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Rogue Ex Presidents
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Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
He said the United States decided to punish Palestinians. Not that the U.S. made policy decisions that are going to harm people or keep them on "food aid." "Punish": to subject to or inflict a penalty; to mete out punishment. The idea that our government is spending billions of dollars in order to "punish" starving Palestinians on food aid is irrational.
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That would be irrational. I don't think that even Carter would say that spending billions on food aid would be punishment. Since you only quoted a sentence of what Carter said, I'm not sure what he meant, but you'll see in what I posted that the author has something different in mind as "punishment."
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