Comment on How to recover Israel’s national honor and save the US taxpayer billions by Shalom Freedman

Perhaps you are right, and it is a mistake for us to take this aid. But I would point out a number of considerations which makes the question less certain than your categorical declaration of its harmfulness.
Our relationship with the United States is not a matter of military aid alone. As I understand it there is security cooperation on many levels. There is also U.S. diplomatic support.
The aid which constitutes more than half of the military aid given by the U.S. expresses U.S. support of Israel’s defense and is not first and above all a means of dictating to Israel militarily.
Is it completely ridiculous to suppose that Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Establishment might possibly have a reasonable idea of whether this aid is important for Israel’s security.
PS I also find it deplorable that Israel is singled out for criticism by the U.S Administration. I find it hypocritical , stupid, deplorable and immoral. But is the military aid agreement the major reason for this criticism? I suspect it might have more to do with the fact that the U.S. is time and again the only real defender Israel has against the global diplomatic onslaught.