America and Israel Support

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America and Israel Support
From the creation of Israel in 1947 to present day, America has supported Israel. The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The United States has given Israel, apart from political and military support, munificent and magnificent assistance in the economic sphere. With America’s help, Israel has grown to be a powerful, modern state.” America has help and turned Israel to a very powerful nation. The United States provides 3 billion dollars to the Israeli government each year. However the real number is about 4.3 billions dollars in total foreign aid and America in total has given Israel 140 billion dollars 3 billion dollars of support equals to $500 per year for each individual Israeli. This is more than any other country America gives to. In contrast, Egypt who gets the second most amount of aid from America collects only $20 per individual. Countries that are very poor and have a high rate of poverty like Pakistan and Haiti only receives 5% of what Israel gets per person. Furthermore, a Foreign Military Financing program enforces countries that receive military aid to spend all the assistance given by America in U.S. because it keeps United States workers employed. Congress passed a special bill that let Israel spend only 1/4th of military assistance from the United States in America. This helped the defense industry of Israel to grow very big and mature. As a result, Israel became the 8th greatest weapon distributer in 2004. In addition, America supports Israel with military assistance that has been very significant towards the well being of Israelis. The United States has given Israel $3 billion dollars to make advance military equipment such as the Lavi aircraft, the Merkava tank, a...

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...IA official record, the quality of Israeli intelligence about Arabs was mostly consisted of gossip stuff and the Israelis did not understand anything about the Arabs. Israelis are incompetent about the Arab world, but gives America intelligence that makes little sense and has almost no value. The strategic value of Israel and quality of intelligence has diminished after the Cold War.
In conclusion, Israel is the one of few countries in the world that America supports unconditionally. However this relationship jeopardizes America’s moral authority in the world. If America wants to be an effective leader of the world, it needs to have credibility and trust with other countries. America helping Israel unconditionally destroys this moral authority that America strives for. Arabs already hate America for giving missiles to Israel to kill innocent children and women

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