Why Does the US
Fund Israel?

The same political machine buying Congressional votes on Israel has been running a divide and conquer strategy inside America for decades. Keep Americans fighting each other over race, immigration and crime — and nobody asks where the money is going. See the full timeline below.

The War on Terror — launched after September 11, 2001 — used the geopolitical framework to reframe the entire Muslim world as a threat to American security. Bush and Cheney used it to invade Iraq — a country that had nothing to do with September 11 as the 9/11 Commission confirmed. Obama expanded drone strikes to seven countries killing an estimated 384 to 807 civilians. The result: Americans spent two decades afraid of Muslims abroad while the same politicians funding Israel's occupation of Muslim land told Americans that Islam was the enemy. Fear was manufactured. Brown University calculated the post-9/11 wars at $8 trillion. Harvard researcher Thomas Stauffer separately calculated the Israel-specific cost at $3 trillion since 1973. The peace that was built was dismantled. And the cycle continued.

These same five companies collectively spent over $67 million lobbying Congress in 2024. They are top donors to the Armed Services Committee members who vote on their contracts. And what do those same politicians tell you when you ask why there is no money for healthcare, Social Security or education? They tell you it is because of immigrants. In 1996 Clinton signed welfare reform cutting benefits to the poorest Americans — the same year Israel received $3 billion in military aid. In 2017 Trump cut $700 billion from Medicaid while signing a defense budget that increased Pentagon spending by $54 billion. The money exists. It is just not going to you.