THAT IS THE COUNTRY which has had the largest amount of foreign and military aid from the United States of any country at least since WWII, before there was an Israeli state. And that's only what we know of because a lot of it would seem to be hidden from the American public. For a now drastically outdated example:
They cited Biden administration “efforts to hide the full amounts of aid and types of systems through bureaucratic maneuvering.”
Funding for the key U.S. ally during a war that has exacted a heavy toll on civilians has divided Americans during the presidential campaign. But support for Israel has long carried weight in U.S. politics, and Biden said Friday that “no administration has helped Israel more than I have.”
If I were doing that calculation I would certainly include the cost of the various wars that the Israeli government have, through their American agents and supporters, gotten George W. Bush and, now Donald Trump to fight as part of their regional strategy. The costs of Israel for the United States, realistically measured, would be in the trillions of dollars by the time the disaster Trump was talked into by Netanyahu (though to be fair the Saudi ruling crime family and others in the region bought it from Trump, as well) and other Israeli governments.
Measured in terms of the terrible cost in lives, Americans and others, the moral culpability for murders of innocent civilians which measure in the hundreds of thousands and likely the millions and, yes, the money, Bret Stephens has probably told the biggest whopper of a lie in the history of the New York Times. And they aren't short of competing examples.
And that doesn't even take into account the economic effects that were certainly known to come by the Israeli fascist leadership and even some in the Trump criminal regime which is already being paid by the distruction of oil fields and other facilities, other infrastructure and the stopping of shipping which was known would be the result of such an attack on Iran.
An "Equal Ally" which, according to the Trump Sec. of State, Marco Rubio, forced the Trump regime to start their war. Though I think the Saudis and other oil oligarchies have probably been more persuasive to Trump through paying him and his family for bringing it on. If Bret wants to laud them for being good allies to the US, I'd only be too happy to go into that, though they are in no way as persuasive in the way the Israel lobby is.
Personally, I can tell you one thing that this and related issues of the last quarter of a century related to this has done to me, it's convinced me that the United States needs to dump Israel.
It's not a viable colonial project, it could never stand on its own, it can't ever support itself without American aid in all of those terms mentioned above after all of that support, after all of that blood and sacrifice. We don't owe that project another day of support.
We also have to admit that Israel has a large number of effective and dangerous propaganda operatives in the United States who are very influential in the media and elsewhere. When the real costs of this Iran war become apparent and undeniable, their role in leading us into yet another of these quagmires has to be honestly, accurately and seriously addressed. No matter how uncomfortable that makes anyone feel and no matter how much those agents lie about the character of that questioning and criticism. And, as mentioned the other day, a very large number of those come in the form of antisemitic "christian" Zionists. They are certainly more of a political danger than even the combined forces of the Israel lobby.
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