🇮🇱🇺🇸 Estimating the actual cost of America's support for Israel

I asked Grok to account for the cost of all direct aid, plus money spent on securing peace with Israel's regional neighbours, and any other costs of support that can be measured.

Noting that Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding in 1948, Grok cites the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to show the U.S. has provided Israel with over $310 billion in direct aid (adjusted for inflation) since 1948. This is about $225 billion in military aid, and $80 billion in economic aid.

Since the onset of the Israel-Hamas conflict on October 7, 2023, the U.S. has significantly increased military aid. Grok finds an estimate from A Brown University report, putting the figure to at least $17.9 billion in military aid from October 7, 2023, to late 2024. Additionally, the current MOU (2019–2028) commits the U.S. to $3.8 billion annually, totaling $38 billion over the decade, with $5 billion earmarked for missile defense programs.

But this is just direct aid. The U.S. has also invested heavily in regional stability to support Israel’s security, often tied to peace agreements with neighboring countries. These costs are difficult to measure, and so the numbers Grok generates here are just the most conservative estimate.

🧵 Full thread: https://fxtwitter.com/KeithWoodsYT/status/1896374566454223312

There is a long-standing debate within nationalism on if the success of a nationalist project requires rehabilitating historical National Socialism.

In my latest essay, a response to some recent posts by Joel Davis, I argue it does not:

https://keithwoods.pub/p/nationalism-not-ns

Vitally important essay from Keith Woods. Superb!

#TwoTierJustice This is far from new. Previous sentencing guidelines instruct judges that jail is more harmful for women and that they should consider cultural pressures when sentencing minorities. This is further building on from this, making it the law of this land. It underlines that White men are unfairly treated and that in fact 'institutional racism' is targeted at them. The earlier guidelines were brought in under the 'Conservative' Party, so this is rich.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you

The strategy to silence discussion of Jewish power up to now has been aggressive deplatforming of anyone who broached the topic.

This is still true to an extent, but the greater availability of free speech platforms, the exposure of Zionist influence in the West since October 7, plus "uncancellable" influencers like Candace Owens and Tate taking this issue up has changed the dynamic.

As you see many prominent Jewish voices decrying the new dynamic where large podcasts like Rogan and Theo Von platform this, I believe we will see a new strategy to stifle this discussion in response.

Giving up on banning everyone discussing it, the new strategy will be to try and paint this topic as the reserve of low-iq schizos. You can already observe this on the online right, where larger voices that don't discuss Jewish influence will regularly amplify bad examples of people arguing about this topic, smear "low-iq antisemitism", associate it with third worldism or leftism rather than address the arguments, etc.

While this happens and while new voices like Candace become the public messengers on this topic, it is important to remember that the most intelligent, educated voices on this have been successfully excluded from this conversation by hard power: despite being as organically popular as many of these figures, Nick Fuentes won't receive the same invites; actual academics that discuss this topic like Dr. Kevin MacDonald and Greg Johnson are still banned from X. Johnson can't even maintain an alt account.

This is why, as unpopular as it is, I have taken to targeting some of the "low-iq antisemitism" in our ranks debunking prominent lies from Europa: The Last Battle and the wholesome chungus Hitler stuff. It's no longer enough to just have any discussion of Jewish power out there as a way to break the taboo. We are now in a new era where everyone with an internet connection will encounter it, but they will either dismiss it or investigate it based on how it's presented and how compelling the arguments are. Convincing flat earthers isn't much use to anyone. The topic needs to be discussed intelligently.

So it's on us, the people who have been banging on this topic for years to extreme censorship to continue to offer the whole truth and resist the tendencies to mainstream watered down, often counter-productive versions of it.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my original post, but I agree with everything Joel says here.

And now that there are so many people pushing on the topic of Jewish power from the frame of conspiracies, anti Israel etc. it means we have more reason to take a more ideologically pure approach to the topic as people are discovering those other topics without us – what we can offer is the full picture.

https://t.me/joeldavis_x/1163

lol

Hunter Wallace weighs in on my recent essay and the debate it sparked, arguing modern NS resembles an apolitical fandom like Trekkies more than any real political force:

"Nationalism doesn’t need the apolitical “NS” fandom to succeed. To the extent that people become wrapped up in this subculture, they tend to disengage from politics and encourage others to do so. If people actually tried to do what the historic NSDAP did which was contest state power and win offices all over Germany on behalf of their own ideology, the “NS” fandom would oppose this because that would require engaging with the system and a sense of political realism."

This is a really excellent piece. Check it out:

https://occidentaldissent.com/2025/03/09/keith-woods-nationalism-doesnt-need-national-socialism/

Names listed as Jeffrey Epstein's closest connections in this article:

- Larry Summers

- Reid Hoffman

- Woody Allen

- Ehud Barak

- Leon Black (Blachowitz)

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/jeffrey-epstein-sex-trafficking-financing/2023/05/03/id/1118438/

Joel has published a response to my recent essay:

https://t.me/joeldavis_x/1182

Fair play to Keith posting my response. It's a welcome change to have good faith gentlemanly intellectual debate rather than a shit-flinging contest!

https://t.me/keith_woods/6067

Part 2:

https://occidentaldissent.com/2025/03/10/loser-pilled/

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