[an_guy]

> The pro-Israel lobby has spent roughly 10-15M per year... This is hardly enough to offset the billions of dollars spent in U.S. politics

Those $10-15 mil are given to politicians and the billions are spent from US tax payers money.

> For this to be true it would also require Israel to "buy" presidents who acted against Israel's interests

You might want to look into campaign contributions made by AIPAC and similar isreli institutions to these presidents.

> Most (75-90%) of U.S. Federal military aid to Israel is contingent on Israel buying from American companies.

Which effectively makes these weapons free for Israel. US is literally funding Israeli army.

[avoutos]

> Those $10-15 mil are given to politicians and the billions are spent from US tax payers money.

regardless of where the money comes from, my point was that money is not enough compared to the rest to claim that Israel has "bought" candidates.

> You might want to look into campaign contributions made by AIPAC and similar isreli institutions to these presidents.

The pro-Israel lobby certainly donated to them, it was just not enough to justify the claim that Israel has "bought all previous US presidents." And the fact that those presidents acted against Israel's interests shows that if there was an attempt to "buy" them, it failed with respect to policy.

> Which effectively makes these weapons free for Israel. US is literally funding Israeli army.

You are right that the U.S. is funding Israel's military, but my point was that there are in fact conditions to the funding and the U.S. does get something in return if you consider the indirect subsidy of the American defense industry.