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Diana Kelly's avatar

The old adage in life is true, in all situations. No one is coming to save you.

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Sheldon's avatar

I’ve always felt Israel relying on weaponry from the U.S. was a big mistake. However, I suspect there's a powerful US military-industrial lobby, backed by AIPAC, that wants to keep the status quo 'as is' since it’s a highly lucrative deal for U.S. defense manufacturers. Why so lucrative? Because Israel’s military aid requires her to spend 75% of the aid on U.S. weaponry thereby subsidizing the U.S. military-industrial complex. This also lets the U.S. put its thumb on the scale to influence Israel’s defensive actions while giving our large base of evangelical friends the mistaken belief that the US / Israel bond is unshakeable and resolute based on shared democratic, cultural, and religious values. However, it wasn’t long ago, when Joe Biden thought he might lose Muslim votes in MN and WI that Chuck Schumer and the democrat politicians turned on Israel faster than a rat could scurry up a drain pipe. Just imagine the horror for Israel if Kamala and the democrats would have taken power.

Lastly, Israel has the brainpower and finesse to develop her own state-of-the-art weaponry providing hundreds of thousands of well-paying jobs to Israelis. In fact many of the U.S.’s most advanced weapons were developed by Israel or co-developed between Israel’s Rafael Defense Systems and America’s Raytheon. Weapons manufacturing could boost Israel’s economy exponentially and give her the option to make new military alliances with friendly countries if she wanted. The downside to America besides losing a huge subsidy is it wouldn’t be able to exert control over Israel’s decision making. But isn’t that good for the Jewish State?

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