#notinourname #notwithourtaxdollars Latest #USrael numbers are as astonishing as they are revealing. Two numbers really stand out, though: $103.6 BILLION and 40 VETOES. As human rights lawyer and George Mason University professor Noura Erakat breaks down in the NYTimes: Between 1949 and 2008, the U.S. has provided Israel with $103.6 billion, more than all of the foreign aid it has provided to Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America combined...... The United States has incapacitated the U.N. Security Council by using its veto power to shield Israel from accountability 40 times between 1972 and 2011. The only other situation where the U.S. used its veto power so systematically was to protect colonial and apartheid regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia and Namibia. As someone who thinks about race as a globalized system of capitalist oppression, a critical question is: Why is the U.S. so invested in maintaining & supporting regimes that are deemed racist, colonial actors on the world stage? Read more of this concise article here, which is part of a NYTimes room for debate: nytimes/roomfordebate/2014/08/05/can-the-us-still-be-a-leader-in-the-middle-east/us-should-stop-funding-israel-or-let-others-broker-peace
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 02:30:39 +0000
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