The U.S. has spent more than $7 billion on humanitarian aid and building infrastructure in the Palestinian territories, while sending more than $3 billion a year to Israeli military.
“It causes a bit of cognitive dissonance, I would say,” said Howard Sumka, who served as the USAID mission director for Gaza and the West Bank between 2006 and 2010. “It’s important for us to keep providing humanitarian assistance and development assistance, and when the military comes and wipes it out, we start all over again. But it is a little bit Sisyphean.”
Depleted weapons = need for more weapons
Destroyed projects = need for more projects
You aren’t seeing how this can be profitable for American
capitalistsinvestors.The recent history of Gaza in a nutshell…