How America is funding the illegal settlements and bombing of the indigenous population of Palestine

“There are at least three ways in which [U.S. foreign] aid to Israel is different from that of any other country. First, since 1982, U.S. aid to Israel has been transferred in one lump sum at the beginning of each fiscal year, which immediately begins to collect interest in U.S. banks. Aid that goes to other countries is disbursed throughout the year in quarterly installments.

Second, Israel is not required to account for specific purchases. Most countries receive aid for very specific purposes and must account for how it is spent. Israel is allowed to place US aid into its general fund, effectively eliminating any distinctions between types of aid. Therefore, U.S. tax-payers are helping to fund an illegal occupation, the expansion of colonial-settlement projects, and gross human rights violations against the Palestinian civilian population.

A third difference is the sheer amount of aid the U.S. gives to Israel, unparalleled in the history of U.S. foreign policy. Israel usually receives roughly one third of the entire foreign aid budget, despite the fact that Israel comprises less than .001 of the world’s population and already has one of the world’s higher per capita incomes. In other words, Israel, a country of approximately 6 million people, is currently receiving more U.S. aid than all of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined when you take out Egypt and Colombia.”
— US Aid: The Lifeblood of Occupation (via rs620)

Life in Gaza

Did you know that Gaza (a small strip of land housing at least 200,000 people is surrounded by walls with gun turrets facing inward?

Gaza has polluted water, unfit at times for human consumption because Israel controls the infrastructure and will not fix it.

31% of people in Gaza are unemployed, because each Palestinian must carry an ID which allows them to pass (or not) into Israel for work or school.

44% of households in Gaza are food insecure, meaning they don't know if they will have food from day to day.
Israel often witholds food and medical supplies from entering into Gaza.

Israel often receives provocation from people inside Gaza sending rockets out, but often these rockets are homemade (there are no soldiers, no army in Gaza) and so far this summer, not a single rocket fired from Gaza has killed anyone, one person received minor injuries.

Instead Israel has invaded hundreds of homes, has fired DIME bombs on the civilian population, cutting off limbs (of those who surrvive) and current there are
168 dead and 1,100 injured Palestinians.

US News reports (like CNN and ABC) have used footage of destruction in Gaza and have said that it's Israel.

Israeli settlers (often paid by Israel from the US to settle there, living temporarily there for a few months, but displacing indigenous Palestinans permanently) are allowed to attack, burn, destroy Palestinian homes and businesses with impunity.

A Palestianian is never tried by civilian law, but by military law and can be stopped and searched at any time.

While Israel warns people in Gaza to evacuate, there is no where for them to go to.

The US pays for all of this because it grants Israel (unlike any other nation receiving foreign aid) to get it's money in a lump sum and does not require it to specify where that money will be spent.) Israel which is a rich country (per capita) receives 1/3 of all US foreign aid.

I have no 'side' and no investment except to promote peace for both Israelis and Palestinians, but one side here is getting wiped out, like fish in a barrel. I'm not anti-Semetic, not anti-Jewish, and do not call for the abolition of Israel, but reform. The Palestinans are the indigenous population and deserve to live and thrive and not have themselves (and their culture) destroyed.

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