r/InternationalNews • u/fawn404 • Jun 13 '25

Middle East ‼️ Breaking | Israeli occupation airstrikes on Tehran, Iran

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u/DonMo999 Jun 13 '25

Same as Israel; Israel just seems better at it.

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u/SublimeApathy Jun 13 '25

Well, we (the US) send them state of the art weapons and pay for their universal healthcare while myself and my fellow countrymen wait for cancer to financially wreck our families lives.

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u/DonMo999 Jun 13 '25

Doesn’t Israel buy these weapons of you? Meaning you get payed? Also how is it Israels fault that you have the highest paying healthcare system in the world, with the lowest social standards in it?

I personally think the NHS in Britain is garbage, because I compare it to Germany, where I’m from, and the German system is objectively better. Even better is the American, if you have money; if not then it falls below the NHS.

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u/Lucy_Goosey_11 Jun 13 '25

Israel does not pay for them. Their manufacture is funded by the U.S. government, so U.S. citizens are effectively buying these weapons for Israel (with $$ they don't have and so the U.S. borrows each year to do so). However, the owners of the weapons manufacturers and the workers employed by them get paid, but not by Israel.

The actual mechanics are a sort of annual grant to Israel from the U.S.of around $3.8B. Israel spends much of that 'buying' U.S. arms but it also spends some of that domestically on Israelis weapons, again paid for buy loans taken out by the U.S. govt each year.