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Originally Posted by CalledOut238
One may say it is semantics of using the word genocide. Here are few statistics you may want to consider. Because of the Christian Zionist lobbyist it is our tax dollars funding this conflict.
94% — Percentage of Palestine inhabited by Palestinians in 1946.
15% — Percentage of Palestine inhabited by Palestinians today.
5 million — Number of Palestinians currently living in foreign refugee camps.
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8,701 — Number of Palestinians killed by Israelis since 2000.
1,138 — Number of Israelis killed by Palestinians since 2000.
8:1 — Ratio of Palestinian-Israeli deaths since 2000.
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1,772 — Number of Palestinian children killed by Israelis since 2000.
93 — Number of Israeli children killed by Palestinians since 2000.
19:1 — Ratio of Palestinian-Israeli child deaths since 2000.
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$3 billion — Average annual US aid to Israel over the past 20 years.
25% — Percentage of the entire annual US foreign aid budget that goes to Israel.
I believe we agree that this type of funding needs to stop.
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And these deaths have resulted from retaliatory strikes by Israel. What is now Jordan was intended to be a Palestinian State. The Arab countries have consistently refused to help these people. This can all end when the Palestinians agree to Statehood, that they have been offered many times, and then acknowledge Israel's right to exist. All in all, none of this is America's problem.
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