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This is a false equivalency and either betrays the authors’ bias or missing of the mark: It’s true the aid to Hamas is perfectly fungible and efforts to insist upon restrictions for its use will simply shift funds they might use for humanitarian relief to less desirable spending – but it’s not necessarily true that “Correspondingly, a reduction in U.S. military aid to Israel won’t reduce Israeli access to military resources by the full amount of the cutback.”
If the authors’ are trying to say we’d still give Israel several billion dollars of aid each year (but not military hardware), then the statement is true. But what if we cut back or eliminated aid of any kind to Israel, especially if they continue to wage disproportionate responses to attacks?
Due to Israel’s disproportionate attacks, Gaza is again in complete ruins and aid to fix their water system (80% destroyed), etc., is a true humanitarian disaster. Many more lives will be lost if we/ the EU/ the Arab states don’t inject massive financial aid.
If it weren’t a human tragedy, it could be considered comical that we spent money to give the arms to Israel to wreck havoc on Gaza and then pay to restore Gaza. Sort of like The Marshall Plan, except we had a real interest in destroying Germany in WWII, then a real interest in helping it rebuild to not set the stage for a 3rd war. That plan proved correct given 75 years of 20/20 hindsight.