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You’ve given a list of countries selling weapons to Israel. If I sell you my car, I am not “funding” you.

What an exercise in utter futility.



You could also read https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts

These are just Google results.


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The Israeli military and security forces budget is more than $55bn a year, and you are saying the US pays all of it. It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered such an outlandish claim.


US finances costliest weapons (fighter jets, precision munitions, air and missile defense systems such as Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, and Iron Beam) which provides the qualitative edge of Israel’s military, while Israel’s own budget covers personnel, operations, and much of the day‑to‑day war cost.

Without US tax dollars, Israeli part of military budget would have to shrink by 50 - 60% to pay for R&D, manufacturing, testing, deploying and maintaining of US provided advanced weapon systems.


To anyone downvoting my sibling comment, go look at the post history [1] this guy indulges in loads of crazy conspiracies and ties them all back to Mossad. It’s pretty clear what the underlying motivation is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FilosofumRex


The guy is an antisemite and a loon who’s obsessed with Mossad.


> The guy is an antisemite and a loon who’s obsessed with Mossad

CIA & Mossad in that order, and of course, MI6 as well, but their budget is small


right, a crazy person




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