Israel funding all ends up back in Congress hands via owning the stock of the companies they buy weapons from. That's why they keep getting it.
Can you cite me the sources? Even if that is true, that's too much of taxpayer's money. Why does it have to be billions? Why the heck US have to look out for Israel's wellbeing for years?
I found a wiki that lists the early 2000's mil spending from israel, it appears to roughly match what we are giving them. in 2010+ barack gave them 3.8b a year, the early 2000's shows anywhere between 700m and just under 3b a year of military spending send to american producers.
That seems kinda reasonable, but i dont know what the breakdown is of the rest of our support, if there is anything on top of the arms funds.
It's our only real foothold in the region. Same reason we sell arms to the Saudis.
Someone in the government foresees a reason we will have to fight a war, a real war not this pussy shit we pulled in Afghanistan, in the region so we need an ally. Israel is the only option.
Can you cite me the sources? Even if that is true, that's too much of taxpayer's money. Why does it have to be billions? Why the heck US have to look out for Israel's wellbeing for years?
I found a wiki that lists the early 2000's mil spending from israel, it appears to roughly match what we are giving them. in 2010+ barack gave them 3.8b a year, the early 2000's shows anywhere between 700m and just under 3b a year of military spending send to american producers.
That seems kinda reasonable, but i dont know what the breakdown is of the rest of our support, if there is anything on top of the arms funds.
It's our only real foothold in the region. Same reason we sell arms to the Saudis.
Someone in the government foresees a reason we will have to fight a war, a real war not this pussy shit we pulled in Afghanistan, in the region so we need an ally. Israel is the only option.
Ok but they didn't help in iraq.
Israel isn't valuable for their military support, they're quite small, we need the land.
Also, their special forces absolutely helped in our many "wars" in the middle east. Just like most of the other NATO nations.
And Israel is a major provider in technology(iron dome being used in American bases for instance)