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Re:The Dead Children We Must See by coredog64 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @08:40PM (#38454341)
Israel is an incubator for weapons systems, and generic contributions buy access. The US manufactures the ammunition for Iron Dome, and the DoD is generally keen on adding something like Iron Beam to the abilities of every branch of the service.
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Re:The Dead Children We Must See by bhouston on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @09:05PM (#38454542)
This is just a side effect of the Israel lobby pushing for strong alignment between the US and Israel. The lobby pushes for alignment and dollars and military cooperation follows. You can mixing up cause and effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_lobby_in_the_United_Sta...

For example AIPAC is pledging $100m to target in primaries progressive democrats who have not supported Israel recently. That is a hell of a lot of money: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/17/powerful-pro-israel-...

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Re:The Dead Children We Must See by hbt on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:07PM (#38454966)
the bombs being dropped on Gaza are american bombs. It is not 1% of bombs being american, so I don't know what GDP relativism has to do with it.
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Re:The Dead Children We Must See by bhouston on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @10:12PM (#38455010)
Are you replying to someone else? I didn’t mention gdp or even imply it.
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