Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
They were depending on someone else's benevolence to ensure their safety - first France and then the US, and they smartly parlayed fundamentalist Christian sentiments and the Holocaust into a powerful lobby to keep the money and technology flowing from the latter. Israel is, by far, the largest recipient of US foreign aid. The Zionist State would not resemble its current, modern form without American patronage, and probably would not exist.
Well of course they wouldn't exist in their current form if their history was different. They didn't need our help and didn't receive it until the 1970s; however, they did make good use of our AT missiles.

Bring me an alternative partner in the region. Jordan would be nice but a landlocked monarchy, with Israel on one border, isn't even close.