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Sorry, Israel-haters — US aid pays off big for America and the numbers don’t lie
Tucker Carlson and his ilk complain endlessly about US foreign aid for Israel — but they couldn’t be more wrong.
We get back more than we spend most of it is sent back to America to buy military weapons. They immprove our weapons and share those improvements with us for free.
It deserves a real answer.
Here’s the truth: It’s the best investment the US government makes.
Most of that $3.8 billion must be spent on American-made military equipment.
That’s not charity — it’s a subsidy for our own defense industrial base.
Israel’s largest purchases flow to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and General Dynamics.
The F-35 program alone — which Israel was the first to use in combat — supports 290,000 American jobs, generates $72 billion in annual economic output and has produced a $173 billion order backlog.
Israel’s real-world combat testing fixed critical glitches engineers couldn’t replicate in a lab, contributing to over $40 billion in export sales.
Then there’s the value of Israel’s intelligence assistance.
The intel Israel provides would cost America “five CIAs” to produce independently, US Air Force Gen. George Keegan estimated decades ago — and that has only compounded since.
The National Intelligence Program budget was $82 billion for fiscal year 2026; even attributing a fifth of that to CIA-equivalent operations, you’re looking at a return that dwarfs a $3.8 billion investment many times over.
Israel also shares daily operational lessons from every American weapons system it fields, saving an estimated 10 to 20 years and potentially billions in research and development.
A single Gerald R. Ford-class carrier costs $13 billion to build and up to $8 million per day to operate — and experts have assessed that Israel’s military effectively replaces multiple US aircraft carriers and ground divisions across the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
That’s without a single permanent US soldier stationed there, while in Europe we spend $25 billion to $30 billion a year to station 80,000 troops.
Israel’s June 2025 air offensive against Iran — featuring 200 US-made F-35s, F-16s and F-15s — was the most consequential live demonstration of American air superiority in a generation.
It exposed the vulnerabilities of Russian and Chinese air defenses, tilted the global balance of power in Washington’s favor and became the best sales pitch Lockheed Martin could ever ask for.
Beyond defense, Israeli firms are the second-largest source of foreign listings on NASDAQ, and Israeli investment in the United States has tripled to nearly $24 billion.
In New York alone, 600 Israeli-founded companies generated $19.5 billion in output last year and supported 57,000 jobs; bilateral trade tops $49 billion.