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Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators
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this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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You can't give the US credit for giving a little aid when they're giving way more bombs and weapons. I'm not going to give you credit for throwing a bandaid to someone after you're the one giving the shooter a gun and ammunition and stopped people from coming over to help when their shot. The US is causing more net harm in this whole situation. Also, those other countries ARE giving lots of aid. Look up the nationalities of the doctors and relief workers in there. They're from all over the world. The US isn't even donating to the UN relief org anymore because of trumped up accusations by Israel that haven't even been proven, unlike lot of other countries that have resumed payments. You just hear about the US because they're basically helping Israel hold the door shut, and every time they let it loose a little, aid can come in, which sounds like they did something good when it's more like they stopped doing something bad. Hell, they're supporting Israel while it blocks off aid through truck, which would be the one actual efficient way to deliver it (that little pier is doing barely anything and apparently even falling apart btw). One million people are being displaced right now. The President said they'd draw a red line in the sand before that happens, but operations have initiated in Rafah and nothing has happened.
So, if anyone is pretending that reality isn't happening, it's you. And tbh, I get it. It's tough to reconcile good old America, innocent Israel, and grandpa Joe Biden with all the pictures of the dead Palestinian children and the rubble of their cities, put together with the proof of American bombs that are being used. It's easier to not deal with it because our domestic problems are so big and no one here wants Trump to be President. But it's happening, and you've got to face the problem so we can push our leaders to fix it, because it's the US that are the ones causing it by shielding Israel from the rest of the world (except Germany), and we supposedly live in a democracy, where theoretically with enough popular support we should be able to pressure our politicians to change course on this disaster.