US politicians and pro-Israel lobby often hail Israel as our greatest ally. How so? - US provided $264B in direct aid since the inception of Israel. - US provides at least as much indirect aid, through government contracts and purchases from Israel with little to no competition. - US buys arms from Israel that it has no need to buy as it weakens national security and creates dependence on Israel. US either has the equivalent or can develop the equivalent. We may buy occasional arms from our other allies (UK, France, Germany etc) but as a rule of thumb we don't depend on our allies for serious stuff. Don't depend on Leopard or Challenger and have Abrams tanks instead. Don't depend on Rafale jets and have our own fighter jets etc. - Christian Zionists and different evangelical groups provide billions of dollars in donations to Israel. But one can argue that it's their money and they are free to spend however they want. Valid point with one exception. Those are tax-free money (instead of $300M going to Uncle Sam they go to Israel) ... if these money help people it's one thing. If they indirectly aid Israel military activity, dispossession of land from Palestinians that's another thing. - US bought anti-missile systems from Israel for billions of dollars ... only to gift them back to Israel. Why didn't the Ally gift it to us? Such a great ally. But we should gift it back to our great Ally. Israel on the other hand - Has universal healthcare for all. We don't but we fund Israel instead of our own people who need help and medical assistance. And poor Americans (who aren't poor to be qualified as poor) may loose everything they have and own only to pay medical bills. - The same Republican nuts who support Israel no matter what and are eager to give billions in aid, would deny an American coverage based on pre-condition and vehemently fought Obama for removing pre-conditions. - Israel's public debt is just 29% of their GDP, one of the lowest among developed nations. US public debt is 123% of our GDP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt#List_of_countries_by_debt What do we get in return? Nothing, literally nothing. We should be thankful for having our "greatest Ally". We are more in-debt, have more public health issues, more homeless. If anything it should be Israel helping us or the very least giving something in return. Using direct aid alone to spend on the American public would be enough to educate 200k students at good public universities every year or to treat 20-40k patients and kids suffering from cancer for free etc.
Now you will be called anti-Semitic for questioning US greatest ally.
You forgot the fact that Israel made many secret military deals with China/Russia in the past. Lots of US military technology was sold to China though Israel.
If the US does not spend money on world affairs, itâs going to become weak, and then there would be no strong dollar. US needs to spend on military for its greater good. Healthcare funding can come from other sources
I think Canada or Great Britain or maybe South Korea are greatest allies
Curious about some of the references/sources you used. It would be great to have them on hand when arguing with Isreal supporters.
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Well said. AIPAC has poisoned US politics. They pay US politicians millions to fund their election campaigns. In return those politicians pay Israel billions from the tax payers money. There is a clear conflict of interest here. These lobbying groups have to stop!