Cuts in Aid have everything to do with people dying and i wish i could take you, your family and anyone else that feels the way you do and put you in a country like Sudan, Somalia,, Ethiopia, the slums of Nairobi, the Sweatshops of Dhakka or a thousand and one other places in this world where theres little or no food, dirty drinking water, slum housing if theres housing at all, little or no education for your children inadequate or non existent medical services and little or no sanitation,, to work 10-12 hours a day, backbreaking work for a couple of dollars, and no social security, no unemployment pay, if you cant work through sickness or old age and have no family support then you die, its as simple as that, and without the lifeline of Emergency food distribution, the provision of clean water and medical facilities, the improvement of agricultural techniques that Aid provides then the situation will just continue or get worse. Aid agencies estimate that up to 14 million men, women and children in the poorest countries will die over the coming years due to US Aid cuts, and millions more will die as a result of UK aid cuts, if you support a Government thats implementing those policies then their deaths are in part on your hands, and you, as will us all, will have to account to God for your actions,........ and why do you think there is such mass migration from these countries, racked by poverty, war, violence, Climate change and the consequent droughts and floods which are having such an impact on their ability to grow their own food, like the first immigrants to the US, they seek a better life, and if youre talking of "illegal" immigrants, i wonder what the indigenous inhabitants of America, the Indians, thought of these new arrivals and the impact they'd have on their lives, in Matthew 25 vs 35 Christ talks of the "stranger" and says, "when i was a stranger you took me in", no mention of legality or otherwise, just someone in need, like the hungry, and the sick, and the thirsty ,the imprisoned, all in need, and ALL deserving of our help, whether they be living next door, in the next city, the next country or a thousand miles away, if we can help then we should do, in fact as Christians we have a duty to help,........ and it isnt a "so called Genocide", according to genocide scholars, the UN and many other Organisations including Israeli human Rights Organisations it is a Genocide, how else could you describe bombing schools, bombing hospitals, implementing starvation, demolishing every building in site, destroying places of worship and cultural buildings, Israeli ministers spoke of and incited Genocide against the Palestinians, and its an abomination that Governments in the west continued to trade with and supply weapons to the State of Israel while such atrocities were taking place, and i think that anyone that supported or committed these actions that led to genocide are going to get far more than a "spanking from God", but thats for God to decide, not me,..... yes there is so much hatred , so many different "players" in the situation, so much power politics on display, its hard to see a resolution, but we must try all we can to brings Gods Love, Compassion and Justice to the situation, for without Justice there can be no True Peace.
