Payment of 70% of the cost of Israel’s “atrocity” by America
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency, citing “Calcalist”, the Watson Institute of International Affairs at Brown University in the United States revealed that since the beginning of the Gaza war, the United States has given more than 22 billion dollars in military aid to Israel, and this Aids range from weapons and equipment to sending aircraft carriers.
According to Calcalist, which is a Zionist newspaper and its license is owned by the Yediot Aharonot media group, he quoted from the Watson Institute and wrote that the American army is more than any other place. sends military aid to Israel.
According to this newspaper, from the beginning of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023 (15 Mehr 1402) to September 30 of this year, the US government has provided at least 22.76 billion dollars to Israel has provided military assistance. This statistic is part of the Watson Study Center’s project titled “Costs of War”.
According to this report, most of the aid approved so far is only the first round of aid; On August 13 of this year, the Biden administration unveiled other arms contracts worth $20.3 billion, including the sale of F-15 fighter jets to Israel. This package includes 50 F-15 fighter jets, more than 32,000 rounds of tank ammunition, tactical armor and 50,000 artillery rounds. According to the updated schedule of the delivery date, this package will be delivered to Tel Aviv between 2026 and 2029.
Of this figure, about 17.9 billion dollars directly in the military sector and 4.86 billion dollars in the field of US military operations in war zones, including The action against the Houthis (Yemen’s Ansarullah) has been spent, including the dispatch of an aircraft carrier and batteries of the air defense system in the region.
The purpose of this project is to clarify the extent of American aid in wars with direct intervention of this country and has a critical tone about the lack of transparency around these numbers.
The institute’s recent report titled “US Expenditures for Israeli Military Operations and Other US-Related Operations in the Region, from October 7, 2023 to September 30, 2024”, access It has been described as “difficult” for the general public, journalists, and members of the American Congress to accurately understand the amount of military, equipment, and financial assistance this country’s government provided to the Israeli army during the one-year war. Also, similarly, public awareness about the military spending specific to the US in regional operations, especially around Yemen, is very little.
Also, according to the results of these studies, Israel has received the most military aid from the United States since World War II, and this figure reaches 251.2 billion dollars in 66 years. . Also, the aid provided by US President Joe Biden’s government to Tel Aviv in the last year has been the largest figure in the history of US-Israel relations.
Watson Center studies also highlight another difference between US military aid to Israel and other recipients of Washington’s aid, and that is that Tel Aviv has the right to spend 25% of the aid for the production of its manufactured goods, and according to the compilers of this research, this measure has given special support to Israel’s defense industry and turned it into one of the most self-sufficient recipients from a military point of view. The term “he eats both from the trash and from the manger”!
