Posted on 10/07/2024 1:03:06 PM PDT by thegagline
The United States has spent a record of at least $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since the war in Gaza began and led to escalating conflict around the Middle East, according to a report for Brown University’s Costs of War project, released on the anniversary of Hamas’ attacks on Israel.
An additional $4.86 billion has gone into stepped-up U.S. military operations in the region since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, researchers said in findings first provided to The Associated Press. That includes the costs of a Navy-led campaign to quell strikes on commercial shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, who are carrying them out in solidarity with the fellow Iranian-backed group Hamas.
The report — completed before Israel opened a second front, this one against Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, in late September — is one of the first tallies of estimated U.S. costs as the Biden administration backs Israel in its conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and seeks to contain hostilities by Iran-allied armed groups in the region.
*** Israel — a protege of the United States since its 1948 founding — is the biggest recipient of U.S. military aid in history, getting $251.2 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1959, the report says.
Even so, the $17.9 billion spent since Oct. 7, 2023, in inflation-adjusted dollars, is by far the most military aid sent to Israel in one year. The U.S. committed to providing billions in military assistance to Israel and Egypt each year when they signed their 1979 U.S.-brokered peace treaty, and an agreement since the Obama administration set the annual amount for Israel at $3.8 billion through 2028.
The U.S. aid since the Gaza war started includes military financing, arms sales, at least $4.4 billion in drawdowns from U.S. stockpiles and hand-me-downs of used equipment.
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Well, Israel is going to have to stockpile because eventually AOC will become the POTUS.
If AOC becomes POTUS, all Americans will become experts at stockpiling.
http://ammoseek.com/
Except waiting for that to happen will be too late to stockpile.
How much did the USA spend on military aid to South Korea, Japan, and Europe, during the same time period?
I didn’t know our government was doing such a good job.
Good.
Double it next year.
How much to Ukraine?
This is a lie:
“completed before Israel opened a second front, this one against Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, in late September”
Hezbollah opened the Northern (Lebanon) Front on October 8th, 2023 in support of hamass by firing thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians (a War Crime) from their bases South of the Litani River where they exist in violation of the agreed U.N. Security Council Reaolution 1701.
The author is an anti-semitic bigot, stupid or ignorant or all of the above.
[U.S. Spends a Record $17.9 Billion on Military Aid to Israel Since Last Oct. 7]
[American tax dollars at work.]
I’m OK with that. And no, I’m not Jewish.
Current US Budget has $6.6 Trillion in spending (that’s $6,600 billion)
So $18 B = 0.3% (less than 1/3 of 1%)
Funny, how those “so concerned about the American taxpayer” never say anything about the OTHER 99.7% - i.e., the vast majority - of the Budget ...
j/s ...
60,000 Israelis have been made internal refugees within Israel because of shelling from hezbollah over the last year. hezbolah started this war front. It is only fitting that Israel refuse to accept the permanent refugee-hood of its citizens because of the rockets hezbollah fires at them daily.
Roast ‘em, IDF, with my money, please!
(Good.
Double it next year.)
That works for me.
👍👍👍
No word from the author on how many billions of aid the palestinians turned into tunnels, rockets, arms, etc.
One sided beotch.
I’m looking forward to those family get togethers on Thanksgiving. Big opportunity. My hope is that we can explain our positions in a loving manner. The election will be 3 weeks in the past and we’ll have the majority behind us-hopefully.
I know you have your beliefs but it’s a lot of money. They did face the worst terror attack in some time.
But I think they need to stop taking the foreign aid.
I’m okay with that. When Israel’s enemies are shouting “Death to America” chants every Friday, I’m figuring they’re doing the fighting Americans won’t do.
10% of Ukraine money for 2 years.
And since the whole world actually rests on Israel and Jerusalem it’s much more significant than you realize. (no offense)
A nation that turns its back on Israel can (in general) watch its kingdom decline.
Great Britain opposed national Israel, BION, since 1948. They were part of the hidden war against Zionism.
Britannia once ruled the waves; the Sun did not set upon their empire. Today....
Weak leadership is expensive.
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