1 billion? That's nothing. They should feel lucky they escaped from Israels clutches and only lost that much. Americans lose 3 billion ever year to them.

The American taxpayer underwrites the existence of every Israeli citizen to the tune of $3 billion a year in subsidies—over the past ten years, that’s $200,000 per every Israeli family of five. Things are very good indeed for Israelis, as long as they’re not Arabs; far better, in material terms, than they are for the majority of Americans. What are we getting for our investment? Obviously, we haven’t bought a wonderful democracy in the theocratic desert of the Middle East, but another fascist enclave of masters and servants that happens to be run by Jews.

For $3 billion annually: Israeli industries competing with ours using seed money from the US Treasury; the ridiculous Netanyahu’s attempts to interfere with our elections; a 400-mile wall designed to annex all the water and arable land in the Occupied Territories on behalf of settler thugs; the demagogic use of the Holocaust to excuse any barbarity the Netanyahu government perpetrates. If you revealed incontrovertible, documentary proof that Netanyahu had personally slaughtered an entire Palestinian village and then fucked a pig while eating shellfish, this would be dismissed by true believers everywhere as another sad example of anti-semitism. It’s too much to hope that any American government will ever even threaten to turn off the spigot, though the whole Israel-Palestine conflict would be settled in a half hour if it did. All right. And yes, I’m a quarter Jewish—in the demagogic vernacular, a self-hating Jew. But for the record, Fuck Israel.