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Israel/Palestine

Beastly Boy

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2. Does the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights identify

Reply to AloeVera (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 10:59 AM

Oct 2023

the source of drug money?

No? Then it does not address the concern I raised. The report you are referring to does not show how much Hamas is spending on its military projects vs civilian projects. What I am implying is that Hamas spends enormous sums on frivolous things that do not benefit Gazan civilians one bit at the expense of projects that would benefit them.

And, even though you wouldn't find these statistics in the UN report, that's no red herring.

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This is the drug Hamas terrorists took to help them slaughter Israelis [View all] Beastly Boy Oct 2023 OP

Red Herrings are not helpful AloeVera Oct 2023 #1

Does the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights identify Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #2

Hamas does not control foreign aid money for infrastructure projects. AloeVera Oct 2023 #3

To be clear AloeVera Oct 2023 #4

The money they spend on weapons IS controlled by hamas, wherever it comes from. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #5

It's all the same AloeVera Oct 2023 #6

Whose people and whose land is hamas defending? And to what effect? Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #7

Whoa AloeVera Oct 2023 #8

Your curiosity satisfied (mostly): Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #9

Interesting. So how many doses of that drug are they estimated to have bought in total? RockRaven Oct 2023 #10

Are you suggesting that the legitimacy of this expense Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #11

YOU are the one who said "money for drugs, not for water treatment" so I'm asking you RockRaven Oct 2023 #12

I did indeeed. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #13

Whatever inference or subtext you imagine my words to mean is out of my control. RockRaven Oct 2023 #14

Hamas has a $300,000,000 annual budget Mosby Oct 2023 #15

Both the drugs and the water trerment plants require money to procure. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #16

The water treatment plants that Gaza needs are priced in the hundreds of millions RockRaven Oct 2023 #17

Once again, the monetary value of any transaction you mentioned is immaterial to my post. Beastly Boy Oct 2023 #18