We have given Israel 174 billion dollars since 1948 (not adjusted for inflation I’m not good at that). Of that 124 BILLION was given as a credit to be used in America on American weapons.
We have given Israel 174 billion dollars since 1948 (not adjusted for inflation I’m not good at that).
Of that 124 BILLION was given as a credit to be used in America on American weapons.
That money didn’t leave the country. It became contracts, payroll, and R&D at Lockheed, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and hundreds of smaller suppliers. In effect, a large share of “aid to Israel” is a federal procurement program to fund American weapons production.
Defense spending sustains somewhere between 15,000-30,000 American jobs a year depending on which model you use.
And when the Pentagon then buys the same F-35s, interceptors, or munitions, the per-unit cost is lower because Israel’s orders helped spread the fixed costs and sustain the supply chain. So the aid functions as a subsidy to the US defense industrial base that lowers the price America pays for its own weapons.
So the real aide number is actually closer to like 47 billion dollars on actual money that leaves this county since 1948.
The total number of foreign aide, not adjusted for inflation since 1948 (a strong researched conservative estimate) is 1.6 trillion dollars.
So 3%.
That is why I don’t take the anti-Israel critics seriously when they start talking about our aid to Israel.
They don’t honestly analyze the situation and the reason they don’t honestly analyze the situation because they need it to be the only problem that matters and so it’s much cashier to throw out a number then explain it.
But that’s why I don’t take any of these liars seriously.