General Discussion

The 20% figure represents the percentage of Israel's TOTAL military budget funded by the U.S. in the years PRIOR to the Gaza genocide, not just "military hardware".

Where are you getting your information that only 20% of Israel's hardware comes from U.S. funding? Have a source?

My source, the Stockholm International Peace Institute, says that 69% of Israel's major conventional arms imports between 2019-2023 (before Oct 7) come from the U.S. Another source, Responsible Statecraft, tells me that about 81% of U.S. arms sales to Israel are funded through U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid.

Of course once the Gaza genocide began, arms sales and arms delivery went through the roof - so much so that the Pentagon struggled to find enough cargo planes to carry the materiel.

In roughly the first 8 months of the genocide, the U.S. delivered at least 14,100 MK-84 2,000 pound bombs and 100 2,000 pound BLU-109 bunker-buster bombs in the first 7 weeks alone. More than 500 of these bombs were dropped in the first month alone - mostly in designated Orwellian-named "safe-zones". Imagine that, bombs that are four times heavier than the the largest bombs the U.S. dropped in Syria and Iraq against ISIS.

I won't get into the numbers on the "smaller" bombs, fighter jets, tank ammunition, tactical vehicles, air-to-air missiles, mortar rounds etc. But they amounted to tens of billions of dollars. Everything Israel needed was supplied and largely paid for by the U.S. - except for drones, 120 mm mortar bombs and rifles used by the IDF, but those hardly seem like they would be worth 80% of total "hardware".

Israel could not have devastated Gaza the way it did, nor killed nearly 80,000 people, without U.S. arms and assurances that the munitions would continue flowing.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-weapons-gaza/