For years, Israel has been America's secret weapon in defending the interests and lives of the people of the United States.
While the US wants and needs Israel's assistance in securing "human intelligence" (humint) - on-ground intelligence - about what Arab terrorists and Arab rogue nations are planning against America, it does not want to admit that Israel is its irreplaceable source for such deep intel. Israel reluctantly accepts this policy, because America is Israel's ally and friend, but the Jewish state resents this effort to appease Arab nations.
General George Keegan (now deceased), former head of America's Air Force Intelligence, unabashedly and repeatedly stated publically during his life that, "Israel is worth five CIAs" with respect to the intelligence passed to their American counterparts. This wasn't intended as an insult to the CIA, but rather to indicate that Israel was capable of the type of deep penetration into rogue Arab nations and terror cells that the CIA was not.
Some may recall the extraordinary assistance Israel rendered to America's military as they were mobilizing their forces to invade Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1990. Israel briefed America's Military Intelligence on what they had learned through Israeli agents planted deep in Iraq's regime. Additionally, Israel provided an air umbrella of their aircraft, giving cover for the vulnerable incoming air cargo as part of the Desert Shield build-up to Desert Storm. It wasn't the Saudi Air Force that was called upon to protect US transport aircraft carrying American soldiers for the six months needed by our reluctant, foot-dragging Colin Powell (then-head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) to prepare for the war with Saddam.
During the first Gulf War, Desert Storm, which began January 16, 1991, Israel had rescue units planted in the Iraqi deserts to pick up downed American or Israeli pilots (who were prepared to fight) should they be hit by Saddam's SAM missiles. As it turned out, Israeli pilots were forcibly kept on the ground because George Bush and James Baker refused to give Israel the code frequencies that identified friend from foe - lest it offend Syria and Egypt.
For all this invaluable assistance, Bush, Sr., and James Baker fired General Mike Dugan who was the top military authority overseeing the US build-up, because he publically acknowledged Israel's military assistance.
Bush, Baker and Colin Powell had formed a fake coalition of Arab nations who did virtually nothing to assist the American and British forces. All they did was to loan their names, but they refused any fighting role against a fellow Arab nation. For showing up, unarmed and staying far away from battle, Syria and Egypt were gifted with hundreds of millions of American tax-payers' dollars worth of tanks, planes, helicopters and other munitions left over after the war.
I recall that a spokesman for the military at the University of Chicago explaining that they pushed supposedly worn out attack helicopters off the deck of homebound aircraft carriers because they were not worth even being used for spare parts. I expect those helicopters really ended up being gifted to Egypt and Syria, without advising Congress or the GAO. Tricking Congress and the American people seems to have been the policy of that Bush/Baker Administration.
As 39 SCUDs hit Israel, she, for her very real contribution, got a phoney promise that the US Administration would task their pilots to hit the SCUD missile launchers. The American Administration lied and never assigned their pilots that mission, according to the GAO (Government Accounting Office) report long after the war. That ruse was the product of Bush, Baker and Powell displaying their preferred alliance with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and other rogue anti-American Arab nations.
The Chief of Israel's Air Force said over and over that there were no American sorties against the SCUD launchers, but no one believed him. Had the Israelis been allowed to send their own pilots against the launchers, perhaps the SCUD missile wouldn't have hit the American barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 Marines.
One could go back further in Israel's assistance to her ally, America, when she captured Soviet missile systems, radar systems and planes - all of which were sent back to America for inspection. Billions of dollars would have been spent on reverse engineering to learn how to defend against them had US industry not had the captured Soviet equipment and experience that Israel sent to America. Israel's assistance shortened the number of man-hours and money to develop counter-measures against Soviet technology, missiles, radar frequencies and more. Israel, despite her minuscule size, gave back to her ally, America, more than any other nation and, regrettably, received the back of a diplomatic hand in order to appease Saudi Arabia.
Israel developed disposable aircraft fuel containers, allowing fighter aircraft to extend their flying and fighting range. As I recall, the 'thank you' they received from then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was the transfer of this technology to Saudi Arabia and Egypt - despite America's promise to Israel that it would not end up there. Weinberger, like Baker, was well known for his visceral hatred for the Jewish State - not to mention his connections to Arab oil nations, which is still on-going.
The homily "no good deed goes unpunished" comes to mind regarding Israel's assistance to its ally, America. The American people have always supported Israel and Israel has always been truly grateful for their support. Regrettably, Israel usually believed that the various Administrations also supported Israel, when, in fact, the Arabist US State Department and some high-ranking politicians, who had unholy cash ties to Arab nations, often ran a different and pro-Arab foreign policy.
I recall when the American M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, then in first production, using a turbine engine, was failing in every phase of its construction. It sucked up sand, its suspension could not take the punishment, its bearings ate sand, its firing systems on the run were inadequate, etc. Then they called upon Israel's General Israel Tal, who had fathered the Merkava, to assist in de-bugging the M1A1 (denials by the US manufacturers notwithstanding).
The 'thank you' that followed was to charge Israel with stealing the US technology of chrome-plated tank gun barrels (later disproved). This technology was available in at least three countries. Israel had asked for bids on available chrome plating from Sweden's Bofor Company and Germany's Rementhal Company, both of whom had developed chrome plating for gun barrels. It was a phoney accusation inspired by the hostile US State Department - enemies of Israel - and it did make it to the front pages as planned. However, when proven wrong, there was never any printed apology either by the media or the State Department.
The same charge was made about the Merkava's other superior systems. At that point it was decided by General Israel Tal to no longer accept American tanks bids, eliminating the opportunity by the Arabist State Department to raise false claims against Israel.
Israel has developed the Arrow missile system, funded in part by US grants. This is the first and only reliable system that can encrypt incoming missiles with a high degree of probable hits. The US has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in trying to develop local operational intercept missiles, but nothing matches the Israeli Arrow. This system will be bonded with an American manufacturer (Boeing) for production in the US. Here again, this tiny country of Israel has proven to be a giant contributor to the American military.
Israel has been the first and most competent developer of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), now used by America's Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force in battle. These UAVs were especially effective in Kosovo and Iraq. UAVs now being developed for local production in America or Europe often cost twice to five times as much as the Israeli systems.
Presently, American troops are being trained by Israelis on fighting techniques in urban combat, saving American lives. The Israelis learned the hard way how to fight terrorists for over 50 years - in Gaza, Jenin, Hebron - and were pleased to share their experience with American soldiers.
So what does Israel get out of her assistance, as the only democracy in the Middle East and America's most helpful ally?
President George W. Bush in deference to Arab rogue nations and Islamic terrorists, has ordered Israel to create what will be another Arab State of Palestine, which will be an instant terrorist center in the Middle East. The American Administration's foreign policy is led by the pro-Arab State Department. The State Department re-designed the Bush Road Map for Israel to re-divide Jerusalem, abrogating her ancient claim to Solomon's Temple - upon which the Muslims built their AlAksa mosque thousands of years later. Israel has been ordered to give up to Yasser Arafat (or his successors) 30% of her fresh water resources from the aquifers under the Judean hills. Israel has been ordered to abandon the Jordan Valley, which is a natural barrier to tanks coming from Jordan. Powell, leading Bush, wants Israel to allow in a large number of Arabs, called 'Palestinians', as permanent residents, as well as workers. With the workers will come the terrorists, as always.
This is the State Department and Bush family expression of 'thank you' for Israel's years of assistance.
Israel will, no doubt, continue to develop technology, from weapons to pharmaceuticals, and Bush, in deference to the Saudis and Egyptians, will continue to bury Israel's contribution, lest the backward Arabs get angry.
What may be worse is that the State Department, Bush and family know that the mixture of Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians" will never be pacified by anything short of Israel's demise and total occupation of the Jewish nation by Muslims.
Hate and killing of Jews seems to be a joy for Arabs and a relief from life's tedium, which we in the West refuse to understand. So, we push Israel into suicidal accommodations merely to appease the Arabs - all for the sake of oil.
Strange, isn't it, as an advanced civilization returns to her ancestral homeland, becoming the only outpost of democracy in the primitive Middle East, the Europeans and the American president want a terrorist state in place of Israel. There are forces in Europe, the U.N. and the Arabist State Department who would rather see Israel disappear than contribute to the growth of this backward region, whose only products are oil and terror.
Why is it so important for Israel to receive credit and the approval of America for what she has done for our nation? There are many benefits, some obvious and some hidden. For example, when the Arabist State Department or oil interests try to subvert Israel, they must be careful, because both the American Congress and the American people will object strongly. The same is true when the Arab Block in the United Nations offers resolutions that are intended to harm the Jewish State. When American Arab organizations like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) lobby Congress or attack pro-Israel individuals, most Americans will know it is merely Arab propaganda, because they know that Israel, unlike Arab nations, stand squarely behind America. Because of what Israel is known to have done to help America in practical ways, they know Israel is ready to fight alongside American soldiers if called upon to do so.
When Saudi Arabia spends hundreds of millions of dollars in public relations to boost their poor image now that they are known as the terrorists' bank, that propaganda also pays for anti-Israel PR. The American people can disregard Arab prejudice, because they will know Israel backs America - unlike the Arab countries.
When the Congress votes assistance to Israel, Americans know that Israel is one of the few nations who reciprocates in so many ways. Americans know that what Israel has done for its best ally, is not in order to have 'bragging rights', but it is because of the understanding that Israel has had to fight for her existence from the early days of creating a state and from the first day of that state's independence in 1948.
The Palestinian Mandate was partitioned by a United Nations vote in November 1947 into a tiny Jewish State in a sea of belligerent Arab states. Israel had to fight to defend herself every single day for more than 55 years against shootings, car bombs, suicide bombs and six full-scale wars. The Arab/Muslim leaders all pledged the destruction of the Jewish State, even if it took 100 years, 1,000 years - all in the name of Allah - by using Muslim terrorists. Although Israelis did all the fighting, it was the American aid that allowed them to buy and build the armaments to hold off the Arab hordes.
It was the American people who told an agreeable Congress to approve this vital assistance. Israel did her very best within her limited means and paid back to America every loan extended. Additionally, Israel provided a battlefield laboratory for many American weapons' systems. Israel created many of the weapons America now uses. Israel provided vital intelligence about potential and real enemies of America in the Middle East. This payback should not be hidden by any presidential administration or the US State Department in order to appease the hostile Arab nations.
There will be times, as there are now, when President Bush orders Israel to abandon critical territories. Israel must politely refuse. Israelis understand that Bush must face elections in 2004 and needs political victories, but Israel cannot sacrifice her own safety on the word of a president that Arafat and other terrorist nations will not attack again, as they have all promised to do. The American people and the Congress must be the counterbalance to our Administration's political needs and their business connections with the Saudis, et al.
That's all I have to say about that.
While the US wants and needs Israel's assistance in securing "human intelligence" (humint) - on-ground intelligence - about what Arab terrorists and Arab rogue nations are planning against America, it does not want to admit that Israel is its irreplaceable source for such deep intel. Israel reluctantly accepts this policy, because America is Israel's ally and friend, but the Jewish state resents this effort to appease Arab nations.
General George Keegan (now deceased), former head of America's Air Force Intelligence, unabashedly and repeatedly stated publically during his life that, "Israel is worth five CIAs" with respect to the intelligence passed to their American counterparts. This wasn't intended as an insult to the CIA, but rather to indicate that Israel was capable of the type of deep penetration into rogue Arab nations and terror cells that the CIA was not.
Some may recall the extraordinary assistance Israel rendered to America's military as they were mobilizing their forces to invade Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1990. Israel briefed America's Military Intelligence on what they had learned through Israeli agents planted deep in Iraq's regime. Additionally, Israel provided an air umbrella of their aircraft, giving cover for the vulnerable incoming air cargo as part of the Desert Shield build-up to Desert Storm. It wasn't the Saudi Air Force that was called upon to protect US transport aircraft carrying American soldiers for the six months needed by our reluctant, foot-dragging Colin Powell (then-head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) to prepare for the war with Saddam.
During the first Gulf War, Desert Storm, which began January 16, 1991, Israel had rescue units planted in the Iraqi deserts to pick up downed American or Israeli pilots (who were prepared to fight) should they be hit by Saddam's SAM missiles. As it turned out, Israeli pilots were forcibly kept on the ground because George Bush and James Baker refused to give Israel the code frequencies that identified friend from foe - lest it offend Syria and Egypt.
For all this invaluable assistance, Bush, Sr., and James Baker fired General Mike Dugan who was the top military authority overseeing the US build-up, because he publically acknowledged Israel's military assistance.
Bush, Baker and Colin Powell had formed a fake coalition of Arab nations who did virtually nothing to assist the American and British forces. All they did was to loan their names, but they refused any fighting role against a fellow Arab nation. For showing up, unarmed and staying far away from battle, Syria and Egypt were gifted with hundreds of millions of American tax-payers' dollars worth of tanks, planes, helicopters and other munitions left over after the war.
I recall that a spokesman for the military at the University of Chicago explaining that they pushed supposedly worn out attack helicopters off the deck of homebound aircraft carriers because they were not worth even being used for spare parts. I expect those helicopters really ended up being gifted to Egypt and Syria, without advising Congress or the GAO. Tricking Congress and the American people seems to have been the policy of that Bush/Baker Administration.
As 39 SCUDs hit Israel, she, for her very real contribution, got a phoney promise that the US Administration would task their pilots to hit the SCUD missile launchers. The American Administration lied and never assigned their pilots that mission, according to the GAO (Government Accounting Office) report long after the war. That ruse was the product of Bush, Baker and Powell displaying their preferred alliance with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and other rogue anti-American Arab nations.
The Chief of Israel's Air Force said over and over that there were no American sorties against the SCUD launchers, but no one believed him. Had the Israelis been allowed to send their own pilots against the launchers, perhaps the SCUD missile wouldn't have hit the American barracks in Saudi Arabia, killing 28 Marines.
One could go back further in Israel's assistance to her ally, America, when she captured Soviet missile systems, radar systems and planes - all of which were sent back to America for inspection. Billions of dollars would have been spent on reverse engineering to learn how to defend against them had US industry not had the captured Soviet equipment and experience that Israel sent to America. Israel's assistance shortened the number of man-hours and money to develop counter-measures against Soviet technology, missiles, radar frequencies and more. Israel, despite her minuscule size, gave back to her ally, America, more than any other nation and, regrettably, received the back of a diplomatic hand in order to appease Saudi Arabia.
Israel developed disposable aircraft fuel containers, allowing fighter aircraft to extend their flying and fighting range. As I recall, the 'thank you' they received from then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was the transfer of this technology to Saudi Arabia and Egypt - despite America's promise to Israel that it would not end up there. Weinberger, like Baker, was well known for his visceral hatred for the Jewish State - not to mention his connections to Arab oil nations, which is still on-going.
The homily "no good deed goes unpunished" comes to mind regarding Israel's assistance to its ally, America. The American people have always supported Israel and Israel has always been truly grateful for their support. Regrettably, Israel usually believed that the various Administrations also supported Israel, when, in fact, the Arabist US State Department and some high-ranking politicians, who had unholy cash ties to Arab nations, often ran a different and pro-Arab foreign policy.
I recall when the American M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, then in first production, using a turbine engine, was failing in every phase of its construction. It sucked up sand, its suspension could not take the punishment, its bearings ate sand, its firing systems on the run were inadequate, etc. Then they called upon Israel's General Israel Tal, who had fathered the Merkava, to assist in de-bugging the M1A1 (denials by the US manufacturers notwithstanding).
The 'thank you' that followed was to charge Israel with stealing the US technology of chrome-plated tank gun barrels (later disproved). This technology was available in at least three countries. Israel had asked for bids on available chrome plating from Sweden's Bofor Company and Germany's Rementhal Company, both of whom had developed chrome plating for gun barrels. It was a phoney accusation inspired by the hostile US State Department - enemies of Israel - and it did make it to the front pages as planned. However, when proven wrong, there was never any printed apology either by the media or the State Department.
The same charge was made about the Merkava's other superior systems. At that point it was decided by General Israel Tal to no longer accept American tanks bids, eliminating the opportunity by the Arabist State Department to raise false claims against Israel.
Israel has developed the Arrow missile system, funded in part by US grants. This is the first and only reliable system that can encrypt incoming missiles with a high degree of probable hits. The US has spent hundreds of billions of dollars in trying to develop local operational intercept missiles, but nothing matches the Israeli Arrow. This system will be bonded with an American manufacturer (Boeing) for production in the US. Here again, this tiny country of Israel has proven to be a giant contributor to the American military.
Israel has been the first and most competent developer of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), now used by America's Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force in battle. These UAVs were especially effective in Kosovo and Iraq. UAVs now being developed for local production in America or Europe often cost twice to five times as much as the Israeli systems.
Presently, American troops are being trained by Israelis on fighting techniques in urban combat, saving American lives. The Israelis learned the hard way how to fight terrorists for over 50 years - in Gaza, Jenin, Hebron - and were pleased to share their experience with American soldiers.
So what does Israel get out of her assistance, as the only democracy in the Middle East and America's most helpful ally?
President George W. Bush in deference to Arab rogue nations and Islamic terrorists, has ordered Israel to create what will be another Arab State of Palestine, which will be an instant terrorist center in the Middle East. The American Administration's foreign policy is led by the pro-Arab State Department. The State Department re-designed the Bush Road Map for Israel to re-divide Jerusalem, abrogating her ancient claim to Solomon's Temple - upon which the Muslims built their AlAksa mosque thousands of years later. Israel has been ordered to give up to Yasser Arafat (or his successors) 30% of her fresh water resources from the aquifers under the Judean hills. Israel has been ordered to abandon the Jordan Valley, which is a natural barrier to tanks coming from Jordan. Powell, leading Bush, wants Israel to allow in a large number of Arabs, called 'Palestinians', as permanent residents, as well as workers. With the workers will come the terrorists, as always.
This is the State Department and Bush family expression of 'thank you' for Israel's years of assistance.
Israel will, no doubt, continue to develop technology, from weapons to pharmaceuticals, and Bush, in deference to the Saudis and Egyptians, will continue to bury Israel's contribution, lest the backward Arabs get angry.
What may be worse is that the State Department, Bush and family know that the mixture of Arabs who call themselves "Palestinians" will never be pacified by anything short of Israel's demise and total occupation of the Jewish nation by Muslims.
Hate and killing of Jews seems to be a joy for Arabs and a relief from life's tedium, which we in the West refuse to understand. So, we push Israel into suicidal accommodations merely to appease the Arabs - all for the sake of oil.
Strange, isn't it, as an advanced civilization returns to her ancestral homeland, becoming the only outpost of democracy in the primitive Middle East, the Europeans and the American president want a terrorist state in place of Israel. There are forces in Europe, the U.N. and the Arabist State Department who would rather see Israel disappear than contribute to the growth of this backward region, whose only products are oil and terror.
Why is it so important for Israel to receive credit and the approval of America for what she has done for our nation? There are many benefits, some obvious and some hidden. For example, when the Arabist State Department or oil interests try to subvert Israel, they must be careful, because both the American Congress and the American people will object strongly. The same is true when the Arab Block in the United Nations offers resolutions that are intended to harm the Jewish State. When American Arab organizations like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) lobby Congress or attack pro-Israel individuals, most Americans will know it is merely Arab propaganda, because they know that Israel, unlike Arab nations, stand squarely behind America. Because of what Israel is known to have done to help America in practical ways, they know Israel is ready to fight alongside American soldiers if called upon to do so.
When Saudi Arabia spends hundreds of millions of dollars in public relations to boost their poor image now that they are known as the terrorists' bank, that propaganda also pays for anti-Israel PR. The American people can disregard Arab prejudice, because they will know Israel backs America - unlike the Arab countries.
When the Congress votes assistance to Israel, Americans know that Israel is one of the few nations who reciprocates in so many ways. Americans know that what Israel has done for its best ally, is not in order to have 'bragging rights', but it is because of the understanding that Israel has had to fight for her existence from the early days of creating a state and from the first day of that state's independence in 1948.
The Palestinian Mandate was partitioned by a United Nations vote in November 1947 into a tiny Jewish State in a sea of belligerent Arab states. Israel had to fight to defend herself every single day for more than 55 years against shootings, car bombs, suicide bombs and six full-scale wars. The Arab/Muslim leaders all pledged the destruction of the Jewish State, even if it took 100 years, 1,000 years - all in the name of Allah - by using Muslim terrorists. Although Israelis did all the fighting, it was the American aid that allowed them to buy and build the armaments to hold off the Arab hordes.
It was the American people who told an agreeable Congress to approve this vital assistance. Israel did her very best within her limited means and paid back to America every loan extended. Additionally, Israel provided a battlefield laboratory for many American weapons' systems. Israel created many of the weapons America now uses. Israel provided vital intelligence about potential and real enemies of America in the Middle East. This payback should not be hidden by any presidential administration or the US State Department in order to appease the hostile Arab nations.
There will be times, as there are now, when President Bush orders Israel to abandon critical territories. Israel must politely refuse. Israelis understand that Bush must face elections in 2004 and needs political victories, but Israel cannot sacrifice her own safety on the word of a president that Arafat and other terrorist nations will not attack again, as they have all promised to do. The American people and the Congress must be the counterbalance to our Administration's political needs and their business connections with the Saudis, et al.
That's all I have to say about that.