The US does a lot more for Israel than give $4 billion annually. That's the absolute minimum required by law. It massively increases whenever Israel fights a war
https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2011926553773384027
The US does a lot more for Israel than give $4 billion annually. That's the absolute minimum required by law. It massively increases whenever Israel fights a war (Biden gave Israel $18 billion in cash alone in 2024).
Beyond that, the US deploys military forces and depletes weapons stockpiles to protect Israel, which costs tens of billions more. The US gives billions more to countries like Egypt and Jordan to prop up governments on the condition that they don't oppose Israel.
The US uses its veto power at the UN and isolates itself from the world to shield Israel, as it did multiple times under Biden.
As for why there were Gaza protests in the EU and elsewhere, that's simple: EU countries, the UK, Australia, Canada are massive pro-Israel governments that aid and support Israel in countless ways. Their citizens are also responsible for what Israel did in Gaza, which is why they protest.
Middle East citizens protest in part because many of their governments accommodate Israel (Jordan, Egypt), while others feel a kinship with Palestinians for religious and ethnic reasons.
By contrast, the US Government doesn't support or aid Iran and is no way responsible for what it's doing. Protests would be irrelevant and nonsensical.
It'd make far more sense to demand that Americans, British and Europeans protest the savage, brutal repression in Saudi Arabia and Egypt since those governments actually fund and prop up those tyrannies.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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