Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year agoYour money generally funds the iron dome.
Also this is kind of unrelated but I hate this kind of language because it so misleading:
They’re only called refugee camps because Gaza is not formally a state. They’re modern cities.
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Palestinian_refugee_camps
I’m not exactly a fan of how Israel is eating this war but engaging with truth is important.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, for my own sanity I limit how deep I dive into some of this. I don’t think you need to dive super deep though to say the standard for bombing civilian infrastructure is higher than bombing military installations and what Israel has bombed are civilian sreas.
I get that Hamas is coopting a lot of civic locations like schools and hospitals, but that doesn’t give you carte blanche to raze cities.
We support Israel is more ways than just military assistance, but even there paying for the Iron Dome just frees up money to spend elsewhere. It’s not like the only effect of our money is building this defensive capacity, it’s all the things enabled by Israel having gotten this infrastructure subsidized.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Our “paying for the iron dome” is us paying the cost to US weapons manufacturers to send ammunition and terminals for it, mostly. It’s not quite that fungible a concept.
I strongly support our aid for Israel, but I think we should harness our leverage more to rein in how Israel chooses to prosecute their wars.