Reply To: Israel's HaKaras HaTov for America

Not to mention the fact that all the “aid” is actually loan guarantees that lower interest rates (although Israel has never defaulted).

Between 1974 and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants (and this was the understanding from the beginning.) Indeed, all past U.S. loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress, which has undoubtedly helped Israel’s often-touted claim that they have never defaulted on a U.S. government loan. U.S. policy since 1984 has been that economic assistance to Israel must equal or exceed Israel’s annual debt repayment to the United States. Unlike other countries, which receive aid in quarterly installments, aid to Israel since 1982 has been given in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year. Israel even lends some of this money back through U.S. treasury bills and collects the additional interest. In addition, there is the more than $1.5 billion in private U.S. funds that go to Israel annually in the form of $1 billion in private tax-deductible donations and $500 million in Israeli bonds. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax-deductible contributions to a foreign government, made possible through a number of Jewish charities, does not exist with any other country. Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world’s population. Between 1949 and 2014 the U.S. has given Israel over $120 billion in aid, about 2/3 being military aid and the rest being economic aid.

As for Kissinger, he delayed the aid deliberately in order to extract concessions.

When you accept charity, you don’t get to set the terms.

Israel saves the U.S. far more in research and development than it was given.

No. The amount given, as noted above, is far in excess of any return.

Then there is all the scientific and other inventions and so many more benefits, too numerous to mention in a forum like this.

Of course Israel benefits from far more U.S. scientific and other inventions, such as you the internet, the telephone, medical and technological, that most of what it invents is on top of US invented intellect.

Copying and pasting without giving credit is plagiarism. Even the Islamic website that used it cited a source