FUTURE OF JEWISH
No other country is infantilized as much as Israel.
Joshua Hoffman
August 24, 2024

During the last 11 years of living in Israel, I have spoken to many people across the world who, more often than not, talk about Israel as if its roughly 10 million people do not seem to know what’s good for them. It feels like no other country is infantilized as much as Israel. Many Americans, for instance, think they can project whatever tickles their fancy onto Israelis because of the nearly $4 billion in annual military aid that the U.S. offers Israel, yet plenty of them do not realize that this money is not actual aid in the altruistic sense of the word; it is a mutually beneficial arrangement in which the U.S. receives all types of assets (e.g. technology, defense, intelligence) for literal pennies on the dollar. READ MORE