• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      Most of that is probably to prevent the actually powerful neighboring countries from crushing them. You know, like they tried to do several times in the past.

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        1 year ago

        How does having hostile neighbours justify a genocide in the open air concentration camp they’re maintaining?