The Arrangement - The Subscription (Part2/8)

Part 2 of 8. 300,000,000,000USD. That is the total US financial and military assistance to Israel since 1948, more than the entire Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe.

In this episode of The Arrangement, a special 8-part series from Unusual Practice, we follow the money: AIPAC's $127 million in a single election cycle covering 80% of all congressional seats, a former US congressman on record saying votes in the House are decided not by America's national interest but by how AIPAC scores them, and the complete blackmail architecture from the 1982 Washington Post investigation through to the Epstein network. Every source is linked below.

Sources:

1. AIPAC 2024 election spending — FEC data via Sludge investigative report

   https://readsludge.com/2025/01/24/here-is-all-the-money-aipac-spent-on-the-2024-elections/

2. AIPAC spending in 80% of congressional races — The Intercept

   https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/

3. Congressman Brian Baird on AIPAC congressional influence — Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

   https://www.wrmea.org/009-september/the-aipac-effect.html

4. US total aid to Israel since 1948 — Congressional Research Service

   https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222

5. Symington Amendment and annual Israel waiver — Arms Control Association

   https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/israelprofile

6. Jonathan Pollard spy case — US Department of Justice records

   https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-counterespionage/pollard

7. Israeli intelligence blackmail of US officials — Washington Post, 1982 (archive)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/02/24/israel-bugged-us-officials/

8. West Bank settlement expansion 50% increase — Peace Now / UN OCHA

   https://peacenow.org.il/en/settlements-watch/settlements-data/construction

9. Post-October 7 US military aid $17.9 billion — Brown University Costs of War