On Thursday, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced that it secured $8.7 billion in military aid from the US to support its "ongoing military efforts," meaning the genocidal slaughter in Gaza and Israel's dramatic escalation in Lebanon. The ministry said in a statement that its director-general, Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, concluded…
Normally, I could understand offering at least some minimal baseline level of defensive aid (which this is clearly not), but…
Israel has nukes. Why the heck is the US offering defensive aid to a nuclear armed country?
The US doesn’t do this for any other allied (UK, France) or loosely allied neutral (India) country with nukes.