Depends whether that 5 year old lives in Gaza
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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Israel, too, though if given the choice i would much rather be a 5 year old in Israel.
"not your problem" is actually my opinion on how the US should treat this problem. if they aren't willing to act diplomatically toward one another, we should pull all funding/whatever benefits we're giving israel. the united states isnt giving money to israel because they care about the people; israel's government stimulates the US economy a fuck-ton. we give them so so much money, and it's all for the "defense" of a military of an immensely corrupt government.
according to 22 U.S.C. 2378d, we can't provide assistance to "any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights."
I would argue that israel's police/military have committed many gross violations of human rights, and Amnesty International would agree. The fact the we continue to support them directly contradicts our own legislation and is telling of the injustice and corruption not only in israel, but in the US as well.
tldr; the US supports israel when we have laws that say otherwise, and we're just in it for the money. we should just entirely pull out from this stupid horseshit but our corrupt fucking government wont let us
"not your problem" is actually my opinion on how the US should treat this problem.
You know Hamas kidnapped and is holding some US citizens?
alright then. now we have reason to act-- that doesn't mean supporting israel, however. we're america, we can deal with them ourselves. or do you want us to get israel to do it for us?
fuck israel's government. fuck hamas. they're both corrupt failures of governments, and israel just happens to have more power. don't pick a side because both are just plain fucking awful. this isn't some R/D bullshit where you support one side or the other.
if the US really cared, they'd go and deal with it themselves. they don't care in the fucking slightest because more conflict is more economic stimulation for the US.
... Yet
Guess what? True for most people at any age. Take comfort in the fact that there is absolutely nothing whatsoever you can do about it.
I mean, we can vote
Who is "we"?