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...at the expense of the US tax payer.
I mean technically, because everything the government does is taxpayer funded... but they'd be out there somewhere regardless. The carrier fleets are deployed constantly, just moved around depending on where they want to project force. That's just part of the standard annual military budget.
For the benefit of Israel. For their domestic political situation, so they can start their forever war and their leaders never have to admit to failures from the ghetto uprising.