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Originally Posted by Thaiboxer18
Really? Based on what? The Arabs got more support from the Russians than the Israelis got from us in 1967, and 1973 wasn't exactly America saving Israel either. In fact, Kissinger had Israel stop when they had the Egyptian army trapped and could have slaughtered them.
Israel didn't get nukes from us either, and they didn't get help from us when they blew up the Iraqi nuclear facility.
I fail to see of any way in which we have prevented the destruction of Israel. If anything, our support of Israel has prevented the destruction of the Arabs, because if the Arabs thought the balance of power were more in their favor, they would have attacked again, and Israel would have nuked them.
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Well shoot, then all this talk about Israel struggling against overwhelming odds and barely surviving, needing US help, were all lies? Fvck, we got ripped off *really* badly then, worse than I'd thought.
You are correct that the French, not the Americans, gave Israel nukes. But that's because France, not America, was Israel's chief ally until about the mid 1960s, when America took over.
It probably helped Israel in blowing up the Iraqi facility that they used F-15s and F-16s to do it, top-rate technology largely gifted to them by US taxpayers (and which, at that time, we would sell to almost nobody else). In an alternate timeline, would Israel have been perfectly fine without US support, and done it all on their own? Possibly, possibly not. Given that it's so unnecessary, I certainly wish they hadn't received more foreign aid than any other nation on Earth over the past 40 years, whilst being the most ungrateful nation on Earth -- and close to the least reliable as an ally.