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It's better than nothing, but in this day and age $4 million feels like peanuts. Israel is probably spending $4 million a day bombing the shit out of them.
$4 million is enough to make it look like a lot money to the average person but not enough to actually do much at all. Even the most minor of domestic infrastructure projects would easily cost more than this; $4 million in today's economy is nothing, unfortunately.
Israel probably spends this amount per hour. Per minute during an active attack.
Curious and looked it up.
The Bank of Israel reports indirect costs of $600 million per week (mainly due to work absences), while the Ministry of Finance reports daily direct costs of $246 million.
https://www.finance-monthly.com/gaza-war-economic-cost-2025/
The fund will seek to scale up and attract additional donors once operational.
It's not the end of the story, and as you say, it's a a step in the right direction at least. And it's much better than what the US does, or what Russia and China do in their hemispheres.
Didn't they pull funding from UNRWA after Israel did a massive smear campaign against it? UNRWA was literally the lifeline for Gaza.
The best way to encourage a 2 state solution is by sanctioning Israel for the genocide they're perpetrating and the apartheid they're enacting against Palestinians in Israel.
Not to mention that Israel's settlements plan is literally to subvert the chances of a 2 state solutions. So good luck with "educational lessons" to bridge the gap of distrust.
I can almost guarantee this will do literally nothing other than delay and punish Palestinians in their goal towards national liberation
Oh boy, a whole 4 million. Hey didn't Canada dump more than 20 billion into oil and gas last year?
How's about, we stop sending weapons to Israel, so they can stop committing actual genocide? Then the leaders can get the Nuremberg treatment. And then it can be a one state, back to Palestine.
I look forward to see if this goes anywhere and it's not just a PR song-and-dance replacing taking real action to stop the ongoing slaughter. At this point it sounds vapid.
Is this the same Labour Party who banned Palestine Action?
Colour me "press X to doubt".
Leave Labor/Labour, people, for parties who actually share your values. Ffs.
What an absolute farce.
How many decades do we have to burn on this lie of a two-state solution before we admit that it's always been a way for Israel to continue squeezing Palestinians off their lands?
There should be one secular state, free of apartheid.
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