Here’s What Israel Is Really Costing American Taxpayers

It is often reported that Israel receives about $9.2 billion every year in the form of economic aid from the U.S. government, but there are many billions of dollars more in hidden costs and economic losses lurking beneath the surface. A recently published economic analysis concluded that U.S. support for the state of Israel has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $3 trillion. About 60 percent of those costs (about $1.7 trillion) arose from the U.S. defense of the ever-expanding Israeli empire.

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Israeli DM Criticizes US Military Aid to Lebanon

Just one day after the Lebanese government announced the results of its elections, in which the Hezbollah-led opposition bloc was narrowly defeated, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak criticized the United States for continuing to supply military aid to the Lebanese governcment.

“We don’t like the supply of American weapons to Lebanon’s army over recent months, as well as the planned; these arms are likely to reach Hezbollah’s hands,” Barak insisted.

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