Die USA haben Israel seit Beginn der Gaza mindestens 21,7 Milliarden US -Dollar an militärische Hilfe erhalten, heißt es in Bericht

The real welfare queens, and yet the donald would tell you it’s US war vets on food stamps bankrupting the country. Over 1 million US citizens will be disenfranchised of essential supports like Medicaid and social security to pay for this.

Israel are not a poor country, they are not in need of aid. If you were to pick any developed country in the world tomorrow and propose this level of “aid” to be sent from the US even for one year, forget in perpetuity…it would not pass the house floor or senate in ANY government in modern history.

Edit: Judging by the unpopularity of this comment I’m clearly wrong and donald is right it’s scrounging US war vets leeching off the state that are the problem, and poor impoverished Israel is where American taxpayer money should be going. $224 billion since 1946, more than any other country on the planet, straight out of US tax payers pockets. The more they are at war, the more aid the US government gives them. Bloodshed = US$… continuous war in the Middle East is clearly an incentivised outcome by this exchange. Tell me, if war=more military aid, what incentive do they have to create peace?

People have this idea that the US just donates money without any caveats. That’s wrong. The US is the strongest military equipment producer in the world for a reason.

The $21.7 billion isn’t charity, it’s a business deal. Since the war began, Israel has spent approximately $90 billion on defense, most of which goes to purchasing US military equipment.

Here’s the context everyone seems to forget: Back in the 1960s-70s, Israel was producing its own advanced weapons like jets and firearms and starting to compete in the global arms market. The US saw this as direct competition, so they struck a deal. The US provides annual military grants (around $3.8 billion/year normally, plus these war supplements) that must be spent on American weapons. In exchange, Israel limits its own weapons production, doesn’t compete aggressively with US arms exports, and spends the majority of its defense budget on American equipment.

Think of that $21.7 billion as basically a 25% discount coupon on the $90+ billion Israel spends on US weapons. Without the grant, Israel would simply produce more of its own weapons domestically, become a major competitor to US defense companies, and buy far less American equipment. The US ‚aid‘ ensures billions flow to American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon, and keeps a potential competitor dependent on US systems.

If you hate Israel you should actually be in favor of the US grant. It’s viewed as a major obstacle to Israel’s military development within Israel itself

And when Israel buy American weapons, surely non of the politicians have any shares in any of the companies the weapons are produced at, right? Also, surely no American politicians will benefit financially from development projects in Gaza where Palestinians have been displaced from, right? A peace deal struck with a knife at the throat is a perfectly valid deal, right?