The vast majority of US Aid to Israel is spent on weapons systems purchased from both the US and Israeli MIC.
Those MICs (which now include the vast preponderance of American Media) perpetuates a propaganda system that does things like sways public opinion (See Iraq War Build up) under the guise of reflecting it and deflects it away from inconvenient facts.
Here's is one example of such...
Under global non-proliferation treaties America has signed onto, it is illegal to give financial aid to any country that is an undeclared nuclear signatory.
Israel is an undeclared nuclear state.
Ergo, all foreign aid to Israel is illegal under American law.
America not only continues to give Israel aid but it is now (and has been for years) the number one recipient of US foreign aid (with Egypt coming in a distant second).
America also actively encourages Israel to remain an undeclared nuclear power and has done so from Nixon on down to the present day.
Perhaps a massive protest regarding these facts would help change the governments mind on these topics but sadly these days it seems that the disconnect between public opinion and public policy is practically total.
Sad but true.
The only real way to counter this untenable, unsupportable and ultimately unsustainable one sided and disingenuous support of the Israeli war machine is to achieve a tipping point of conciousness on the subject. Spud believes this can be done by having more people by-pass traditional sources of information or at least by wising them up enuff to start taking all corporate news with a grain of salt while weeding through the massive chaff in order to find the tiny portions of wheat.
In brief, getting folks to think for themsleves.
The advent of blogworld, simultaneous, real-time global communication that destroys the old pyramidal structure of news distribution in favor of a more progressive, horizontal structure, is our last best hope to achieve this aim.
Be Well.
Thank you Spud for clarifying succinctly my question. Now if only MACV1972 would do the same and clarify my question for him. Unfortunately, I get labeled an anti-semite. Sad, but true.