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....
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
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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...
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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 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...
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...
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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..
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Israel has been the first and most competent developer of UAVs now used by America's Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force in battle....
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...
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