In an opinion piece for Fox News, Gordon Sondland, a former US ambassador, argues that American financial and military aid to Israel should not be viewed as charity but as a strategic investment that yields significant security benefits for the United States. He contends that public debate over the aid typically focuses only on what America gives, while overlooking what it receives in return, and argues this is the wrong way to assess the value of the relationship.

Sondland notes that scrutiny of the aid is understandable given America's national debt, which is approaching $40 trillion, and its annual defence budget of roughly $1 trillion. He frames the article as a case for viewing the US-Israel relationship as a strategic partnership rather than a one-way handout, disclosing his own Jewish cultural background before setting out his argument.