By Brian McGlinchey by Stark Realities
When asked about the cost of Israel's support by their government, any Americans will say it is $3.8 billion a year – the amount of yearly military aid to which the United States has committed in the framework of the current 10-year " Memorandum of Understanding" with Israel. However, This answer importantly lowers the real cost the relationship, not only due to the fact that it does not cover the various, immense expenses resulting from it, but even more due to the fact that the top cost of the union cannot be measured in dollars.
Since its inception in 1948, Israel is by far the largest recipient of American abroad aid. Although the war in Ukraine created a short anomaly, Israel mostly is at the top of the list all year, despite the fact that Israel is 1 of the richest countries in the world – in terms of per capita GDP, there are 3 places below the UK and 2 places above Japan. Even if the grossly undervalued amount is taken into account, this is simply a surviving one. $3.8 billion US spending on Israel, America gave the Zionist state $404 on person in taxation year 2023, compared to only $15 au person for Ethiopia, 1 of the poorest countries on Earth and the 3rd largest beneficiary of America this year.
The accumulated achievements of Israel after planet War II were almost twice greater than in the case of Egypt, which ranked second. However, most Americans do not realize that much of the Egyptian haul – $1.4 billion in 2023 – should besides be attributed to Israel, in view of the ongoing US aid commitments resulting from agreements with Camp David of 1978 which negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel. The same can be said about Jordan – the 4th largest The beneficiaries of America in fiscal year 2023 with an amount of $1.7 billion. American aid to the kingdom grew rapidly after they signed their own treaty with Israel in 1994 R., and part of Jordan's assistance aims to address a large population of refugees in the country, consisting not only of Palestinians displaced by the establishment of Israel, but besides of the masses who escaped US-led government change wars conducted on behalf of Israel.
There is besides additional aid for Israelwhich legislature periodically approves as an addition to the commitment resulting from the Memorandum of knowing (MOU). Since the Hamas invasion of Israel on 7 October, these supplements have rapidly exceeded the obligations under the Memorandum of Understanding. Only in the first year of the war in Gaza, legislature and president Biden approved additional $14.1 billion for "extraordinary" military aid to Israel, expanding the full amount for this year to $17.9 billion.
It must besides be taken into account that given that the U.S. government has a constant deficit which presently easy exceeds $1 trillion, any marginal expenditure, including assistance to Israel, is financed by debt which is charged interest, expanding the burden of American taxes and inflation.
In addition to the money given to Israel, The U.S. government spends immense sums on actions to benefit Israel or Israel. For example, only in the first year of the Israeli war in Gaza after 7 October, the increased offensive and defensive operations of the US Navy in the mediate East cost America an estimated $4.86 billion.
The outflows associated with the war in Gaza not only continue, but even accelerate. For example, in early this year, the Pentagon engaged in an intense run against Yemeni Huti. In retaliation for Israel's systematic demolition of Gaza, the Huti targeted Israel and ships that according to the Hutich were linked to Israel. In response, America unleashed "Operation Rough Rider", in which US missiles worth $2 million are frequently utilized against Huti drones worth $10,000, which cost from one au two billion dollars.
President Trump's military attacks on Iranian atomic installations – during the war launched by Israel on the basis of preposterous grounds – cost America another 1 to 2 billion dollars., By early estimates. Even before the attack on a atomic program that, according to the U.S. intelligence community, was not intended to produce weapons, The Pentagon has already spent more money on Israel, helpingdefend the country before Iran responded to Israel's unprovoked aggression. The very period preceding the American attacks active a massive and costly mobilisation of American forces and equipment in the region, as the Pentagon was preparing for many scenarios.
Driven by a powerful Israeli lobby based in the United States, by flattering Israeli legislators and by a rotational cast favoring Israel of Presidents, Cabinet Members and National safety Officers, The United States has consistently pursued a policy in the mediate East which puts top precedence in ensuring the regional supremacy of Israel.
Of the many roads utilized to accomplish this, no was more costly than a change of regime, where the consequence that leads to the breakdown, the chaotic state, seems to be as pleasant to Israel and its American collaborators as the 1 that gives birth to a functioning state with a favorable Israeli government—and where the cost is frequently measured not only in US dollars but besides in American life and limbs.
Of course, the most infamous effort to change the government was to invade Iraq in 2003. "If you remove Saddam, I warrant you it will have a immense affirmative consequence in the region"— provided the current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the U.S. legislature hearing. By doing his part to aid Bush's administration dominated by allied neoconservatives with Israel determined to destruct 1 of Israel's regional opponents, Netanyahu besides said that "There's no doubt"that Hussein was "hellly determined to get the atomic bombs".
The drive to overthrow Assad's Syrian government is another outstanding example government changes on behalf of Israel, as both countries tried to cut off the "Sichite crescent" which, mostly due to Saddam's overthrow, represented a continuous line of Iran's influence extending to the borders of Israel. To the satisfaction of the U.S. and Israeli governments, Syria is now ruled by an al-Qaeda associate who Apparently is willing to waive Syria's long-term claims to the Golan Hills that Israel won in 1967.
In summary, The cost of US military operations in Iraq and Syria, including past and future medical care and care of disabled people for veterans, is $2.9 trillion, According to the Costs of War task project of Brown University. The number of fatalities is even more astonishing: over 580,000 civilians and soldiers killed, with possibly 2 to 4 times as many people dying indirectly from resettlement, illness and another factors. In Iraq over 4,600 U.S. soldiers were killed.and 32,000 were injured, many suffered amputation and burns. In addition to mass suffering, these and another U.S. interventions taken to guarantee the regional supremacy of Israel have sparked large aversion to the United States throughout the region.
These resentiments contribute to another massive burden on Israel's account in its relations with the United States: any thorough cost assessment of these relations must reflect the fact that American support for Israel is main motivation muslim terrorism against AmericansThere is no better example than 9/11.
From Osama bin Laden to the kidnappers, anger over American support for Israel was 1 of Al-Qaeda's main motivations:
In his declaration of war to the United States in 1996, bin Laden referred to First massacre in QanaIn which Israel killed 106 Lebanese civilians who sought refuge in the UN complex. He said Muslim youth "affects [United States] with work for all the killings... by your Zionist brothers in Lebanon; You were openly supplying them with weapons and finance."
Bin Laden He said to attack American skyscrapers, he was inspired to witness Israel's demolition of residential skyscrapers in Lebanon in 1982.
Commission 9/11 stated that "to discourage the United States, Chalida Sheikh Mohammed, was not due to his experiences as a student, but alternatively from his violent opposition to US abroad policy favoring Israel".
The hijacking leader of September 11, Mohammed Atta, signed his will on the day Israel launched an attack on Lebanon in 1996. Friend He said Atta was furious and utilized his will as a means of sacrificing his life to the cause.
A friend of the kidnapper-pilot, Marwan al-Shehhi, asked why neither he nor Atta had always laughed. He answered"How can you laughter erstwhile people die in Palestine?"
Referring to the September 11 kidnapper motives, FBI peculiar Agent James Fitzgerald He said Commission 9/11: "I believe they feel outraged against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem... and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States."
In the September 11 attacks, 2977 people died, losses of around $50 billion And the global war on terrorism began. In addition to utilizing it as a false pretext to invade Iraq on behalf of Israel, 9/11 caused an American invasion of Afghanistan and the resulting 20 years Stupid Mission.which It took the lives of 2459 American soldiers (out of 176 000 people overall) and cost 2.3 trillion dollars.
With horror We must now wonder what price terrorists can pay, motivated by American support for Israel's ongoing bloody madness in the Gaza Strip.that killed over 56,000 people – more than half of them are women and children – and have deliberately made a large part of the territory unfit to live.
Death and demolition are targeted by American weapons, from F-15, F-16 and F-35 to Apache assault helicopters, precision guided ammunition, artillery missiles and rifles. No weapons played a greater function in the shocking number of civilian casualties and catastrophic physical demolition than US-delivered MK-84 bombs of £2,000, which have a deadly radius of up to 1198 feet. Even after the outside observers were amazed by Israel's usage of bombs on densely populated areasThe US government continued to send more bombs to Israel.
As if death and demolition were not adequate to trigger deadly retaliation on an Israeli sponsor, depraved Israeli soldiers utilized social media todocument, how they joyfully storm full flat blocks, They're trashing shops, toys. and individual items and – in an alarmingly common trend – They're wearing underwear displaced Palestinian women. All the time Israeli politicians, experts and citizens openly support cultural cleansing, forced hunger and another war crimes. Last week, many Israeli soldiers confirmed that soldiers routinely usage deadly weapons – including Artillery missiles – as a barbarian form crowd control at food distribution points.
If, 1 day, innocent Americans become victims of terrorists wanting to avenge the horror of 2 million men, women and children in Gaza with weapons provided by the United States,Then look for the perverse dynamics.In which the attack is recalled as a reason to double American support for Israel. Given the effectiveness of this spin, terrorism against the United States is simply a blessing to the State of Israel. Reflecting this dark dynamics immediately after 9/11, Netanyahu seemingly had difficulty stopping his enthusiasm erstwhile talking toNew York Times:
When asked tonight what this attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, erstwhile Prime Minister, replied: "He's very good."Then he edited himself, "Well, not very well, but he will awaken instant sympathy."
This self-propelled phenomenon – in which terrorism motivated by American support for Israel is utilized to advance American support for Israel – is not the only example of distorted reasoning about these relationships. The American approach to the mediate East is steeped in circular, Israel-focused logic. For example, Americans are told that Israel is simply a critical ally due to the fact that it serves as a "bastion" against Iran – and that America needs a bastion against Iran due to the fact that it is an opponent of Israel.
In 1 of respective observations on Israel that led to his dismissal from the post of commander of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff College in Levant and Egypt in June, Army Colonel Nathan McCormack summed up these accounts this way:
"[Israel is] our worst 'soul'.We have virtually nothing of this "partnership" but the hostility of millions of peoplein the mediate East, Africa and Asia.
Step by step, this awareness is spreading in American society as citizens observe Israel's conduct in the Gaza Strip, analyse the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as never before, and become increasingly distrustful of Israeli attempts to drag the United States into another large war launched under false pretenses. This second dimension has a peculiar resonance among countlessU.S. war veterans who concluded a terrible conclusion that their sacrifice and sacrifice of their fallen comrades was yet made in favour of a abroad government– and to the detriment of America's safety.
Early this yearPew Researchstated that most Americans now have a negative view of the State of Israel, and the most blatant changes were observed in the strongest bastion of support for Israel: the Republican Party. By guaranteeing that Israel's position is ready for further deterioration,Bad feelings for Israel among Republicans under 50 rose by 15 percent pointsIn just 3 years, and half of them now have an unfavorable view of the country.
In 2010, Meir Dagan, who headed the Israeli spy agency Mossad, warned during an interrogation at Kneset that "Israel gradually transforms from an asset toward the United States into a burden". 15 years laterIsrael's position as a huge, multidimensional burden for the American people is more visible than ever.
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