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Last month, a young man sitting in a political focus group told the group’s moderator that he was “upset” about the $4 billion in military aid that the U.S. deploys annually to Israel. “The amount, since 1948, amounts to $319 billion, adjusted to inflation,” he said. “I can think of multiple things at home that would have been a better allocation for our taxpayer dollars. … I think this money would have been better spent … helping our generation buy homes, rather than military strikes for Israel.”