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Maybe the US should withhold the 3.8e9 per annum military aid from Israel until they provide source code for a system they funded. You know, quid pro quo.

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Tell that to American Defense companies and they'd go crazy. They benefit most from the arrangement.

US aid must be spent on US companies. It all goes back into the US economy.

Directly from tax payers to the military industrial complex.

It doesn't have to be the military industry, and I know first-hand it's used for other companies as well. For example, buying computers.

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