W.J. Astore
Can’t the Israelis Pay for their Own Bullets, Bombs, and Missiles?
Apparently the top priority in the U.S. Congress is sending more “aid” to Israel, most of it lethal. It’s more important than health care for Americans, aid for the poor and disadvantaged, or even aid to U.S. schools and cities. Basically, it’s more important than anything.
Why is this? What elevates sending more bullets, bombs, and missiles to Israel above all other matters in the U.S. government? How does this make any sense?
Last time I checked, Israel is a modern country with healthy finances and is capable of buying this “aid” if it really needed to. Why is the U.S. taxpayer footing the bill for more munitions to kill innocent people in Gaza? I don’t want my money going to ethnic cleansing and more death; do you?
Most Americans, roughly two-thirds, support an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Our voices are simply ignored by “our” government, which of course shows us that “our” government truly isn’t ours. The owners and donors, the oligarchs, have their own priorities, and they are not ours.
In a note to accompany an article with Medea Benjamin at Common Dreams, Nicolas Davies notes that:
The US media have failed to inform the public how isolated the US is in its support for the massacre taking place in Gaza. 120 countries voted for an immediate ceasefire in the UN General Assembly, while only 12 small countries voted with the US and Israel to oppose the resolution. US and Israeli leaders are not just out of touch with the rest of the world, but with their own people. Only 29% of Israelis wanted a full-scale invasion of Gaza, while 66% of Americans wanted a ceasefire – and that included 80% of Democrats.
Not only that, but new House Speaker Mike Johnson has decided to connect $14.3 billion in aid to Israel to an identical reduction in the budget of the IRS! He wants to cripple the ability of the IRS to go after tax cheats in America while giving a huge handout to America’s weapons makers in the cause of “defending” Israel.
You know the saying about death and taxes being the most certain things we face in life? Obviously in America selling death trumps collecting taxes.
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We can chew gun & dance at the same time
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“Land of the Free, and Home of the Brave,” eh?…..:
“Worldwide Genocide”? History of U.S. Mass Killings of Civilians: The Monstrous Plan to Kill Palestinians Is Fully Endorsed by Washington [Extract]
AMERICA’S STRATEGY OF KILLING CIVILIANS (1945- )
Since World War II, America’s military strategy has deliberately targeted civilians as well as “civilian objects” including hospitals, schools, churches, residential areas. The evidence is overwhelming.
While this practice is categorized as a crime against humanity, THE UNITED STATES HAS NEVER BEEN THE OBJECT OF PROSECUTION BY THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC).
The history of US-led wars confirms that murdering millions of civilians is an integral part of America’s global war agenda.
DURING AND SINCE WORLD WAR II , THE UNITED STATES HAS KILLED MORE THAN 40 MILLION PEOPLE IN A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES, MOST OF THEM CIVILIANS, EITHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH PROXY BY ITS PUPPET REGIMES:
GERMANY–World War II: (several cities bombed by U.S. including Dresden, Nuremberg, Hamburg, Cologne); Number of people killed: 600,000
JAPAN-World War II: 442,000 civilians killed by U.S. and U.K. fire bombing.
KOREAN WAR 1950-53: Three million civilians killed by U.S. bombing.
VIETNAM WAR (1962-1975): 3.8 million civilians killed by U.S. bombing and invasion.
VIETNAM, CAMBODIA AND LAOS (1962-1975): A total of 4.3 million people killed by U.S. in all three countries.
IRAQ WAR (2003): Three million Iraqis killed by U.S. invasion.
THE U.S.’ SO-CALLED “WAR ON TERRORISM” has killed up to 4.6 million people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Pakistan according to a Brown University report.
PAKISTAN 1971: Up to three million ethnic Bengalis killed by the Pakistan army (a U.S. proxy) in East Pakistan (the country’s biggest province). Due to this East Pakistan separated from Pakistan and became Bangladesh.
THE INVASION OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO BY U.S. PROXIES RWANDA AND UGANDA beginning in 1998 has killed more than 6.9 million civilians. This genocide continues.
THE ABOVE IS A PARTIAL LIST WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE AFGHANISTAN, SUDAN, YEMEN, LIBYA, SYRIA, INDONESIA, ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE AND LATIN AMERICA. ALSO OF RELEVANCE ARE DEATHS RESULTING FROM FAMINES AND MASS POVERTY ENFORCED BY U.S. POLICIES GLOBALLY, ESPECIALLY BY SANCTIONS.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (who assumed this post in 1997) was asked by the CBS interviewer Leslie Stahl in 1996 about the deadly effect of U.S. sanctions on Iraqi children. Stahl: “We have heard that half a million children have died. Is the price worth it?”
Albright replied: “I think it is a very hard choice but the price–we think the price is worth it.” The number of Iraqi children killed by U.S. sanctions up to 1996 was 575,000.
Currently, Washington has imposed sanctions on 39 countries.
Full article at https://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-genocide-history-of-u-s-mass-killings-of-civilians-the-monstrous-plan-to-kill-palestinians-is-fully-endorsed-by-washington/5838338 .
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Atrocious.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself, Mr. Astore.
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