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Policy Protestor Against Spending Our Way to War Debt for Gaza
The Piles of Rubble That Used to be Cities Are Actually Profits Back Home
The American people are finally realizing the people — actual humans — die in wars. The Gaza-Israel war the broke out has created divisions in America, splitting people in fractions of support. Reflecting that frustration, a Biden State Department official resigned.
Good for him, I guess. I’m always supportive of protest. He spent 11 years, working it seems for three administrations, transferring arms to foreign governments in a big machine of the weapon sales. I have to add though, wasn’t helping to sell weapons that a few elite monopolistic massive US corporate weapons makers profit from for 11 years enough for him to object to US “policy”?
Mr. Josh Paul declared “he could not support further U.S. military assistance to Israel and calling the administration’s response “an impulsive reaction” based on “intellectual bankruptcy.””
““Let’s absolutely note the horror of what Hamas did, and the scale of it. And therefore, I fear the scale of the potential Israeli response or ongoing Israeli response,” Paul said in an interview. “I recognize the Israeli government’s right to respond and to defend themselves. I guess I question how many Palestinian children have to die in that process.”” I don’t…