Israel, the U.S. and the Money-Making Killing Machine

Israel, the U.S. and the money-making killing machine

Yesterday a donor conference announced pledges from 36 countries to donate money to help rebuild Lebanon’s infrastructure after Israel destroyed much of it. Leading the list was the United States and France.

One country was missing from the list. The one that caused the damage: Israel.

So let me get this straight. U.S. tax dollars gave Israel all the weapons to destroy a weak country’s infrastructure and kill thousands of people. Now our tax dollars will be spent to help clean up their mess. Nice racket for Israel.

Of course all these aid pledges represent a time-honored imperial strategy where the donor countries’ money is earmarked to be spent with those countries’ corporations. So U.S. corporations get to make money making the weapons Israel uses to kill Muslims and, yes, Christians in Lebanon and Palestine and then they get to make money reconstructing the destroyed countries.