One sign of changed times: Almost a quarter of Israel’s arms exports last year went to Arab states.
Aid to Israel is now almost exclusively military assistance that can be used only to buy American weaponry.
In reality, it’s not so much aid to Israel as it is a backdoor subsidy to American military contractors, which is one reason some Israelis are cool to it.
“Israel should give up on the American aid,” Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli minister of justice, told me.
“Israel’s economy is strong enough that it does not need aid; security assistance distorts Israel’s economy and creates a false sense of dependency,” Kurtzer said in an email.
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