The Palestine Question

i was looking into this last night after reading this thread because i was astounded as to why the US donates so much of it's foreign aid to Israel, disproportionately to the point of unbelievable.

Look at this ! Holy fuck, that's a lot for such a small country

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/US_aid_to_Israel.gif

and from here this is what stood out the most

Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world's population and already has one of the world's higher per capita incomes
something is really not right.

If the above article is correct, US intentions in relation to Israel seems to be control of the region. But what was in it for the US ?

Weapons it seems.

Matti Peled, former Israeli major general and Knesset member, told Zunes that he and most Israeli generals believe this aid is "little more than an American subsidy to U.S. arms manufacturers," considering that the majority of military aid to Israel is used to buy weapons from the U.S. Moreover, arms to Israel create more demand for weaponry in Arab states. According to Zunes, "the Israelis announced back in 1991 that they supported the idea of a freeze in Middle East arms transfers, yet it was the United States that rejected it."

I was surprised.