Aidization of Weapon, Weaponization of Aid: The US-Israel Interventionist Aid in Israeli-Palestinian War

Abstract

The contemporary dynamic of Aid relations has developed beyond the discussion of development and humanitarian motives, as the emerging Interventionist Aid Phase has captured aid as the center of International Relations development. This research aims to integrate the Interventionist Aid Model analysis within the US-Israel Aid relation, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian War. The research focuses on the dynamic between these two as donor and recipient and how they influence the war. The result shows that the US-Israeli aid relationship is indeed an interventionist aid. However, this research concluded that the US-Israel aid relation was the dawn of the Interventionist Aid Phase instead of the Russo-Ukrainian war. This paper found the development of ‘anarchical’ aid within the US-Israel aid relation. This paper also found that the type of aid in the US-Israel relationship is one of the donor-recipient partnerships and a type of aidization of Weapons International Aid Public Policy. This research uses a qualitative-descriptive research type with a literature review method. The analysis was conducted using the three dimensions of the Interventionist Aid Model: the political, conceptual, and historical dimensions.