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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
As blankall points out, Canada does not financially support Israel. The U.S. does. But they also provided $54.6 billion of military support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (the countries behind one of the sides in Yemen) from 2015 to 2021.
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Those are sales through the Foreign Military Sales program though, not something they're giving. The $54.6B is made up of US government-approved weapons sales as well as support and training that those countries paid the US military and contractors for. The whole point of the FMS program is that it doesn't cost taxpayers anything, because the countries that receive it pay for it all. That's not really comparable to the several billion dollars in direct support that Israel receives annually (which covers about 15% of their defense spending).