LOCKED: Inside Look at an Israeli Arms Expo & How Gaza Attack Was Very Profitable
I had to migrate this thread over because my original, under "General Discussion," was locked out by mod Sissyk.
For the record, I would like to express what an outrageous policy this is -- to purposely segregate what is clearly a topic of great interest into a thread that is unlikely to receive a fraction of the attention as it would on the broader forum.
It cannot be interpreted as anything other than an appalling exercise of active censorship on what is alleged to be an open forum, dedicated to meaningful discussion. US Foreign Military Funding to Israel constitutes up to 25% of its operating budget, or $3.1 billion in FY 2015, representing over half of its total global contributions to all countries.
If an op can rationally explain how such a massive topic has been wiped out of general discussion, by all means, explain it here.
My original post below:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/05/war-israel-booming-business/
The U.S. subsidy is helping to fuel the business of war in Israel. It’s a booming industry due in no small part to the ever-increasing frequency of the country’s battles with militant groups in neighboring Lebanon and Gaza, the coastal strip that Israel holds under a crippling air, land and sea blockade. In 2006, Israel went to war in Lebanon, killing at least 900 civilians. Two years later, Israel invaded Gaza in what a U.N. Human Rights report called “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” Operation Cast Lead, as the 2008 – 2009 attack was called, killed 1,400 people, more than half of them civilians. In 2012, Israel bombed Gaza for about a week before a U.S. and Egyptian-brokered ceasefire went into effect. But the most devastating Israeli attack on the strip occurred last summer, when Israel waged a 50-day battle against Hamas that killed 2,200 people, the majority of them civilians.
