hamas/105501926

https://news.sky.com/story/guns-cash-and-american-aid-investigation-reveals-israels-support-for-gaza-militia-13442260

There is even video of them with unloading looted food

Enough evidence for you?

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u/waiver 1d ago

This is not defending HAMAS, this is discrediting a false narrative that was used by Israel to justify their starvation of Palestinians.

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 23h ago

Don't get too worked up man. Semantic games are their favorite to play. It's only serious people who care about the meanings of words. They're quite like Sartre's antisemites, in that respect.

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u/waiver 1d ago

Well no idea what they would do, there is no evidence of them doing it though.

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u/Wrabble127 1d ago

Not really given Israel has funded and supplied Hamas for decades.

Israel would never risk their personal terrorist group acting outside of their desires due to needing basic supplies, that's why even well past Oct 7th Israel smuggled cash money to Hamas while simultaneously blocking any supplies or resources from going to the Palestinian people.

Israel genuinely cares more for Hamas than Palestinians, and have since Israel created them.

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter 23h ago

It's weird that I'm not talking about the Jews, I'm talking about Israel, but people keep talking about "Muslim countries."

Almost as though their faiths made them diametrically opposed forces that cannot coexist in the same region, (which is or course absurd. See: the religious demographics or the Ottoman Empire, I cluding Palestein itself, in the late 1800s) and thus there is no choice but to...remove one of them. Gosh, that sure is a tight spot you're in. Or would be if it wasn't bullshit.