
By Gillian Crist
Page Editor
“Are you killing for yourself or killing for your savior?”
Genocide and war crimes are far more prevalent in modern times than many think and the U.S. is guilty of funding them. This fits the U.S. government’s track record though.
Hurricane Helene and Milton survivors and communities received $860 million to remove debris to protect themselves from further issues and try to rebuild their homes. Israel has received $3.8 billion a year, until 2028. And what is that money going toward? Mass killing.
There is this idea that every Palestinian and Lebanese is a part of Hamas and Hezbollah and innocent people are dying because of this ideology. This rhetoric is dangerous and gives way to unfair stereotyping of people who are trying to live.
The Israel Defense Force hid explosives inside paging devices sent to Lebanon, many of which ended up in the hands of Hezbollah members. These devices went off in unison, killing at least 32, including two children. That could have been your child.
Fatima Abdullah was nine years old when the IDF killed her. These children are not terrorists, but the U.S. is granting the IDF to use Americans’ tax dollars for inhumane killings when many Americans struggle to pay rent or buy their family groceries.
Internalized Islamophobia and xenophobia are plaguing our politics and fueling a war that has nothing yet everything to do with the U.S.
We’ve long put ourselves in situations that we don’t have the resources for. At least 58,220 American soldiers died in the Vietnam War, a war between North and South Vietnam. The “morality” card the U.S. plays to interject themselves into conflicts between other nations results in the death of innocent civilians, including children. Over 34,000 casualties in Vietnam were believed to be civilians.
Regardless of claims of a separation between church and state, religion is often used as an excuse for war. Why would God, HaShem, Braham, or Allah want us to kill others for their own beliefs? Would God want us to “Finish them!” with rockets and missiles? Why is your God right and my God is wrong?
Until the United States is willing to pressure the IDF into a ceasefire and to stop harming innocent civilians in Lebanon and Palestine, specifically children, more and more unethical casualties will continue to happen.
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