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Topic: arms-sales

Taxpayers fund 40,000 bombs for Israel through the standard military aid program

Verdicts: 1 True, 1 Mostly True, 2 Misleading

Rolling Stone is right about the $2.8 billion and the 40,000 bombs. Calling Foreign Military Financing a special program is the error: it is how US aid to Israel has worked for decades.

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