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The German government said on Sunday it was reviewing its hundreds of millions of euros of aid for Palestinians following the biggest attack on Israel in years by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Development Minister Svenja Schulze said the government had always been careful to check that the money was only used for peaceful ends.

"But these attacks on Israel mark a terrible fracture," she said. "We will now review our entire engagement for the Palestinian territories."

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[-] JasSmith@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

All Western governments need to evaluate “aid” to countries like Palestine. Billions are sent each year to countries like Afghanistan, and it’s immediately used to oppress, abuse, and murder women and minorities. We need to stop funding terrorists and pretending to be surprised when they use our funds to terrorise people.

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

And to Israel as well. Cut them all off.

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There was hope people are less easy to abuse when they suffer less, and have some education.

There's also a humanitarian argument to be made. After all, these are humans, not everyone's pawn.

I agree it did not work as well. On the other side, we don't know how much worse it could have been without outside help.

[-] JasSmith@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I hope we've conclusively proven that theory to be false. Throw this on top of the theory that, as nations industrialise, they naturally democratise and become more peaceful. China has categorically proven this false.

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