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).
The promised food aid is insufficient and isn’t getting to the neediest; it’s being controlled by the Israeli and U.S. defense teams, whose goals are to quash the Palestinian people’s dignity and human right to viability (again, for the land).
The dearth of potable water, healthcare/hospitals, and shelter are further weapons along with the dire intentional food shortage.
If you can’t find it in your hearts to sob (much less lose sleep) over what’s happening in Palestine, can you protest the $23 billion spent on this humanitarian travesty stealing from our own children?
Our tax money at work is destroying all children’s viable future for any but the filthiest rich.
Our defense budget is about 50 percent of the discretionary budget right now.
With the “Big Beautiful Bill,” how much will this grow? And how much of this budget will be spent on destroying the capacity for children anywhere, including here, to have a future?
Mary Finneran
Cairo
