By Global News Service
According to a report by Brown University’s Costs of War project, the U.S. has sent $17.9 billion in military aid to Israel since October 7, 2023. This accounts for the largest amount of military funding ever granted to Israel in a single year. The report analyzes U.S. military funding of Israel from October 7, 2023, to September 30, 2024, during which Israel has been carrying out a genocidal rampage first against Gaza, and now against the rest of the occupied territories and neighboring countries like Lebanon.
Israel’s genocide would not be possible without the bankrolling, supplying, and political backing of the U.S. While the vast majority of people in the U.S. support an arms embargo on Israel, its political class shows no sign of staunching the flow of military aid to Israel.
Israel’s recent escalation into Lebanon would not have been possible without the United States, which supplied the 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs used to kill Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as well as civilians in Beirut.
“We all must ensure nothing like the horrors of October 7 ever happen again. I will do everything in my power to ensure that the threat Hamas poses is eliminated, that it is never again able to govern Gaza, that it fails in its mission to annihilate Israel, and that the people of Gaza are free from the grip of Hamas,” read an October 7, 2024, statement by Vice President Kamala Harris.
from the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service
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