What else is new?
Israel's been on the mooch to keep on the march for more than 66 years now.
Do some research and you will see that Israel got nothing from no one until the late 1970's early 1980's. And that was just reduction in prices for a few products. The USA did not pay any money to Israel until Egypt demanded massive amounts of aid in return for signing a peace deal with Israel.
Even by
conservative estimates...
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $121 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance. Almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance, although in the past Israel also received significant economic assistance. [...]
U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel
Congressional Research Service
Appendix A.
Historical Background
1948-1970
U.S. government assistance to Israel began in 1949 with a $100 million Export-Import Bank Loan. For the next two decades, U.S. aid to Israel was modest and was far less than in later years. Although the United States provided moderate amounts of economic aid (mostly loans), IsraelÂ’s main early patron was France, which provided Israel with advanced military equipment and technology. In 1962, Israel purchased its first advanced weapons system from the United States (Hawk antiaircraft missiles). In 1968, a year after IsraelÂ’s victory in the Six Day War, the Johnson Administration, with strong support from Congress, approved the sale of Phantom aircraft to Israel, establishing the precedent for U.S. support for what later came to be referred to as IsraelÂ’s qualitative military edge over its neighbors. [...]
With total inflation since 1947 at 983.95%, the inflation adjusted dollars would tell a slightly different story than Jeremy Sharp would lead us to believe with phrasing like "moderate amounts of economic aid".
Having said that, my statement that Israel's been on the mooch to keep on the march for more than 66 years wasn't intended to be restricted to direct US foreign aid or even to the United States specifically. All told, Israel's been mooching in many
under-the-table ways off of a number of nations since its inception.
Oh, and this business of pointing out that it's mostly been loans fails to account for how much interest the FED has charged the American People for every dollar our Government has
loaned to Israel over the years. The US government
might recoup some of that interest in the loan repayment process, but somehow the national debt has done nothing but grow in the meantime.
The whole thing is an unconscionable sham.