Seventeen billion? billion? BILLION? Our normal annual aid package to Israel is about three (3) billion. Seventeen should be enough to buy the place? That’s enough to buy seventeen thousand, one-million dollar missiles. What the heck are they shooting at?
“Our normal annual aid package to Israel is about three (3) billion. Seventeen should be enough to buy the place?”
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The difference is that Israel has been attacked and is now at war. Thus the costs are way higher. We are not in a USUAL situation.
Our Israeli allies are fighting our common enemy : America-hating islamists and terrorists - All working together with Iran and their Russian allies.
Putin ‘forming axis of terror’ as he welcomes Hamas and Iran to Moscow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/26/putin-forming-axis-of-terror-welcomes-hamas-iran-moscow/
Something like 120,000 Hezbollah missiles, soon, most likely. :-(
Note that from Oct. 7 - late December, 2023, Hamas fired over 12,000 missiles into Israel. Most were intercepted. How much is the cost of an Israeli interceptor?