With Israel, It's Time to Start Discussing the Unmentionable

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With Israel, It’s Time to Start Discussing the Unmentionable

 

By Nicholas Kristof

July 22, 2023  The New York Times

 

"The $3.8 billion in annual assistance to Israel is more than 10 times as much as the U.S. sends to the far more populous nation of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world and one under attack by jihadis. In countries like Niger, that sum could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year, or here in the United States, it could help pay for desperately needed early childhood programs.

 

Aid to Israel is now almost exclusively military assistance that can be used only to buy American weaponry. In reality, it’s not so much aid to Israel as it is a backdoor subsidy to American military contractors." [강조는 내가]