[pseudohadamard]

It's not just that, many years ago an Israeli friend explained to me, when I was puzzled that images of the IDF could have been of the US Army because most of their equipment was US-made, that the US sent monetary aid to Israel which was then immediately returned to the US in the form of arms purchases. So the "aid" was really a US taxpayer-funded subsidy for US arms manufacturers, just without giving them the money directly. If you're a politician in a state with a huge BAE Systems manufacturing plant in it, are you going to vote to cut off the billion-dollar handout they're getting?