Also to be clear, we’re not actually rebuilding it, we’re just putting on a fresh coat of paint. Lives have been irreparably damaged and this pittance isn’t nearly enough to help revitalize the area.
Another way of looking at it is, the US military budget is $825 billion and USAID budget is $50 billion. (Already looking bad, USA…)
0.018% of USAID’s budget went to help Gaza, while 1.05% of the US military budget went to destroy Gaza. Congress doesn’t even give 1% of a shit about helping Gaza.
To be clear, we’re only spending 0.35% of the amount we did to bomb it to rebuild it.
Basically a rounding error, something for the headlines.
Also to be clear, we’re not actually rebuilding it, we’re just putting on a fresh coat of paint. Lives have been irreparably damaged and this pittance isn’t nearly enough to help revitalize the area.
Another way of looking at it is, the US military budget is $825 billion and USAID budget is $50 billion. (Already looking bad, USA…)
0.018% of USAID’s budget went to help Gaza, while 1.05% of the US military budget went to destroy Gaza. Congress doesn’t even give 1% of a shit about helping Gaza.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_defense_bill_summary.pdf
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts