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I was reading about Israel interfering with US elections and spying on the US decades ago.

Why is this news now?

Us gives Israel money, Israel uses that money to buy people in power in the US, those bought people then ensure US taxpayewr money flows to israel to...and so the cycle continues.

Nothing explains the US being subservient to Israel than this.

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The reason it's news today is because intelligence services, which are venerated by american journalism, brought the issue forward.

...but in general, the conflation of Israel with Jewishness, and the conflation of anti-zionism with anti-semitism, has allowed the entrenchment of Israel's interests in broad daylight against our best interests.

US gives Israel weapons not money.

US taxpayers buy the weapons.

We give both. We currently have an MOU to provide Israel with $3.8B a year, including $500 allocated for missile defense, through 2028. This is distinct from direct military aid. In total we have furnished nearly $100B since Israel's founding.

People always mention the direct foreign aid but fail to mention all the other money flows. They receive many times more money each year in private investment and open trade agreements. I believe the figure is close to 90-100 billion USD each year going to Israel from the US. This doesn’t include the free movement of Americans to Israel for tourism, owning a second home, etc.

Is Israel allowed to use the non-military aid to donate to AIPAC, and can AIPAC receive that without being reclassified as foreign agent?

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