>US religious interests in IsraelChristian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land. It holds that the ingathering of the Jewish diaspora and the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In 1818, President John Adams wrote, "I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation". Harold LeClair Ickes, a senior officials in the Roosevelt admin cabinet, once described the return of the Jews to the Holy Land as the greatest event in history (he's right, you know).>US military interests in IsraelIsrael is one of the world's major exporters of military equipment and a major player in the global arms market. Much of the exports are sold to the USA and Europe. Israel is also involved in the joint development of military technology and it regularly engages in joint military exercises with the USA. The only foreign military installations on Israeli soil are US bases. Israel is a testbed for American weapons and battlefield innovation.President Biden famously said in 1986: "If there were not an Israel, we’d have to invent one".US Secretary of State General Alexander Haig described Israel as "the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security", and that had it not been for Israel, it would have cost the USA many Billions of USD annually to build and deploy additional aircraft carriers in the eastern Mediterranean sea and in the red sea to protect American interests in the region.
>>475724934>US financial interests in IsraelThe USA is deeply invested in the highly developed free-market economy of Israel. Israel has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world after the USA, and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the USA and China. American companies, such as Intel, Microsoft, and Apple, built their first overseas research and development facilities in Israel. More than 400 high-tech multi-national corporations, such as IBM, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Facebook and Motorola have opened R&D centers throughout the country.>US geopolitical interests in IsraelEvery country wants to exert its influence on other countries. The USA is no different. US aid is a currency that America uses to buy influence around the globe. US aid comes with strings attached, leverage and coercion that influence Israel to support American interests.
>>475724953>Is US financial aid unique to Israel?Dozens of countries receive financial aid from the USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#By_country>In 2020 Afghanistan got more financial aid than Israel>In 2020 Muslim countries alone received in total 4 times the financial aid that was bestowed upon the one and only Jewish state>Since 2022 Ukraine receives the lion's share of US aidYet this board's obsession with Israeli aid, and complete disregard to other countries' financial aid, expose this board's rabid antisemitic bias (imagine muh shock).
>>475724934Why can't israel keep it's failing democracy and corruption to it's region like all the other arabic countries?
>>475725006Wasn't the 2020 Afghanistan aid unintended?
>>475726360>unintended>Oops here's 4$ BillionSeems plausible
