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AloeVera

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4. I believe the total funding for this "war" may be approaching that figure.

Reply to Duncanpup (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 02:57 AM

Jul 23

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.

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Global outcry grows over Israel's killing of starving civilians in Gaza [View all] AloeVera Jul 23 OP

And the U.S. gives Israel $40 billion a year. Duncanpup Jul 23 #1

I believe the total funding for this "war" may be approaching that figure. AloeVera Jul 23 #4

This is not a war. There is no Palestinian state. LuvLoogie Jul 23 #2

It is not a war in the conventional sense only genocide. Duncanpup Jul 23 #3

It was a war for a month or two Johnny2X2X Jul 23 #15

By no measure is it a "war". AloeVera Jul 23 #5

All it takes for a war to be a war is two or more belligerent parties going at each other. Beastly Boy Jul 23 #18

This is the ultimate whitewashing of Hamas. Beastly Boy Jul 23 #17

It's the removal of impoverished people from expensive beachfront property which rich people want. Irish_Dem Jul 23 #6

Somehow I don't think the rich are lining up to vacation in Gaza. AloeVera Jul 23 #9

I mean people travel to Germany, the US, and China EdmondDantes_ Jul 23 #11

Trump and Kushner have expressed an interest in the property. Irish_Dem Jul 23 #12

That's a ploy, a pretext cooked up between two sociopaths. AloeVera Jul 23 #16

More than 100 aid organisations warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza muriel_volestrangler Jul 23 #7

Local journalists working for foreign press are starving too. AloeVera Jul 23 #21

I'm having trouble posting the pic directly. AloeVera Jul 23 #22

This? (Graphic content warning) muriel_volestrangler Jul 23 #23

Thank you. I'll try to remember that. AloeVera Jul 23 #24

The starvation and killings of children are central to Israeli strategy. David__77 Jul 23 #8

Actually, these are central to Hamas strategy. Beastly Boy Jul 23 #19

Not loud enough malaise Jul 23 #10

Recommended. H2O Man Jul 23 #13

Netanyahu: "If you want them, come take them before we kill them all" dalton99a Jul 23 #14

It is obscene to see some people defending such atrocities and seeing humanitarians as enemies. . Ping Tung Jul 23 #20

War isn't murder. Ask Netanyahu. He's got a psalm for that vanessa_ca Jul 23 #25

Netanyahu and Kushner (scum of the earth) mentioned in the song. Hamas? Nada NoRethugFriends Jul 23 #34

The Guardian is by no means an unbiased source. NoRethugFriends Jul 23 #26

Sarcasm? AloeVera Jul 23 #28

As I said, bot an unbiased source. NoRethugFriends Jul 23 #32

LMAO! vanessa_ca Jul 23 #31

IHYAGR NoRethugFriends Jul 23 #33

Oh. Right. Well, if that's your point of view: muriel_volestrangler Jul 23 #35

"It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead." Yossarian - Catch-22 Ping Tung Jul 23 #27

The song was from Vanessa_ca AloeVera Jul 23 #29

Bravo to her. Biting, sardonic, and sad. Ping Tung Jul 23 #30