America’s Blood Dollars: From Genocide in Gaza to Assassination in Tehran
The English section of webangah News Agency, citing Mehr News Agency and Al Jazeera, reports that new documents published by Brown University’s “Costs of War Project” indicate Israel’s inability to continue its conflicts in the Middle East without substantial U.S. financial backing of over $21 billion since October 2023.
These reports reveal that without U.S. military and financial aid, Israel could not have sustained the genocide in Gaza, initiated war with Iran, or repeatedly bombed Yemen.
Analysts confirm these findings, stating that Israel’s wars in Gaza and throughout the region woudl not have continued without U.S. financial and diplomatic support.
Omar Rahman, a global affairs researcher at the Middle East Council, told Al Jazeera: “Comprehensive U.S. backing at all levels is essential for advancing Israel’s war in Gaza and across the region.”
Since October 2023 alone, Israel has killed at least 67,160 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 169,000 others. Thousands remain buried under rubble across Gaza while Israeli strikes have also killed dozens in Yemen and over a thousand people during an attack on Iran in June.
Following Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7, 2023, Israel decided to destroy Gaza and launch a broader war against what it calls hostile groups across the region. It intensified attacks against the occupied West Bank; killed over four thousand people in Lebanon; razed numerous villages; invaded Lebanese and Syrian lands; bombed Iran’s embassy in Damascus; initiated a twelve-day conflict with Tehran; all while maintaining assaults on Yemen as well.
Researchers have concluded that Israel couldn’t have maintained these wars without continuous American support.
A report by William Hartung, senior researcher at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft-co-published by both the Costs of War Project and Quincy-states: “Given current and projected expenditures it is clear that without American funding, weaponry supply-and political backing-the Israeli military could neither inflict such destruction on Gaza nor expand its military operations throughout the region.”
Hartung’s findings show that as October 7, 2023 alone “the United States has spent between $31.35 billion to $33.77 billion providing military aid to Israel along with supporting U.S. military operations within this theater.”
The reports detail how American support enabled Israel to sustain multi-front wars over two years.Rahman added: ”Israel relies heavily on U.S.-supplied weapons for its actions-it uses large quantities of ammunition daily across Gaza and elsewhere. Although some weapons technology is domestically produced here or there-Israel does not manufacture bombs itself-thus it couldn’t launch these munitions independently.”
Bipartisan Support
The United states has long stood as Israel’s most steadfast ally-Tel Aviv remains America’s largest annual foreign aid recipient (approximately $3.3 billion per year) with cumulative assistance exceeding $150 billion through 2022.
This bipartisan backing endures unchanged despite different administrations governing Washington over decades.The Hartung report specifically notes commitments made under former President Donald Trump as well as current president Joe Biden through arms sale agreements-including ongoing services-that pledge tens of billions more dollars toward israel’s defense capabilities into coming years.
Rahman emphasized: “This bipartisan support allows repeated violations of international law enabling one state-with Western protection-to exist unquestioned politically or publicly accountable under mainstream media scrutiny.”
However according to Al Jazeera reporting many americans are shifting away from mainstream positions concerning Israel.in recent months researchers describing Israeli actions in Gaza as genocide influenced public opinion substantially declining toward Tel Aviv.This shift extends even among American Jews-a recent Washington Post poll found four out of ten Jewish Americans believe genocide is occurring there while more than sixty percent say war crimes took place during fighting inside Gaza.”
