How can we watch people starved and oppressed to the point of desperation for decades, then turn our backs because they’re… acting out of desperation? People need basic security before they can make long term decisions, so punishing them for not having security is barbaric.

The naivety of this statement is that there is a shortage of aid dollars around the world. A dollar spent in the Gaza Strip supporting organized rape, and Jew killing is a dollar not spent in Costa Rico, Guatemala or Haiti building Jungle proof infrastructure that will be used by the locals to peacefully trade and coexist with its neighbors. Every dollar the UNWRA gives to the Strip is a dollar not going to people in poverty who won’t embezzle it for warfare.

There’s actual, peaceful people living in poverty who would use these aid dollars for the betterment of themselves, their families, their communities and their nation. People living in open multi-party democracies. People who don’t believe that a child molestor for 15 hundred years ago entitles them to kill their neighbors. It’s barbaric choosing to continually find the second group over the first.