17.9 billion is an order of magnitude higher than 1 billion. Do you know how orders of magnitude work?

Also… you didn’t quote anything? Here’s what I said:

I’m under the impression that it would be a lot easier to improve things if the billions spent supporting Israel were instead spent on climate change mitigation.

Easier. We do have to stop supporting Israel to meet our climate goals, but that alone will not be enough. We need to do way more than that. If I miscommunicated that I apologize.