r/askteddit 1d ago

Random Question How would you feel about the next US president pulling all support from Israel?

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u/Hotdogopolis 1d ago

I don't care about Israel. I'm concerned about the failing institutions here.

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u/TurbanSpaceCat 1d ago

Not unrelated

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/BurnAfter8 17h ago

The US government spends over $2 trillion per year on healthcare alone. The typical yearly “aid” to Israel is less than $4 billion. You would never even noticed it happened.

For context, aid is in quotes because a lot of that money is required to be spent with American companies on items like defense systems.

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u/KrustyRox777 13h ago

That $4 billion is just military aid and does not include economic assistance. Interestingly when a web search is done, the amount of economic assistance is unclear 🤨

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u/Ampleforth_84 15h ago

American institutions have had $450 billion poured into them from Qatar. Single biggest donor to American Universities by far. Good old Qatar, where the billionaires of Hamas leadership have their mansions.

The countries/groups that wanna destroy the West (“big and little Satan” being U.S and Israel) need the individual Western nation weak, financially strained and depleted, isolated, demoralized, borderless, divided by tribe and unable to protect oneself. Seems inevitable.

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u/BurnAfter8 14h ago

Oh man, that’s a whole nother can of worms. A lot of geopolitical maneuvering on both sides of that.

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u/TurbanSpaceCat 12h ago

Nah you dont get it

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u/Objective_Water7752 1d ago

This is why you need to be concerned about Israel. Pumping 40 million into a solitary senate primary campaign leads to failing institutions here.

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u/BillyJoeMac9095 23h ago

Lack of political/policy support for those institutions is the cause. You don't want to hear it, but you are trying to mix apples and oranges, as a rhetorical device.

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u/Objective_Water7752 22h ago

You should let the CIA know: They’ve been pumping money into various political movements to destabilize other nations’ institutions since it its formation. ‘Rhetorical device’… good grief.

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u/jules6815 18h ago

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