As an American myself, I’ve asked several people this question. No one seems to know why either. Is it strategic position in the world? I don’t think they have anything the US can exploit besides that really. Am I missing something? Political arguing aside what exactly is the motivation? Thanks for any explanations.

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    23 hours ago

    Without the US pumping all our tax dollars into it they wouldn’t have the money for universal healthcare, free college and unlimited war and genocide

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      23 hours ago

      Are you sure about that?

      Looks like the US gives Israel about $3B per year.

      https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/

      Versus Israel’s GDP of about $700B

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Israel

      I think the main form of aid is the access to US weapons and technology and that’s largely about subsidizing the US defense industry. I think I read somewhere that US aid to Israel is literally sometimes in the form of vouchers/coupons they have to spend on weapons/defense tech.

      That’s not to say we shouldn’t cut off that aid when it’s used to commit atrocities. Just saying get the facts straight.

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        19 hours ago

        We’ve given them over 30billion in cash and military equipment since January 1st. Trump literally bypassed congress to gift them a new fleet of fighter jets. We shouldn’t be paying them jack shit because they obviously are doing better according than us to you