The U.S. is deeply complicit in the preservation of the Israeli apartheid state.

Unconditional Financial Complicity

To date, the U.S. has provided $158 billion to Israel, almost all in the form of military aid, making Israel the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in history. In 2016, the U.S. agreed to a 10-year $38 billion military package, the largest of its kind in U.S. history.

This aid is funded by U.S. tax dollars with each American paying about $25.25 in weapons to Israel each year, a total of ~$3.8 billion annually.

With so much funding being provided from one government to another, you would hope there’d be some restrictions or conditions applied on the aid, yes?

In fact, hundreds of U.S. politicians have asserted that aid to Israel should remain unconditional, regardless of Israel’s human rights record. The powerful lobbying group AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has lobbied Congressional members extensively to sign onto letters criticizing any conditioning of aid to Israel. Further, they’ve poured millions of dollars into election campaigns to prevent pro-Palestinian candidates from coming to power and disrupting U.S.-Israel relations. Even then, some lawmakers have attempted to challenge the status quo.

The unconditional aid has allowed Israel to:

• Use U.S. weapons to destroy U.S. aid and assets to Gaza
• Kill nearly ~2,500 Palestinian children over the past 23 years
• Destroy 20 Palestinian media outlets in 2021
• Provide protection to illegal Israeli settlers who conducted a pogrom on the Palestinian town of Hawara in March 2023
• Demolish Palestinian homes and structures without any accountability

Interestingly enough, as U.S. aid to Israel has increased, Jewish giving to Israel has been on the decline in recent years, reflecting a widening divide between the increasingly destructive policies of Israel and the values upheld by the broader global Jewish community. Former Israeli military officials, shocked by the horrific destruction and murder imposed upon Palestinians via U.S. arms, have also called for a conditioning of U.S. aid.

Unconditional Diplomatic Immunity

As the U.S. funds Israel’s apartheid regime, it also works equally hard at defending Israel’s crimes against international investigations and criticism. Over the past five decades, the U.S. has blocked 53 U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israel.

Additionally, the U.S. cares deeply about Israel maintaining its control of illegally seized land. Why else would the U.S. urge the U.N. not to update its list of hundreds of companies illegally operating in occupied territories?