Excellent raising these critical questions. I agree that the rubble created by 2000 pound bombs imported from the US to destroy whole buildings will be removed with Israeli construction bulldozers and their construction companies will be building new housing or settlements. How do we know? They’ve been doing this successfully in the West Bank for a decade or more, relentless driving Palestinians out of their territory and homes to build their settlements. That happened back in the 1920s and 30s when the zionists moved in with permission from Britain that owned it after taking it from the Ottomans in WWI, captured as a prize. Then as you point out in the late 40s, then in the war in 67 when they defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria who left those areas (WB, Gaza, Golan Heights) they protected, effectively turning them over to Israel to control.
The US will make the easy choices it always has done in supporting our allies, as you accurately review. In November 2021 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a nonpartisan report as it does to give estimates to lawmakers before voting to know how much a proposed piece of law will likely costs. They estimated the proposed universal Pre-K program in the Biden proposal would cost roughly $10.9 billion a year. That is less than the proposed 14.9 billion now proposed for Israel, and the $3 billion plus already spent per year to weaponize Israel. The difference: the plan for Pre-K was shot down while defense spending always moves forward.
That money spent is a choice on priorities and on who gets it. The money for Israel will stay in the US and go to weapons companies who ship the armaments over to Israel; it goes to the rich whites in control of boards like Lockheed for products that vastly are overcharged and used only to kill and are now bombing out buildings. That money doesn’t leave the US and to to Israel to buy their own weapons where ever they want, to shop around the world for good deals. That money could have gone to black American and brown Americans children, or US citizens, who are the future of our country, which would help our single working moms (and dads to be fair). We make choices, but they are the wrong ones. Biden has nothing but fund war; Trump did nothing but fund war. Trump will double that military support for Israel while Biden will continue it as a result of next year’s election. Either way, the children will lose. We will be spending on rebuilding Israel and Ukraine in the same way that we spend on military there. At the expense of our own minority children (and poor white children to be fair).
