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• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Long before Israel, Americans been sending weapons to Saudi Arabia the people who took out the twin towers, and nobody seems to care.

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Patriots care. We just don’t have a lot of them in office - most people are for sale.

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    • exanime@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Patriots” who are either too aloof to get involved or just become traitors along the way to power

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    since when is Bin Laden + a couple of goons the whole people of Saudi Arabia ?

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    • AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Typically, when people refer to a country by name in this manner, such as “Saudi Arabia”, they are referring to the government/ruling class of that country, not the people as a whole.

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• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since when is the US funding hamas / hezbollah (i assume that what the right one is) did i miss some conspiracy?

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  • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a bit of a stretch, but Netanyahu used to allow Qatari funds through to Hamas and Qatar is home to the largest USA military base in the middle east. So the USA government spend money in Qatar and Qatar send money to Hamas, so one could argue that some USA tax money ended up with Hamas that way.

    But in the same way all economies and trade are interconnected. It’s not because my garagist gave money to his addict child, who used part of that money to buy drugs, that I’m now suddenly guilty of funding the drug trade. Money goes around.

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  • bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hamas has been siphoning money and materials from the aid provided to Gaza for decades. Palestinians receive tons of aid, mainly from western countries.

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I doubt taking some food and water and tents is enough to finance the building of rockets. That money is more likely to come from the surrounding countries.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Another thing to consider is that the US typically sells weapons to Israel (with some exceptions), meaning that’s mostly not our tax dollars.

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    • JustJack23@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.npr.org/…/house-approves-military-aid-israel

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  • the_wise_wolf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “my gasoline dollars” would have been more accurate.

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  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lots of stolen US aid money

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• goat@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  everything is connected, jon.

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• absentbird@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spending on missile defense is one of the only parts of the military budget I’m alright with. Heck, why not expand it, intercept every missile targeting civilians regardless of who fired it.

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