Two years have passed since October 2023 and the number of deaths in Gaza has steadily climbed. An astonishing 80,000., the number of injured exceeded 200,000. What is this concept? It meant that almost every family on that little piece of land was bleeding and crying. Under the ruins, how many lives were buried? It has become a black hole that no one can accurately count.
But that’s far from all.Israel’s war has long been burning out of Gaza.
In southern Lebanon, the conflict has almost become the "new normal". More than 6,000 people have been killed in artillery fire in the past two years, villages have been razed to the ground, and Israel has even set up a de facto "security buffer zone" in the border areas. Consider the territory of other countries as your own backyard.。Remember the air strike on Iran in 2024? The scene of thousands of deaths is still vivid in my mind. Immediately afterwards, air strikes on Yemen and precise strikes on targets in Syria almost never stopped.
Even in the West Bank, previously considered a "safe haven," attacks and conflicts have increased sharply in the past two years. It can be said that Israel is almost alone, At the same time, high-intensity military operations wereined on four or five fronts.。
Seeing here, you will surely come up with the same question as I do: Israel, the land of bullets, where has it come from, such a great underground and real thing?
The answer, in fact, everyone knows, is two words: America is。
“American blood transfusion,” the naked expression of hegemony
Brown University's famous "Cost of War" project recently updated its report. The words inside were not polite: "Israel's war machine would not be able to turn around for a day without U.S. weapons, funds and diplomatic asylum."
This is not an exaggeration. From October 2023 to September 2025, the United States directly or indirectly spent expenditures to support Israel and its own military operations in the Middle East. It has broken 50 billion.This does not include intelligence and technical support that cannot be fully calculated.
Linda Beerms, an expert at Harvard Kennedy School, also confirmed this figure from another angle. She pointed out that maintaining the U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups in the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea, supporting the sky-high price of interceptors for Israel's "Iron Dome" system, and continuously airlifting blockbusters... these expenses add up to an astronomical figure.
Speaking of bombs, here's a core detail. Omar Rahman, a researcher at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, pointedly pointed out: Israel can’t make a massive, precision-guided heavy-pound bomb.。Although it has its own military industry and can make drones and tank parts, the "critical weapons" that really determine the intensity of war destruction, such as those 2000-pound GBU series bombs, rely entirely on U.S. stocks.
It can be said, For every violent explosion in Gaza or Lebanon, there is almost an order from the United States.。U.S. aid is no longer simply "help", but has become the "life-saving management" and "fuel bank" of this war. Without these, Israel's military advantage would be lost.
And this is only the figure of the past two years. If the timeline is lengthened, the total amount of aid provided by the United States to Israel since the founding of the state, The cumulative amount has exceeded US$150 billion。This figure exceeds the aid provided by the United States to any other country. This unreserved support spans the partisan differences between Democrats and Republicans. Whether Trump or Biden signed a major arms sales order to Israel without blinking an eye.
This is no longer an alliance. It is a deep binding, a hegemonic strategy in which the United States uses Israel as a wedge to firmly control the situation in the Middle East.
“Background fire,” the Americans did not do it themselves
However, the most interesting change happened precisely in the United States. The balance was so crooked that even the person sitting on the other end of the scale felt something was wrong.
In the past, supporting Israel in the United States, especially in politics, was "politically correct", and no one dared to publicly oppose it. But now, the wind has changed.
A poll conducted by the Washington Post in mid-2025 surprised many people. Among the American Jewish groups interviewed, As many as 45% of people believe that Israel's military operations in Gaza constitute "genocide"More than 60 percent of Jewish respondents believe Israel has committed war crimes.
You are right, this is the voice of the American Jewish community, which should be the most supportive of Israel. I can’t even see my family.This illustrates the seriousness of the problem, which has gone beyond the scope of geopolitics, touching the basic humanitarian and conscientious bottom lines.
Mattis, vice president of the Washington Center for International Policy, said that the role of the U.S. government in this conflict has become a “negative asset” of the Democratic Party. He warned that if the government cannot face the role of “helper” in the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, It is almost impossible for the Democratic Party to easily pass the 2028 general election。The anti-war sentiment of young and progressive voters is gathering into a strong political pressure.
Of course, in addition to moral torture, the more direct stimulus comes from the tax bill in the hands of every American.
“Our roads are broken, our health insurance gaps are broken, our children go to university to borrow heavy loans, and why can the government raise tens of billions of dollars to support a war on the edge of the sky?” — a fierce post on social media, with hundreds of thousands of praise below.
This is unreasonable. —Duis said more thoroughly: Budget allocation can best reflect a country's priorities. When you find that the government would rather spend money to provide others with bombs than repair the social security network for its own citizens, any normal person who has been in charge of daily necessities will think it's ridiculous. "
Discover the bottom line: Who are the real beneficiaries?
So is the U.S. government really “stupid”? is it better to blame the domestic voters than to so deadly support Israel?
Of course not stupid. Behind this huge "war bill" lies a clear chain of interests. At the top of the chain is the word we have all heard-- The Military Complex.。
This aid of more than $50 billion is not a cash check directly to Israel.The vast majority of it, in the form of arms orders, flows directly to the military giants of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and the United States.
说白了，这套流程是这样的：America is国会批准一笔援助款 ->； 五角大楼用这笔钱向America is军工企业下订单 ->； 企业生产出武器弹药 ->； 再由America is空军运到以色列。
See you understand? Money came out of the left pocket of U.S. taxpayers, exploded in the Middle East, turned a big circle, and eventually steadily fell into the right pocket of the U.S. military-industrial oligarch.
Israel obtained weapons andined regional military hegemony; the U.S. military-industrial complex made a lot of money and stocks rose; and those who paid for it were distant Gaza civilians, and nearby ordinary U.S. taxpayers.
It's a dirty but efficiently functioning closed loop. As long as this closed loop is still there, and as long as the war can still bring profits, peace in the Middle East will always be a distant dream.
Write at the end
Now, the U.S. hegemony has grown to the point that even shameless clothes are lazy.It uses hundreds of billions of dollars and mountainous weapons to force the balance of power in the entire Middle East.
But history tells us that any imbalance will not last long. When external pressure and internal cracks reach a critical point at the same time, no matter how huge an empire is, it may collapse because of a straw.
Today, the anti-war wave in the United States, the widespread condemnation of the international community, the upheaval of the Middle East, is the root that is constantly being added to the grass. The level has been inclined, but the game is far from over. what will happen next, no one can say, but it can be sure that the world is standing at a dangerous crossroads.
For us ordinary people, it may be more meaningful to see the interests behind this conflict and human play than simply standing up and screaming.