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Over thirty billion dollars per year in aid with no strings attached. They owe us, it's the least they can do!

I can see how without detailed information you could frame it like that. But in reality, US gets world-class military research and development and intelligence from the region, and in return dumps shiny military hardware that mostly just collects dust in hangars, just so american military industrial complex doesn't have to cut jobs in some congressional districts.

I mean, it's nice that we have F-35s now, but with the support we give to US in the region, I don't think we actually get a fair deal out of this relationship.

3 per year, not 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations

Israel defends itself, though, unlike Japan, S. Korea, or Germany. The tens of thousands of troops in those countries are not counted as foreign aid. But having them there, their guns and equipment, food,etc, is a lot more than direct aid to Israel.

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