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[Look at what Massie has said about every Congressman Senator having an AIPAC handler.

I know who I support in the Middle East, and it isn’t Islam. That said, the level of lobbying on this is insane.]

Massie is a Nazi-level Jew-hater. Israel is a friendly country, and an occasionally balky ally, but no more so than other countries towards which we have contributed much more, like the UK and France. 2024 featured $15b in campaign money. AIPAC’s $100m is 0.6% - enough to not be completely ignored, but no more than that. His problem is not AIPAC but that Jews contribute 2/3 of Democrat cash and almost 1/2 of GOP money.

But it’s all noise. No amount of money can win primary voters over. They like what countries they like. And when *Democrat* voters discovered Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush were Adolf Hitler in blackface, they ejected them.

Israel is a friendly country, and an occasionally balky ally, but no more so than other countries towards which we have contributed much more

https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military assistance.

At the fourth paragraph there is a chart. From 1946-2024, we gave Israel $308 billion in economic and military aid. No other country is close.

The United States provided Israel considerable economic assistance from 1971 to 2007, but nearly all U.S. aid today goes to support Israel’s military, the most advanced in the region. The United States has provisionally agreed via a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide Israel with $3.8 billion per year through 2028.

Then there's QME (Qualitative Military Edge)

QME has been a conceptual backbone of U.S. military aid to Israel for decades, and it was formally enshrined in U.S. law in 2008..

Under the 2008 law, the United States must ensure that any weapons it provides to other countries in the Middle East do not compromise Israel’s QME.