Biden budget proposal excludes UNRWA funds, renews $14 billion request for Israel
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14 billions for Israel, 100 millions for Palestine... That's a 140 ratio. Who's the distressed population Joe?
Bullets are a lot more expensive than bandages most of the time.
(Edit: that is not to say that this is a reasonable allocation of resources in this situation. The appropriate ratio would be zero bullets and a couple dozen new, fully equipped hospitals and several hundred well-stocked kitchens.)
Aw, I have three weapons for Israel and no UN aid. Why can't I have no weapons for Israel and three UN aid?
That's because UNWRA isn't the UN. Really the UN should have sent proper members there instead of making a special case and creating the UNWRA in the first place.
UNRWA is part of the UN, same as UNHCR. It's development and continuation separate to UNHCR has to do with denying Palestinians Right of Return. The most recent false accusations are used by Israel to futher destroy and cripple any aid infrastructure for Gaza. To intentionally force millions to suffer from famine, disease, and dehydration.
https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/28/2-3/229/1584825
https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/features/exploding-myths-unrwa-unhcr-and-palestine-refugees
https://books.google.com/books?id=80j612aFo_4C&q=UNRWA+%22jewish+refugees%22+1952&pg=PA12
That is factually incorrect.
I mean, you're right in that they are a separate legal entity from the UN General Assembly, but they are a subsidiary body of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNRWA
"UNRWA was established in 1949 by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to provide relief to all refugees resulting from the 1948 conflict. It also provided relief to Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the State of Israel following the 1948 conflict until the Israeli government took over responsibility for them in 1952.[7][8][9] As a subsidiary body of the UNGA, UNRWA's mandate is subject to periodic renewal every three years; it has consistently been extended since its founding, most recently until 30 June 2026.[10]"
If he doesn't win election, I want his stans to remember this and understand that he threw it. He, or at least his staff, must know what a historically unpopular policy this is.
The dems clearly aren't as excited about beating Trump as their voters are.
They’ll just blame the voters, like they already do.
The Dems have invested everything into Biden so they can’t change their ship, and the stans can’t admit there is any flaws, so it must be everyone else that is wrong.
I don't know where you guys see it, but I never see any stans for Biden who can't admit his flaws like we see with Trump supporters. The only support I see for Biden is for the general election, not for him or his policies overall. I only see people being critical of Biden but saying we need to vote for him anyway. As bad as it is, there is no Palestine with Trump, there's possibly no democracy with Trump, there's only likely a lot of suffering for the regular people with Trump.
If the dems lose this, and they probably will, they’ll pull out their usual playbook and blame everyone but themselves.
Dems lose, blame voters, move rightward, repeat. At some point they themselves will be fascists and their supporters will urge everyone to vote for the 'softer' fascist. They see no issue in continuing this cycle and pledging their votes with no conditions or red lines, exactly like how Biden funds Israel. Why expect them to do what you want if youve signaled you'll never leave their side?
If only we voted for a party that didn't abuse us like this.
And then will you be happy when Trump doubles the Israel fund and starts arming Russia against Ukraine?
We all fully understand that. Well, most intelligent enough people do. Sure, there are some very vocal leftists calling for a boycott to the vote (as is the custom, so nothing new), but most of us know—even with leftist views—that we need to keep trump away from office. We will all just pull the lever for Biden because we have no other choice. It’s a shitty, unappealing and massively problematic choice. But we all know trump will be 10x worse on everything we have a problem with Biden doing. Not to mention, all the trans people, gay people, etc.
But that doesn’t equate to enthusiastic support for Biden. Because we all disapprove. Doesn’t mean we all don’t realize we have to vote for him. We’re just not democrats or Biden fans, so we complain.
But the other side of that coin is that this kind of shit will stop a not insignificant portion of people from voting for him, not understanding what another trump presidency means. Because there are a lot of performative leftists who think holding up an “well I didn’t vote for him” badge is something to be proud of…while LGBTQIA+ people are pushed back into the shadows, sent to conversion therapy, can’t get healthcare, etc. Doing shit like this will turn those people off. And it’s understandable—in a way. Because how can you justify lending your support to someone supporting genocide? Is it really noble to vote blue while they actively aid in the slaughter of Palestinians? Or while they treat immigrants like shit or keep arming police departments to the teeth with war machines and keep passing pro-surveillance laws and working with private equity and participating in every corporatist neoliberal tradition that sickens us all?
Well, it’s the basic concept of harm reduction. Not voting doesn’t help anyone but the non-voter because they get to hop on that high horse any time something goes wrong. It’s an insanely privileged choice, and actually will end up hurting a lot of people if trump wins. That’s the opposite of harm reduction. For example, making drugs legal and handing out free, clean needles, you’re technically supporting people’s destructive addictions. But you’re reducing the harm that inevitable presence of addiction can bring. It’s a good thing to do.
Even if it makes us sick to vote for Biden, neglecting to keep trump from the levers of power is so insanely self-destructive and harmful to vulnerable people and maybe even literally a mistake we will never, ever right. We have a desperate climate emergency on our hands. Four years (if we can actually get him out of office after that) of trump climate policy will literally kill us all.
I love how I called out that you absolute shitheels love blaming everyone else when the dems trip on their own dicks and hand victory to someone like Trump, and your immediate reaction is to blame me for pointing it out.
Do you understand what's happening here? Are you able to look at your own behaviour? Did you even understand what I said?
Biden is gonna get slaughtered in November. It might even be the final nail in the coffin for American democracy. All because Joe here couldn’t not enthusiastically fund a genocide occurring in plain sight.
All because Joe here couldn’t not enthusiastically fund a genocide occurring in plain sight.
Absolving Republicans of all their nasty anti-democratic behavior is disgusting. Anyone voting for Trump is actively pursuing the downfall of America. Anyone who doesn't vote at all deserves the blame too.
I haven’t seen a single leftist say they’re going to vote for Trump but I’ve seen like 100,000 liberals saying enabling genocide isn’t a big issue and to vote blue no matter who. Maybe stop nagging leftists and start doing the bare fucking minimum to appeal to voters who don’t like actual fucking genocide.
I'd say anyone who supports Trump or Biden is actively pursuing the downfall of America.
They're both just looking out for different rich people.
Eventually backing the Dems will backfire. Look at a few things Biden as done in his term. They are becoming more and more right-wing every election.
Either vote third party or Trump's America becomes real (even if it takes a future Democrat or Republican to do it).
Yeah. It's painfully obvious when the US' ruling class clashes with its servant class.
They just keep pushing and expect us to roll over and take it. Unfortunately, a lot of us are proud to do just that. I don't take those people seriously, anymore.
This is after it turned out that Israel's accusation was a lie, as is usually the case. This man will go down in November and drag the rest of the world with him.
BDS
Too many pro Israel people in Bidens government.
Such as Biden himself.
It's the American government, period. Jewish people contribute millions in lobbies and bribes.
Careful there. Lots of American Jews don't support Israel's actions. Zionists do, whether they're Jewish or not.
Right after the UNRWA accusations turn out to be false.
And israel tortured UNRWA employees into making false confessions.
Fuck Biden.
Biden ignoring his own intelligence agencies for foreign propaganda.
Yay.
I thought that was just a trump thing. But nope.
It's a US politics thing. Everyone that sets foot in the White House has to play ball, they just don't know it until they get there. It would've been interesting to see Bernie react to the reality of things in the highest office, but that's probably exactly why they never let him in.
Bernie is the only US politician that actually fights for the common man. And the only reason I think he's still a politician is because he's got the support of enough people behind him that America's oligarchy can't stop him from at least holding some official positions of power and decision making. But I don't ever see him being president of this nation, and at his age, it's likely too late now.
Bidens new memoir "How to lose votes and alienate muslims" coming to a store near you soon.
Why are we giving $14b to one of the wealthiest nations in existence?
I'm never voting for an establishment democrat again. I don't care what the tribalists think. They don't want to solve these problems, just perpetuate them.
Perhaps it's not a "israeli" war? Perhaps if there would be no Gaza this military machine would burn Syria, Lebanon, what ever? Perhaps this is power and money? Perhaps it's about nothing more?
