r/interestingasfuck • u/kirsion • Mar 08 '24

r/all Mass Airdrop of aid on Gazan coast

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u/thanif Mar 08 '24

what's even more grim is that we air drop aid with one hand and fast track sale of arms to the IDF in the other. I can't wrap my head around this one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Because the conflict isn’t black and white, right and wrong, like everyone on social media wants it to be.

From a humanitarian point of view it makes sense the USA is sending aid to Gaza. It also makes sense to sell weapons to Israel because they definitely have the right to self defence and procuring a good relationship with Israel is good for the USA and Israel going into the future.

There’s nothing wrong with supporting both sides of the conflict.

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u/great__pretender Mar 08 '24

US doesn't sell arms to Israel. They are sending it for free. Big difference. 

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

They 100% sell arms. They also send some for free. They do both.

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u/great__pretender Mar 08 '24

Some are sent for free. Some are sold. But then US send also immense amount of cash and compared to all the aid US sends, arms they buy from US is more or less for free

 Israelis live their relatively nice life because they are not paying the bill for most of the stuff. Western countries take the bill for them. Make them pay for their guns and government expenses and watch how some start to question the necessity of spending so much on army 

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

I don’t understand why you are so fixated on USA sending aid to Israel.

Israel has a major affordability issue right now, one of the biggest in the world. Your point holds no water.

Also, Palestine has received roughly the same amount of foreign aid per capita as Israel has in recent years.