Cheap versus expensive people

"For Americans though, it’s okay, because as scholar and blogger As’ad AbuKhalil argues, the Palestinians are “cheap people” – poor, stateless, sub-human refugees whose deaths by the dozens are meaningless. Thus 1.5 million Gazans suffer and die cruelly in a years-long, illegal blockade because a small number of militants kill a tiny number of Israelis. Expensive people in the West consider this to be just."