Oh man that’s awful. I support withdrawing all funding for Hamas and all other organizations who intentionally kill humanitarian aid workers. What do you think?
Anti-Israeli content is continuously promoted here along with anti-Israel commentary while flagging and down-voting of any discussion to the contrary.
Israel can do no right. If it allows food into Gaza Hamas steals it. If it tries to set up a different food distribution scheme and Hamas comes up with various schemes to attack that (including shooting its own people) then that's also a war crime.
There is zero consideration in this discussion to Israel's position. To the hostages. To the realities of war.
That's not to say Israel can't and shouldn't be criticized but this is more of an obsession and a hate fest than any of that. Valid criticism is not cherry picking and piling on, it's a more thorough consideration of the nuanced reality.
US gives a ton of aid to Egypt which is an oppressive dictatorship. Egypt is also involved in the civil war in Sudan which has seen more than 150,000 people killed and more than 522,000 children die from starvation, and about 10 million people displaced. Where is your outcry? Maybe something to do with the media (social and traditional) not pumping images to your device 24/7. No Jews no news.
Israel is not evil and doesn't need your funding. Your ally is not slaughtering children, your ally is defending itself against an enemy hiding behind children that's trying to get as many civilians killed as they can and get the most shocking images and figures, whether fabricated or not, in front of your eyes.
Hamas was also taking your tax dollars. The US funds Palestinians too, where do you think that money funneled into Gaza ended up?
The US also supports dictatorial regimes like Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (and Turkey, semi-dictatorial). US weapons used by Saudis were slaughtering civilians in Yemen. Not to mention what western powers did in the middle east directly (and other places).
I think you're being manipulated. Israel is far from perfect but it's also far from evil. Any other country in its position would be doing more or less the same thing. If its enemies stopped trying to murder its citizens then there would be no more violence. War crimes, if/when they occur are not ok but Israel has the right to defend its citizens and not too many options.
EDIT: I should also add that not everyone here is American. In general the singling out of Israel and the PR machinery to paint Israel as evil is happening across the world. Many countries and people that provide no aid to Israel are attacking it. So clearly the amount of aid provided is not a factor in anti-Israel sentiments and singling it out. You can do this sort of PR when you have a lot of money (Qatar).
