[throwforfeds]

While we should absolutely be covering on-going civil wars and genocides across the world -- I personally listen to French news sources in order to understand what's going on across Africa -- the fact is that the US has provided Israel with over $300 billion since it's founding. For Sudan, that number is somewhere around $5 billion. So many of us here in the US are rightfully watching and questioning why our taxes are funding a genocide.

[JumpCrisscross]

> many of us here in the US are rightfully watching and questioning why our taxes are funding a genocide

This is fair. Claiming Palestinians are being ignored is not.

[emsign]

Depends on how you define "ignored". Maybe you mean "heard" while the only thing that counts in this matter is if they are being "helped".

[slt2021]

>Claiming Palestinians are being ignored is not.

False. USA continues to ignore the plight of Palestinians and continues to fund and arm the regime that kills them

[JumpCrisscross]

> USA continues to ignore the plight of Palestinians and continues to fund and arm the regime that kills them

False monolith. To the extent there is a single foreign policy issue dominating the American public consciousness, it’s Gaza.

Palestinian lives are not being ignored. There isn’t universal compassion for them. But the average American has more developed views on this topic than for any comparable conflict around the world.

[lostlogin]

> Palestinian lives are not being ignored.

How do you square this view with the current situation? The US has poured resources and weapons into Israel. Gaza is levelled, tens of thousands of Gaza’s people are dead.

The US might care about Gaza, but it cares a lot more about Israel.

[bigyabai]

> Palestinian lives are not being ignored.

In many US states it is criminalized to support Palestinian statehood past a certain point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

You can argue that American citizens aren't unaware, but the politicians are born and bred to ignore this catastrophe. We have laws to stop them from caring.

[ImJamal]

Laws against boycotting Israel is not related to supporting a Palestinian state. They are two completely different issues.

[pydry]

The last genocide aided and abetted by America was probably the genocide of native americans.

[74B5]

If ignorance was not an issue, how come that money went to israel for all this time?

[JumpCrisscross]

How are these related?

I supported arming Ukraine. That didn’t rely on ignorance of Russia.