The United States sent $22 billion to subsidize genocide.
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IHIP NewsAug 10, 2026
The roughly $22 billion figure is in the range of Costs of War estimates for U.S. military aid and operations tied to Israel after Oct.
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… kind of a system, where anybody can decide that they can do whatever bidding a corporation tells them to do, which, of course, always means that we lose and they win. I want you to think about APAC funding. Who loses? You do. The $3.3 billion at baseline, the $22 billion that we sent to subsidize genocide that is money that you pay into our tax coffers, thinking that it's going to fund your kid's school or build your kid's road, and instead it gets sent abroad to destroy somebody else's school, to destroy their lives, to destroy their low uh roads, to do …
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Contradicts. PolitiFact cites analyst estimates of recent U.S. spending on Israel at $16.3 billion to $21.7 billion, placing the claimed $22 billion just above that range and showing the figure depends on the estimate and scope used.[1]
Supports. Brown University's Watson Institute Costs of War project estimated the U.S. spent over $22 billion on military aid and related operations for Israel and regional operations from Oct. 7, 2023 to Sept. 30, 2024.[3]
Supports. The same project reported at least $21.7 billion in U.S. military aid to Israel from October 2023 to September 2025, a figure consistent with roughly $22 billion in aid.[4][5]
Context. Official CRS data show annual U.S. military aid to Israel around $3.3 to $3.8 billion, so a $22 billion total only holds across multiple years or with the broader operations costs included.[2]
Context. The genocide characterization appears in advocacy and researcher commentary (Watson study author, IPS fact sheet), while other sources such as Reason and Christianity.com do not adopt it; no authoritative body in the sources rules on genocide.[3][6][7][8]
Sources
8 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 primary, 5 not rated, 1 tier 2
- 1What Abdul El-Sayed said about US funding for Israelpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments ...congress.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 3US spent over $22 billion on Israel's military operations in ...browndailyherald.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 4Report: US Spent Over $30B Backing Israel, Regional Wars in 2 ...truthout.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5TRT World - US spent $21.7 billion of American taxpayers' money to fund Israel's war on Gazatrtworld.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6With or without Netanyahu, Israel will want American ...reason.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 7Genocide in Gaza: The Biden Administration’s Role and Legacyips-dc.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 8U.S. Aid to Israel: What Should Christians Consider?christianity.com · not rated · cited for: context
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