Miguel’s last post was correct, in the United States.
Congresswoman AOC did a radio interview with hip-hop program “Ebro in the Morning” with Ebro Darden. He brought up Israel and she opined.
The young Jews who hate Netanyahu are Leftist idiots who either don’t know or don’t truly grok the situation with the Palestinians. They have been brainwashed and their opinions are crap.
The lack of food and water, jobs and money in the Palestinian territories has nothing to do with Israeli oppression, but the fact that the Palestinian government wants it that way.
Yasser Arafat died a multi-millionaire in a chateau in Paris. He stole all his money from the Palestinians. The government takes money from foreign aid and uses it in the Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund, to pay the families of people who die as martyrs to kill Israelis. Palestinian schools teach nothing but the Koran and Jew-hatred.
The leaders keep the people poor and miserable then blame Israel to incite them into becoming terrorists. Hamas hates the Jews and wants to wipe them all out and so raises Palestinian children to want to be warriors against the Jews.
It is ideological antisemitism driving this. This is what makes grown men reak into homes and murder small children in their beds.
When Leftists like AOC or brainwashed young Jews try to reduce this to “the Israelis are oppressing the Palestinians and the Palestinians have no choice but to riot (burn homes, bomb cafes and shopping centers, murder children, etc.)” they are denying the reality of the situation to make the narrative fit their ideological world view.
So when Hamas, or Iran, or ISIS, or some other Islamist group calls for the total extermination of Israel and the Jewish people, these Lefts stand up and say “they don’t really mean that they are just angry.”
No, they really mean that. Whether they get it or not, these Leftists are supporting Islamist desire for Jewish genocide.
Yep, Hamas and the Palestinian National Authority (PA) keep the people poor, despite all the foreign aid coming into the “country” (in quotes because while any objective observer would call them an independent nation-state, Hamas and PA insist they are an “occupied territory” so that Israel cannot officially retaliate against attacks the way they could against a sovereign aggressor – it’s all an international/U.N. P.R. scam).
Numbers are hard to find for comparison (something tells me the powers that be don’t want a comparison done), but it looks like Palestine/Hamas receives between $3 billion and $5 billion per year in foreign aid, and the population of Gaza and the West Bank combined is about 4.8 million people. So foreign aid comes out to between $600 and $1000 per person.
The median per capita annual income in Palestine is about $2200.
To compare, this is the equivalent of making $45k/year in the U.S., and getting foreign aid in the amount of $12k-22k.
What could you do with an extra 25-45% on top of your normal income?
Well… what could you do if your government weren’t taking that aid, along with taxes from your income, and using all that money to attack, fund terrorist activities, and spew ideological hatred against a neighboring nation?
“I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalize and marginalized…once someone doesn’t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot. And it doesn’t have to be that way. I’m not even taking about Palestinians. I’m talking about communities in poverty in the United States; I’m talking about Latin America; I’m talking about all over the world,” to which I would reply by posting a copy of my post on the laws in Florida on self defense in a riot:
https://street-pharmacy.blogspot.com/2016/09/riot-law-review.html
“Anti-semantic genocidal warfare”? The Democrats only care for Jewish people because they vote Democrat predominately. Like with everyone and everything you are just a resource to give them more power. That’s all they care about. When no longer support them getting power or help in getting power it is discarded. And Israelis can’t vote for them and repeatedly tell the rest of the world to go fuck themselves when they are criticized by the globalists. Power is everything to them and the means, message, collateral damage and body count is all acceptable no matter how high or Extreme the methods that got to that body count as long as they keep that power or get more.
I also suspect that a very large portion of the Democrats bordering on majority want the Middle East to kill millions of Israelis. That’s insane hyperbole but who do the Democrats support? Iran and Hamas. Constantly condemning Israel for everything they do to keep them selves from not being killed by their neighbors. If you want to go off the tin foil hat wearing deep end you would almost think the democrats WANT Iran to develop a nuclear weapon hoping they drop it on Israel.
No, Democrats want Iran to develop a nuke to drop on fly-over country.
Naw, given the democrats EXTREMELY visceral hatred of the United States and the Citizens that comprise of it the democrats will use the United States nuclear arsenal on United States citizens. I’d say by 2026 at the latest.
Since Hamas has the money for mortar rounds and missiles I would say they do not need ANY foreign aid or financial support. Cut them off completely.