From Iron Dome to F-15s: US provides 70% of Israel’s war costs

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hktyrfiekl

by yogthos

14 comments

  3. We should probably stop that. It’s not a justified war. We shouldn’t be participating. That whole conflict is wrong and needs to be stopped.

  4. Lotta money in the “crimes against humanity” market

  5. Now that Epstein is dead how long will it take for the blackmail tapes they have on all the old us leaders to become irrelevant? We probably still have a few decades before they all die by that time tax payers will probably be shoveling out a few trillion in weapons expenses.🤷🏻

  7. Harris will stop this and end Bibi’s wars.

    Die hard Israel support is Biden and Trump’s position, but it’s not hers.

  9. I don’t think people understand a couple of important factors about *why* we supply Israel with weapons.

    1. It gives us the chance to test equipment/technology in an active war zone.
    2. Israel is a huge partner when it comes to co-development of some of our most advanced weapon systems.
    3. Palestine/Gaza are proxies for Iran, our geopolitical rival, so even if you don’t agree with the war, the reality is that they are effectively, from a geopolitical perspective, our enemy.
    4. Israel is a pretty large economic ally, a top 30 GDP country where some of the most advanced technology in the world is developed.
    5. If the United States pulled out full support, and went into full economic embargo or some other nonsense to stop the conflict, all that would do is make Israel feel more isolated, and they would act more irrationally. They could for, example, take the vast knowledge of weapon systems, intelligence networks, etc. that they have gained from cooperating with us, cozy up to China or any other major country, and then sell it off to gain their support to replace ours. You think China is going to have any qualms about the Palestinian conflict?
    6. At the end of the day, Palestine/Gaza would never be anything more than a mini-Iran if given statehood, why should the US care if that happens?
    7. The vast majority of them still hate the United States and Israel over Hamas and other terrorist groups which are our enemies and that’s probably never going to change.

    All of this to say, I get that it sucks, I get that its a huge humanitarian issue, but the cold hard reality is that there’s no one that is going to save the Palestinian people because they’ve effectively shafted any chance they’re ever going to get at having an independent state. Best case scenario from my perspective is you work with Saudi Arabia to effectuate some type of protectorate agreement where they are effectively the controlling body in the region for Palestine/Gaza where they control security and are put in charge of rebuilding Gaza/Palestine they get access to the natural gas deposits off the coast. Only other solution would be mass migration with guaranteed citizenship wherever they go.

    I just don’t see any other realistic solution that can happen within the current geopolitical paradigm. I predict Iran is going to be brought low, and soon. They’ve been a thorn in the side of the region for decades now and the US, Israel, Saudi, and all of their allies want them off the board. Once they are gone, Palestine has no friends left. The terrorist organizations that ran them will have no more funding, and any dreams of armed resistance will be effectively destroyed in perpetuity. Their hand is only getting weaker and capitulation to a really shitty deal is going to be the end result by the end of the century unless something truly world altering happens.

  10. This is all Trump’s fault
    =

    There was no conflict in the Middle East until Trump stole the office from Hilary.

    Trump should be in PRISON for LIFE because of this.

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    **Vote Democrat for a CHANGE**

  11. The U.S. gives much more defense money to Germany, South Korea, and Japan. The U.S. spends over $200 billion / year on oversea bases to defend these countries. The amount they spend on Israel is tiny compared to this. This defense spending is the cost of being a world power.

    I got the numbers from csis.org.

  13. Why are we helping a country that has a higher standard of living than USA?

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