Last month RFK Jr and HHS tried to abruptly slash $2bn from substance abuse clinics and mental health counselors which helps hundreds of thousands of us Americans, but the USG easily transferred $14 billion in aid to Israel without a sweat.

Lucky for us this nasty attempt to cut HHS funding to hurt us Americans seems to have failed for now.

Compassion is not selective. Either a human being is compassionate towards his fellow man or he/she is not.

US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pretends to be compassionate towards us suffering Americans, but he demonstrates ZERO compassion for his suffering fellow man in Gaza and the West Bank.

Compassion and mercy are not selective traits in human beings.

**** Israel Unlawfully Spraying Herbicides in Southern Lebanon and Syria ****

"Footage has also emerged of Israeli agricultural planes deploying chemical substances inside southern Syria on at least three occasions last week.

The UN Interim Force in Lebanon said the IDF dropped an "unknown chemical substance" over areas near the Blue Line, delaying the observers' activities for nine hours.

The IDF that it would be "carrying out an aerial activity dropping what they said was a non-toxic chemical substance over areas near the Blue Line."

"The IDF said that peacekeepers should stay away and remain under cover, forcing them to cancel over a dozen activities," the observer force said.

"Peacekeepers could not perform normal operations near the Blue Line along about a third of its length and were only able to resume normal activities after over nine hours," UNFIL said, adding that its observers also supported the Lebanese army in "collecting samples to be tested for toxicity."

"The IDF's deliberate and planned actions not only limited peacekeepers' ability to undertake their mandated activities, but also potentially put their health and that of civilians at risk," UNIFIL added. "It also raised concerns about the effects of this unknown chemical on local agricultural lands, and how this might impact the return of civilians to their homes and livelihoods in the long-term."

More than a year after a ceasefire was struck in November 2024 to end a war between Israel and Hezbollah, border areas in Lebanon remain largely deserted, and Israel continues to carry out regular airstrikes in the south.

In 2024, footage circulating on social media showed Israeli soldiers using a trebuchet to launch incendiaries at Lebanon, in order to spark fires on the other side of the border, as part of attempts to clear the vegetation."

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Reminiscent of the US military using the highly carcinogenic Agent Orange in Vietnam, the IDF is spraying chemicals into Lebanon and Syria. I knew a Vietnam veteran suffering from a host of ailments including cancer caused by exposure to Agent Orange when he loaded them onto USN planes 60 years ago.

And what will the US or the UN do about these environmental crimes perpetrated by Israel despoiling nature?

NOTHING