Anonymous #1 14w

that’s not even true

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Anonymous #2 14w

fuck their aid

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Anonymous OP 14w

99% is military aid

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Anonymous #2 14w

Wrong

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Anonymous #2 14w

The ECONOMIC aid? Yes. But consider - if a government is spending American military money to fund its own - it doesn’t have to fund it itself. Leaving funds open for stuff like… I don’t know… universal healthcare.

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Anonymous #4 14w

And if suddenly - oh so suddenly - Israel had to foot its OWN military bill - healthcare would be first on the chopping block

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I assumed we were discussing the more recent numbers, like the past 5 years

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Anonymous #2 14w

Fair point - got a source for those more recent numbers?

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That’s correct but that’s notably more nuanced. We aren’t funding it directly.

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Anonymous #4 14w

The paragraph below that chart literally proves I’m right, unless you want to discuss numbers that are almost 20 years old for some reason

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I agree, but this aid can’t really be converted to cash. Most of it is basically a Lockheed Martin gift card

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That’s fair. The government pays directly for about 40% of total health expenditures, so they budget about 60B NIS per year (the rest is from a health tax or private financing). With current exchange rates that’s about $20B. We have a 10 year memorandum of understanding to send them $3.8B per year through 2028. Since Oct 7 we’ve sent supplemental aid on top of that, so the 2024 total was $12.5B and 2025 was $7.8B

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Anonymous #6 14w

currently israel is asking the US to scale down military aid and the US is saying no

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