The US has spent more than $31 billion in military aid of all kinds for Israel over the past two years.
Specifically, it has allocated more than $21 billion in pure military aid to the Netanyahu government and has at the same time spent around $10 billion on Israel’s remaining “defensive” attacks on targets other than Gaza since October 7, 2023.
Brown University, in a special study called Cost of War, signed by the distinguished William Hartung, an expert on the US military budget, estimated that American taxpayers have been burdened with more than $30 billion for Israel’s military operation in Gaza. And the cost does not include what the American strikes on Iran and Yemen cost.
The study presents irrefutable evidence of the cost of tens of thousands of bombs and weapons of all kinds, which were and are used against the population of Gaza indiscriminately, on armed and civilians.
The study also notes that this support has aroused a strong current of opposition among American citizens, both against their government and against Israel.
A growing opposition, which, however, has not managed to reduce this military support from either the Biden administration or the Trump administration.
The United States, through Israel’s actions, has been involved in the Middle East and other wars. Both the Biden administration and the Trump administration have been involved in military operations indirectly or directly in Yemen, trying to force the Houthis to lift the blockade of the Red Sea and stop attacks on Israel. A policy that the Houthis are implementing in support of Gaza. Despite the billions the US spent, the businesses did not achieve their goal.
Trump has also waged an aggressive war against Iran, and has also repelled missiles aimed at Israel. In total, the US has spent between $10 billion and $13 billion helping Israel wage wars across the Middle East over the past two years.
The study notes that the figures it cites relate to costs up to September 2025 and do not include weapons that the US has promised to send in the near future.
For example, just a few days ago, the White House approved another $6 billion in US military aid to Israel. Washington has promised a minimum of $3.8 billion annually in military aid.
Let those who see Israel’s army and organization as particularly successful and effective consider these amounts and their equivalent in combat power. To put it simply, even mentally disabled people could continue to fight if they had such great financial and military support.
It is important to remember here that this huge economic cost is happening at a time when the US government is laying off thousands of civil servants. Just a few days ago, due to financial difficulties, it temporarily closed many public services and laid off thousands more employees.
Many Trump supporters say that this has happened before and has even happened again under Trump and is a temporary situation that will be overcome. But only someone extremely stupid or blind could put forward as an excuse for bankruptcy… that it has happened again!
And the question remains? What are the invisible forces that compel the US to spend excessively large sums of money approximately 11,000 kilometers away from its territory and even without any indication that there will be an end to these military actions.
The writer’s view – although considered heretical by many – is that the US is spending this money on the military operations of its largest military base. Israel is a unique case in human history. There has been no other such incident in the past, that is, a great power [the US] camouflaged a huge military base, recognizing it as a separate state.
If you see it from this perspective, it becomes understandable why in American foreign and domestic policy, doctrines such as the absurd: “Israel is the US’s greatest ally” survive.
The nearly 270-year history of the United States clearly has more to do with the Hawaiians than with the Israelis…
So the United States is not spending absurd amounts on foreigners, but rather maintaining its army and its military operations in the Middle East.
