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Why? They already receive 2 billion a year from us, are ranked one of the highest in world economies and already have a strong military.
I would say 0 for Israel. They can pay for their own mess. This shit is because of their own actions.
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Help Israel achieve what exactly? Bomb more hospitals?
Edit: sorry guys it looks like a bomb just so happened to hit a hospital just out of sheer luck 🥴 and Israel (who has been bombing Gaza ever since I was born basically) did not bomb Gaza. What really happened was that Bush did 9/11.
https://apple.news/AQDY3rrESTsimmExR1thtpg
It has link to video, which I recommend to watch. It show a rocket breaking over the hospital and then explosion. This is Arab source.
Al Jazeera is disagreeing and stating that it’s Israel. Sorry, Israel has the onus to disprove the claims considering they’ve bombed hospitals in the past.
That's untrue as far as I can see. You linked to a live blog, nowhere on that page currently did it mention the al-ahi hospital story, I scrolled down quite a ways. There was an article in the opinion section by someone unaffiliated with Al Jazeera maybe you're referencing?
From Al Jazeera itself most up to date story on it I can find is this article, where both versions of the stories are stated and Al Jazeera continues to say it cannot independently verify either account.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/18/what-do-we-know-about-the-strike-on-the-hospital-in-gaza
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I’d like $160 billion in rent controls/homebuyer’s subsidies, subsidized childcare, or universal healthcare. Or all of them.
"If you wanted some of that $160 billion, you should have been born rich enough to not need it"
For-profit bombs is a deeply fucked concept. It should never, ever be profitable to kill people, intentionally or accidentally.
But the only immoral thing to a neoliberal is not maximising profits, so they're just throbbing with anticipation for the next quarterly earnings report because the return on killing children is incredible.
How about war? Would you like some war instead?
How about 2 wars? The more the better, isn't it?
Maintaining Israel's nuclear arsenal and state of the art military doesn't come cheap when you're using it on a population that's 50% children and armed with rocks, small arms and the odd shoulder-fired rocket.
...sorry - I neglected to mention the Palestinian airforce... That single paraglider really put the fear of god into those Israelis.
Funding a genocide is fucking inexcusable - doubly so when Israel has been signalling this intent for years, and supporting Hamas to create this exact pretext. With all his union business, Biden might have had a great legacy - this puts any chance of that to rest.
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It was supposed to be 100b for just Ukraine originally. So happy (/s) to see that our involvement in the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian feud is sapping our resources for a morally unambiguous conflict that can actually be resolved.
The issue is that 100B budget was never going to pass because of GOP grifting, but if you include israel in the package it's likelihood of easy acceptance goes up. It's also not like this budget request is the only way ukraine is going to get funded.
We've always been at war with Oceana.
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Yeah, I think there are a few standing hospitals in Gaza. Please send Israel more money and rockets.
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"there's no money for healthcare"
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Defense manufacturing will legitimately resurrect the US economy if they fire back up the various dusty munitions factories all over the States that were shuttered due to defense reallocations the past decade.
We should not be involved at all in Israel on either side of the entire conflict (apart from providing humanitarian aid where we can), just give all $100B to Ukraine.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON — Top congressional lawmakers are beginning to receive details of a new funding package the Biden administration is expected to submit to Congress this week.
NBC News reported Tuesday that the administration plans to submit the roughly $100 billion supplemental funding request to Congress in the coming days.
While the money for munitions is expected to be attached to the Ukraine funding request, these sources said the weapons could be used for various purposes, with the Middle East as a point of discussion.
The timing remains fluid, but a possible reason some details could come Wednesday is that the administration would want to catch senators while they’re still in town, said a lawmaker and an aide.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday, a day after a deadly Gaza hospital blast that has fueled protests across the Middle East, that he was preparing to ask Congress for an “unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense” during his trip to Tel Aviv.
The Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry said 471 people were killed in what it called a “targeted” Israeli bombing of al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza.
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