It's been a bit shadowy and hard to pin down. Some of the funding even bypassed Congress.

The annual funding, aside from the war, and ongoing, is around 3.5 billion, I believe.

Historically, Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Somewhere around $300 billion to date.

All funds should be cut now, no more arms either. Though we know the US won't, other countries might. Canada has, at least the transfer of arms.

There is no Palestinian military. They have no tanks, no airplanes, no navy.

They have no factories, no schools, no hospitals.

This is not a war.

And then it was pockets of armed resistance for several months after that. But now it is simply an extermination, there is no real armed resistance anymore, just the occasional 2 or 3 fighters with some guns that get bombed quickly or the occasional rocket attack that has no chance of landing in Israel and causing much damage.

At least we don't have to guess what the long term plan is anymore, BiBi and Trump have publicly stated their exact plan, to kill or eject 100% of the people that live in Gaza and take their land for their rich real estate developer friends to turn into a resort town. People can talk about cease fires, and I am sure there will be some cease fires, but they will be brief because the end goal is the total annihilation of Gaza and all of its people.

Gaza was lost the day Trump won the election. My fear is that the West Bank is next.

It's why I always put it in quotes.

In a war, the civilian population has a military with army, air force, bases etc to PROTECT it. Gaza had nothing. AK-47s and RPGs vs jets, tanks, 2000 lb bombs and a well-equipped force 10 times larger. With that off-the charts asymettry, it was really guerilla warfare against an insurmountable enemy, with civilians paying the price. It's why the casualty ratio is about 130:1. Most of that 130 are civilians vs 1 IDF soldier. It's slaughter.

Civilian population has no armies. It is the belligerent combatants that have armies. Their relative military strength is irrelevant as long as they engage in combat. Assymetry is irrelevant to it being a war as long as none of them surrender. Casualties, both military and civilian, is irrelevan to it being a war as long as at least one of the belligerents hides and attacks from civilian areas.

Save your quotation marks for when you use terms like "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing".

Tens of thousands of missiles fired into Israel, but this is not a war.

A thousand Israelis killed in an illegal Hamas invasion of Israel, but this is not a war.

Brigades and battalions of Hamas militants taking part in military hostilities on a daily basis, but this is not a war.

Hostages held by armed Hamas militants, but this is not a war.

If there is no Palestinian military, why does Palestinian military refuse to disarm and release the hostages?

Or have a vacation home in a land with poisoned air, soil and water. Not to mention the forever-stigma where a genocide occurred and the natives were expelled. It might be too much shame, even for the shameless.

In any case the clean-up will take decades. There are much better playgrounds in the world.

I think this is about a number of Israel's interests, not that of the rich. Israelis will never forgive Palestinians for Oct 7th and as collective punishment, and for their perceived security, 82% of them want Gazans expelled, per a recent poll. Also, Likud has always had the goal of establishing Israeli sovereignty "from the Jordan to the Mediterranean" - it's in its charter (not as catchy as "from the river to the sea" but the same). This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to put the final nails in the coffin of the two-state solution and I believe the entire "war" was conducted from the start to result in the ethnic cleansing of these unfortunate people.

Make it nice enough or gaudy enough and people will go.

And they don't care if it is contaminated or not before they slap a resort on it.

By that I mean Trump and Netanyahu. Though both are likely to profit off Gaza's unexploited offshore gas fields, a figure of half a TRILLION dollars as I recall. But Gaza itself will be Israel's. Likud is increasingly controlled by the settler movement and those religious nuts want to return to Gaza, it's a holy mission for them. They already have plots selected.

Don't let the "Gaza Riviera" distraction fool you.

These journalists work for the AFP, so they are more "priviledged" than ordinary Gazans without income. Yet what they describe is clearly the result of enduring, severe starvation. Ordinary Gazans have no voice so we can only imagine the greater suffering they and their children endure.

More:
https://archive.is/1lQQA

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2025-07-22/ty-article/utterly-defeated-hungry-exhausted-journalists-struggle-to-document-gaza-war/00000198-3351-d2c6-a99a-3b7104b80000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=6866e9f70a

I think around 200 local journalists have been silenced killed. Yet they persist. But this war of starvation may yet succeed in silencing them in a different way.

This is what starvation looks like. From the same article. For the love of God. No one should deny this is happening.

https://postimg.cc/qzDG184G

Perhaps for the best, it's horrific. But people need to know and as they say a pic is worth a thousand words.

(It's the "direct link", but with ".webp" replaced by ".jpg" )

Yes, awful.

How is this allowed to go on??!!

Their leaders repeatedly told you so. All it takes to know this for a fact is to not shut your ears when they talk.

Rec

It is shameful that the USA gives or sells arms to the killers.

War isn't murder
Good men don't die
Children don't starve and all the women survive
War isn't murder
That's what they say
When you're fighting the Devil
Murder's okay
War isn't murder
They're called casualties
There ain't a veteran
With a good night's sleep

Let's talk about dead people
I mean a dead people
The dead don't feel honor
They don't feel that brave
They don't feel avenged
They're lucky if they got graves

Call your dead mother
Ask her when she died
It's a deathly silence on the other line
The dead don't talk
But their children don't forget
So in 20 short years
You can live to regret that

War isn't murder
There's money at stake
Hell, even Kushner agrees
It's good real estate
War isn't murder
Ask Netanyahu
He's got a psalm for that
He's got a bomb for you
War isn't murder
It's an old desert faith
It's a nation state sanctioned righteous hate

Let's talk about dead people
I mean a dead people
War isn't murder
It's the vengeance of God
If you can't see the bodies
They don't bloat when they rot
And the flies don't swarm
And the children don't cry
If war isn't murder
Good men don't die

So in a short 20 years
Where you vacation the Strip
Try not and think about the dead
And have a nice trip

War isn't murder
Let's all give thanks
I saw it all in a movie
Give it up for Tom Hanks
War isn't murder
They don't ship out the poor
And the bullets they fire
Ain't part of the cure
War isn't murder
Land is a right
But the banks called dibs
It's something you can't fight

Let's talk about dead people
I mean a dead people
The dead don't feel honor
They don't feel that brave
They don't feel avenged
They're lucky if they got graves

Call your dead mother
Ask her when she died
It's a deathly silence on the other line
The dead don't talk
But their children don't forget
So in 20 short years
You can live to regret
That

This is straight reporting! Of comments, statements and facts! It's a NEWS Article.

Or are FACTS just an "opinion" now, as in the MAGA cult?

And there is no such thing as straight news reporting now, if there ever was.
By the way, I detest Netanyahu and his actions, as I detest Hamas and theirs.

Great song. Thanks Aloe Vera.

I agree, great song!

Don't they know this is how it goes?