This is a naive question, but when I do a web search on the topic all I get is a lot of obviously slanted information, from both sides. Please correct any misinformation I might have.

My understanding is that the US gives about 33% of it's total foreign aid, or $3 billion per year, to Israel. Israel's 6.5 million people represents just over 0.1% of the population of the world.

I realize that there is a large and often influential Jewish population in the US, and also that Israel is a strategic point and probably wouldn't make it without the aid, but why the support on that scale?

I'm not trying to stir anything up, I'm just looking for some information and as I said most of the stuff on the WWW seems very biassed one way or another, and I know that none of the HZ posters are biassed in any way. (I'd put a smiley face here but I can't)