Jeff look, you are wrong.
I'm not saying the US hasn't done a lot for Israel. But the facts are the facts, Israel survived because of Israelis, not because of the US.
The US gave practically no support when Israel was attacked the day they declared themselves a state and were attacked by every country around them.
They defended themselves.
And gained land.
That pattern continued, Israel was attacked, and once did a first strike attack to prevent invasion, over and over with very minimal early support.
It wasn't until after 76 that the US really started putting money and arms to Israel, and even that was only a part of their defense budget.
And while yes that was great for us to have done for them, at the very same time we did the same thing for Egypt and other of Israels historical enemies.
We armed both sides, and after we started doing that....after Israel had already kicked their asses, most of the wars stopped.
Personally I think them getting their asses handed to them time and again was the major deterrent there, the extra arms and money just kind of sealed the deal.
But with or without the US, Israel held its own....and in fact gained ground, till we asked them to give most of it back.
If that upsets you, well that's too bad, but it also happens to be the truth. I don't know why you feel the need to think we are the main reason Israel has survived. Sure, we've helped. But the vast bulk, especially early on, they did themselves.
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