You can't even revive one killed child with that money.
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Reconstructed for whom?
So let Israel's government pay for it, without raising tax on the non-perpetrators.
Preferably the ultra-orthodox, the wealthiest, government lawmakers, and the settlers should pay. One can choose to not be a religious extremist, a tax evader and wage thief, corrupt, or violent and antisocial. The circumstances create these people; and these people have the power to break that cycle.
Let the others cooperate and abolish Israel, that it may become Canaan; a society for all, be they Palestinian, Israeli, be they Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Druze, or Irreligious. If Israel is to truly overcome its past of the Holocaust, it must treat all with liberation before the law.
The point is the business.
There were some people that made a lot of mony destroying it and will make much more rebuilding it.
Which reconstruction?
It will either become wasteland or part of Israel. The right-wing extremist Nethanjahu wonβt allow a reconstruction.
No it won't, unless someone is willing to spend the money.
Isn't that the USA/Israel/Palestine's problem? Why does the EU count these expenses?
Because of Israel and the USA don't count this expenses yet, I suppose. So the EU took initiative as a independent(maybe not fully) 3d party analyst.
The EU is currently in the whitewashing phase of the genocide, where they pretend that they were always against it the whole time and are now totally comitted to helping to rebuild and creating a palestinian state. Obviously that state will be disarmed and under IDF occupation, but thats the price for freedom amiright? In the end Israel will stage some false flag operation and then the EU will go back to saying "Israel has a right to defend itself" and the genocide continues like before.
EU was/is also selling weapons to Israel, weapons they use for genocide, it wasn't/isn't just the US.
It doesn't answer my question though...
For the same reasons it applies to the US, it applies to the EU as well
I don't see how. US has some interests in the region (their own or just as a "vassal" of Israel) but what it has to do with the EU?
By selling Israel weapons to do Genocide with, what are you talking about. Some EU nations even directly helped the IOF in their genocidal campaign.
Almost all countries who produce weapons sell them to other countries. I still don't see why the EU should bother counting Gaza rebuilding expenses.
The genocide is why, pretty simple
Terrible on cost of human lives and expensive in financial terms. We, as humankind, should rather have create peace there sand everywhere.
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I'll donate my share
Hamas will certainly come up with ways how to spend your money, just as all the previous money and help poured into Gaza.
You can't fill a strainer with water nor can you help civilians in Gaza - when they are controled by armed paramilitaries with no civilians' protection as the priority.
There are plenty of great NGOs doing a wonderful job. Why are you like this?