Comment by throw10920
12 hours ago
>> That the US contributes doesn’t take away from the billions Israel did and does invest
> Actually it does? It takes about 1/4 away.
It literally does not. The way that every English speaker uses the word "invests" is exactly the opposite of this. If you're going to speak English, you use words as native speakers use them and you don't make up your own definitions.
I am a native english speaker.
Israel “invests” ~30b in military spending.
Of that, ~7b is not their own money, and the could not accept that money and spend it another way.
Therefore, israel “invests” about 1/4 less than it would seem.