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Your government doesn’t fund Israel, either.
by flyinglizard 8mo ago
Your government doesn’t fund Israel, either.
- direwolf20 8mo agoMost Western governments fund Israel. The US funds it the most.
- flyinglizard 8mo agoWhere’s the data to support your extraordinary claim?
- direwolf20 8mo agoYou could start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_supplying_arms_to_Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_supplying_ar...
- flyinglizard 8mo agoYou’ve given a list of countries selling weapons to Israel. If I sell you my car, I am not “funding” you. What an exercise in utter futility.
- direwolf20 8mo agoYou could also read https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts These are just Google results.
- FilosofumRex 8mo ago[flagged]
- flyinglizard 8mo agoThe Israeli military and security forces budget is more than $55bn a year, and you are saying the US pays all of it. It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered such an outlandish claim.
- ch4s3 8mo agoThe guy is an antisemite and a loon who’s obsessed with Mossad.
- FilosofumRex 8mo ago> The guy is an antisemite and a loon who’s obsessed with Mossad CIA & Mossad in that order, and of course, MI6 as well, but their budget is small
- ch4s3 8mo agoright, a crazy person
- ch4s3 8mo agoTo anyone downvoting my sibling comment, go look at the post history [1] this guy indulges in loads of crazy conspiracies and ties them all back to Mossad. It’s pretty clear what the underlying motivation is. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FilosofumRex https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FilosofumRex
- FilosofumRex 8mo agoUS finances costliest weapons (fighter jets, precision munitions, air and missile defense systems such as Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, and Iron Beam) which provides the qualitative edge of Israel’s military, while Israel’s own budget covers personnel, operations, and much of the day‑to‑day war cost. Without US tax dollars, Israeli part of military budget would have to shrink by 50 - 60% to pay for R&D, manufacturing, testing, deploying and maintaining of US provided advanced weapon systems.
- hearsathought 8mo agoNot only do we fund israel, our leaders have been wasting trillions fighting wars on behalf of israel. The newest target israel want the US to take out is strangely enough - Iran...
- flyinglizard 8mo agoUS does not fund Israel. US has a strategic interest in Israel, just as much as it has in Germany, South Korea, Japan and many other places which host a huge US military presence. Unlike those outposts, the support to Israel is given in American military equipment.