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Letter from Mary Finneran

Gaza Spending Harms U.S. Kids

Recently I received a charity solicitation regarding U.S. children going hungry, a horrible thing.

Looking at the U.S. discretionary budget, one sees that the defense budget takes money out of our children’s mouths. SNAP, school lunches, etc. are being cut.

Our defense budget has spent about $23 billion to date to help Israel destroy Gaza; a bombardment that the world demands stop.

Our tax dollars at work for another country’s diabolical land grab (or is it ours?)

Gaza’s children are dying of starvation and malnutrition (those who have survived the military bombardments).

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