“Our normal annual aid package to Israel is about three (3) billion. Seventeen should be enough to buy the place?”
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The difference is that Israel has been attacked and is now at war. Thus the costs are way higher. We are not in a USUAL situation.
Our Israeli allies are fighting our common enemy : America-hating islamists and terrorists - All working together with Iran and their Russian allies.
Putin ‘forming axis of terror’ as he welcomes Hamas and Iran to Moscow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/26/putin-forming-axis-of-terror-welcomes-hamas-iran-moscow/
I was just looking at the U.S. coalition/allies during the gulf war/Desert Strom and noted Israel was not one of them.