“Okay if their so smart, let them try to run their own country (and hot wars) without America paying for ALL of it.”
Israel GNP: 520.4 billion PPP dollars (2023)
US Aid to Israel: 3.5 billion dollars (2023)
US’s GNP: 27.53 trillion PPP dollars (2023)
Less than ONE PERCENT, and given that the US is pretty much the only country giving them aid, so Israel takes care of the 99% by making and selling things like pagers and phones, and other stuff.
I realize these are big numbers, but do the math anyway - we can afford it for a REAL ALLY, as opposed to someone who got Trump impeached. Now if you want to talk Ukraine cost - probably $500B or more, when it is all added up (including the replacement of our weapons).
Defunding Israel would be an unmitigated humanitarian disaster - possibly one of the worst we’ve seen - which is mainly why I’m not really for it... now anyway.
And yes, it’s really not astronomical figure, compared to what we piss away. It could be much better spent, but cutting them off would do almost nothing for us financially.
That said, we’re funding a total clusterfk. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to just plop a bunch of Jews from the world over (Brooklyn, Ukraine etc.) into a place where they’ll always be surrounded by their eternal enemies... and be completely dependent on us to sponsor them and all their wars. All their enemies become my daughter’s enemies. For what? Sooner or later the Muzloids will do what the Romans did. In 10 years, 150 years... whenever.
The Zionoid dream is just not sustainable... despite loving all the Juze in my life. Almost all of them anyway.