According to a report by Brown University’s Costs of War project, the US has sent $17.9bn in military aid to Israel since 7 October 2023.
This accounts for the largest amount of military funding ever granted to Israel in a single year.
The report analyses US military funding of Israel from 7 October 2023 to 30 September 2024, during which Israel has been carrying out a genocidal rampage first against Gaza, and now against the rest of the occupied territories and neighbouring countries like Lebanon.
Israel’s genocide would not be possible without the bankrolling, supplying and political backing of the US.
While the vast majority of people in the US support an arms embargo on Israel, its political class shows no sign of staunching the flow of military aid to Israel.
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Israel’s recent escalation into Lebanon would not have been possible without the US, which supplied the 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs used to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as well as civilians in Beirut.
“We all must ensure nothing like the horrors of October 7 ever happen again. I will do everything in my power to ensure that the threat Hamas poses is eliminated, that it is never again able to govern Gaza, that it fails in its mission to annihilate Israel, and that the people of Gaza are free from the grip of Hamas,” read a 7 October 2024 statement by Vice-President Kamala Harris. – Peoples Dispatch/Globetrotter News Service
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