NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoGermany to give Holocaust survivors $236 payout to help them cope with October 7 attacksedition.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down19
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minus-squareDdCno1@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down6·8 months agoRead this and then reconsider: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/one-third-of-israeli-holocaust-survivors-live-in-poverty-advocates-say
minus-squareDeceptichum@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·8 months agoSounds like Israel should spend less money committing genocide and more money helping victims of it.
minus-squareSplashJackson@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·8 months agoI’m sure one third of everyone lives in poverty
minus-squareDdCno1@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·8 months agoWhat a weird reply. Average poverty rate in Israel is 16.9%: https://www.statista.com/statistics/233910/poverty-rates-in-oecd-countries/ Almost twice as high points towards significant hardships for Holocaust survivors. Global average is 46.9%, by the way (but Israel is relatively rich, so it doesn’t make sense to compare it to most of the world): https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/march-2023-global-poverty-update-world-bank-challenge-estimating-poverty-pandemic
minus-squareSplashJackson@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·8 months agoMaybe they should stop all the genocidin’ if they want to get out of poverty… can’t squeeze money from a stone
Read this and then reconsider:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/one-third-of-israeli-holocaust-survivors-live-in-poverty-advocates-say
Sounds like Israel should spend less money committing genocide and more money helping victims of it.
I’m sure one third of everyone lives in poverty
What a weird reply. Average poverty rate in Israel is 16.9%:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/233910/poverty-rates-in-oecd-countries/
Almost twice as high points towards significant hardships for Holocaust survivors.
Global average is 46.9%, by the way (but Israel is relatively rich, so it doesn’t make sense to compare it to most of the world):
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/march-2023-global-poverty-update-world-bank-challenge-estimating-poverty-pandemic
Maybe they should stop all the genocidin’ if they want to get out of poverty… can’t squeeze money from a stone