MIDDLE EAST EYE – Across the US, states are struggling to meet vital national needs, from infrastructure investment to schooling, food security to healthcare and housing (…) Yet the state gives $35m annually in weapons to Israel – taxpayer dollars that could be allocated to create 68,400 infrastructure jobs (…)
The funds allocated to Israel in weaponry and the budgetary trade-offs can be found through a new resource unveiled recently by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a Washington, DC-based coalition of Palestine advocacy and solidarity groups.CONTINUE READING