US aid to Israel

Let me just take a moment to explain and to clarify what US financial aid to Israel, actually means because I think that there is a a good deal of misunderstanding about what that means because it doesn't mean what it apparently means. It doesn't necessarily mean what the headlines will tell you or what you might draw from the headlines. First of all, what this funding bill does not mean is that Israel is going to get $26,000,000,000. It means actually that Israel is going to get roughly $7,000,000,000. And American defense companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are going to get roughly $19,000,000,000.

That's automatic. And you should know that this is the case with any funding package, any funding bill, any financial assistance or military aid or what have you, anything in terms of money that's going from The United States to Israel, this is always going to be the case because by law, all of these allocations to Israel require that Israel spend, 74% of the money given to them by The United States. 74% of that money, by law is required to be spent by Israel purchasing weapons, technology, goods and services and so forth from American companies. So except for the portion of the funding that's in that bill that is supposedly earmarked for humanitarian relief aid to Gaza, pretty much all the rest of that money is slated for updating, upgrading, servicing, replenishing and so forth, repairing Israel's Iron Dome system, their Iron Beam system, and what's called David's Sling. Now all of these systems, the Iron Dome, Iron Beam, and David's Sling, all of these are joint projects between the Israeli weapons company Rafael and American companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.

So this aid package is not so much an aid package for Israel as it is an aid package for the military industrial complex in The United States. And this is generally what US funding for Israel always is. And this is why I've said before that Muslims and pro Palestinian activists and so forth should never overemphasize the alleged power of the so called pro Israel lobby. You know, politicians and Washington insiders, they like to scapegoat, in my opinion, scapegoat, the so called Jewish lobby and their, the the supposed influence, the alleged influence, of the Jewish lobby, as being the most important reason, you know, the sort of, irresistible, undefiable reason behind America's support for Israel. And they sort of, act as if their hands are tied because of the power of the Jewish lobby and so on.

But the truth is that the, so called Jewish lobby or the pro Israel lobby or the, which is a collection of lobbies actually, when we say the Jewish lobby or the, pro Israel lobby, it's a, it's a collection of a variety of lobbies that you can maybe say headed by IPAC, a I p a c, the Israel pro Israel lobby, the main pro Israel lobby. But the fact of the matter is that they have very little to do with US policy. They have very little to do with US policy for Israel. In fact, in my opinion, American policy towards Israel, would be exactly the same over the past fifty years, if there had never been a Jewish lobby, if there had never been a pro Israel lobby. I mean, the fact that, IPAC is the most infamous, you can say, pro Israel lobby, and they spent, last year, around a $100,000,000 lobbying politicians.

In 2023, they spent around a $100,000,000. Okay. That sounds like a lot. But the defense and aerospace lobbies spent roughly $9,000,000,000 in the same period. So approximately 90 times as much as the so called Israel lobby, and it's their industry, defense sector and the aerospace sector and so on, it's their industries, that are the, primary beneficiaries of American support for Israel.

So it's fairly obvious to me who has the most influence here. In my opinion, this aid package actually represents recognition by The United States and by the, OCGFC, by the owners and controllers of global financialized capital, and by the, defense sector and by the aerospace sector and so on, these, weapons industries, that have been the traditional recipients and beneficiaries of American policy towards Israel, it's it's it's in my opinion a recognition by those factions that the window of opportunity is closing for The US to use Israel, to continue using Israel, as an instrument for funneling money into the defense sector, into the military industrial complex. And they are therefore, trying to sort of max out as much as they can before this window closes. It might also represent something of a consolation prize for those American weapons industries, a sort of a parting gift or even a bribe for them to try to convince them to accept the paradigm shift that's underway, the paradigm shift that's taking place, with the global economy and, getting them to accept, how The US is gonna have to operate in that new paradigm. As I've talked about before, the owners and controllers of global financialized capital today, represent a diverse set of financial interests across a broad scope, a broad spectrum, of business sectors.

The military industrial complex is not viable, it's not as viable, as it used to be as a management system for the American economy, and therefore as a driver behind, US foreign policy. Forever wars are not going work moving forward, at least not forever wars in the Global South because the OCGFC, have a wide array of interests, investment projects, and so on in the Global South, and they're going to want stability. In the coming decades, I believe, that Europe, more than any country or any region in the Global South, I think that Europe is going to be the center, of the, so called, what you can call the war economy. Think that America is gonna be focused on arming, and, perpetuating conflicts across the EU, probably spilling over from Ukraine, with maybe a sort of a chain reaction moving through, say, Moldova, Belarus, Poland, and so on. And then with major Western European countries, getting pulled into those conflicts.

I think that's another reason, and I think that that's one of the reasons why The US is contemplating leaving NATO because they don't want to be, obliged to defend, countries, in Europe who get involved in conflicts knowing full well that once a NATO country becomes involved in the conflict, then all of the NATO members are obliged to participate in that conflict. And America doesn't want to have to do that, they want those people over there, to fight each other and to kill each other, and America will just provide them with the weapons. So I think that there's going be, as I've said many times before, think that Europe is going to be a conflict zone, conflict between states and conflict internally in the European countries, countries like Germany. I think there's gonna be internal strife as the populations get increasingly angry and increasingly desperate over their diminishing economy. The economy that is being diminished by design.

By, for example, measures as what I talked about when I was talking about the first story. So I don't see this funding bill by The United States, this funding to Israel, I don't see this being indicative actually of American persistence in maintaining their support for Israel. I see it as America realizing that Israel will not be viable much longer as a tool, for supporting their domestic weapons and defense sectors. And their, domestic, defense sectors have historically been, the, the main drivers of manufacturing, of technological innovation and overall productivity in The United States. So this is very important to them.

So I think that they can see that supporting Israel is not going to be viable much longer, and there's going to be a period between their suspension of their traditional relationship with Israel and the commencement of continent wide conflict in Europe. So during the transition period, they want to make sure that their weapons and defense sectors have a significant bonus to tide them over until Europe can actually explode into a conflict zone. So though I think it's counterintuitive, I know, but I think that this new funding package, is otherwise utterly bizarre, it's utterly bizarre for America to allocate $26,000,000,000 in funding to Israel at this time, in this context, when the when the when the majority of American citizens, when the American when the majority of the American electorate between the ages of 18 and say 35 are actually opposed to US funding for Israel amidst an ongoing genocide in, an election year. It simply doesn't make any sense for you to do something that is so wildly unpopular, and it's such a dramatic, dramatically large amount of money that you are supposedly making available to Israel but you're actually making available to your own defense sector.

To me, I think this represents a desperate money grab by the defense sector that's similar to, say, shoppers on a Black Friday just before closing.