$500m to Israel in midst of Covid relief bill sparks ire – Mondoweiss
Jared Kushner gets his name on plaza at US Embassy in Jerusalem. Dec. 21, 2020. David Friedman is at left. We regularly try to say it’s controversial that Israel receives nearly $4 billion in military aid from the United States every year. Well when the Covid relief bill in the Congress began circulating today, many commentators including in the mainstream have jumped on the fact that the massive legislation is bundled alongside other appropriations that include $500 million in military aid to Israel. The Israel funds are evidently routine portions of a foreign aid bill that was li...
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