Don't Worry, Be Happy...How (Not) To Treat A Friend
By Gerald A. Honigman (08/01/07)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had barely finished calling for a Judea ( "land of the Judeans"--Jews) made Judenrein--free of Jews, who have thousands of years of history and modern ownership connecting them to the land--when it was announced that America had agreed to sell state of the art aircraft and other weaponry to Arabs either still technically at war with or dedicated to the destruction of Israel.
Hitler would be proud--as certainly are his Nazi-affiliated Arabs' descendants. The latters' World War II era icon, Grand Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husseini, was a key Hitler ally in the Middle East and Arafat’s hero.
To show gratitude for earlier German favors, in 1943 al-Husseini repeatedly traveled to Bosnia where, on orders of the Nazi SS, he recruited the notorious Hanjar Troopers, a special Bosnian Muslim Waffen SS company which slaughtered the vast majority of Bosnia's Jews and committed repeated atrocities against Serbs as well.
Keep in mind that the West’s current darling, Arafatian-in-a-suit, Mahmoud Abbas, is a Holocaust denier and is on record calling for Israel’s destruction as a Jewish State. And he’s the “moderate.” Abbas simply plays the game better than the more genocidally honest folks in Hamas. Just ask Arafat's ghost...billions of dollars stashed away in Swiss bank accounts, and so forth.
Back to the current proposed massive American arms sale to Gulf Arab states…
Before proceeding any further, a lesson in demographics and geography is called for...especially for new readers.
Take out a map of the Middle East…a map of the world might do, but you’ll probably need a magnifying glass to assist in this exercise.
Find Israel on the map. Most of its population and industry lie within that miniscule central waistband, made about nine-sixteen miles wide by the ‘49 armistice lines, not borders. The lines simply marked the place where fighting was brought to a halt after the Arabs' combined attempt to nip Israel in the bud in 1948. They were never meant to be permanent borders.
Next, take a look at the vast expanse of the Arab and non-Arab Muslim states surrounding Israel.
The Arabs themselves now claim almost two dozen states (conquered from mostly non-Arab peoples) on over six million square miles of territory.
Israel consists of about one-sixth of one percent of the land just held by Arabs. About five million Israeli Jews are surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs; this doesn’t include, of course, Muslim Iranians (and others) who are amongst Israel’s worst enemies today.
Now that we have some territorial perspective, we can move on…
Several decades earlier, President Jimmy (“Apartheid Israel”) Carter sold Saudi Arabia similar state of the art aircraft and such.
In May of 1978, the sale of over ninety F-15 C/D strike aircraft was narrowly approved by Congress, and only after Riyadh supposedly accepted restrictions that limited its ability to deploy against Israel. To allegedly “assure” this, the aircraft were not to be equipped with conformal fuel tanks (CFTs), preventing them from carrying extra fuel and a full weapons load simultaneously. The Saudis also agreed to refrain from basing the aircraft at the northwestern Tabuk airbase, a few minutes flight time from Israel.
In 1992, sales of seventy-two even more advanced F-15S aircraft were placed under the same and additional restrictions.
All of this was done to supposedly allow an Israel grotesquely out-manned and out-gunned to somehow maintain an edge on the battlefield. Quantitatively, there was nothing America could do…so the edge has always had to be qualitative.
Unfortunately, Israel’s “best friend,” America, has done much over the past years to erode the latter as well.
There are just so many rabbits that fit into a hat...and each time Israel fights an increasingly better enemy, it's ability to continuously perform magic comes at an ever greater cost.
CFTs, AWACS command and control aircraft, etc. and so forth were later supplied to the Saudis, and Riyadh has repeatedly deployed F-15s at Tabuk, neutralizing Israel's relative strategic depth.
The record of implementation for alleged American “restrictions” has thus been poor. And America has done nothing to address this except make excuses and downplay Israel's concerns. The James Baker & Co. crew--petrodollar zillionaires, the Saudis' legal reps, and so forth--have done their jobs well.
One of the latest excuses used to wink at this non-response to Arab non-compliance involved alleged Saudi support for America’s earlier Iraq offensive.
As is well known, however, if it was up to the Saudis, Kuwait, and the smaller Gulf Arab states themselves--despite the billions of dollars in arms they had already received--as the Saudis conquered much of the Arabian Peninsula from the Hashemites early in the 20th century creating Saudi Arabia, the land would most likely be known as Saddam Arabia today.
In 2007, substitute the threat from an Arab Saddam with that of a now even more powerful non-Arab Iran.
The mullahs not only have plans to create their twin Shi’a Islamic Republic to the west , but have recently openly staked claims to Bahrain and elsewhere as well…like Iraq, once part of ancient Iranian empires.
So, America--especially an Arabist-dominated State Department and its various petrodollar buddies--now has its latest excuse to play games at Israel’s expense.
Realistically, the latest proposed arms sales to the Arabs have about as much chance as being used against Iran as me being named an ayatollah. Unlike Israel, Iran won’t worry about precision bombing, targeted killings, and such if push really does come to shove in the Persian aka Arabian Gulf. And the Arabs know this…
So, as the Foggy Folks (who opposed Israel's rebirth in the first place) know quite well, the only targets Arab arms will likely wind up being used against--one way or another--will be kosher ones. And the odds of any new so-called restrictions on renewed massive arms sales to Arabs being honored have about as much chance of success as the earlier ones did.
Back in 2005, the United States imposed sanctions after a dispute over Israel's sale of drones --unmanned aerial vehicles--to China. The Israelis were forced to back down.
America dwarfs Israel in size and is the most powerful nation on Earth.
The weapons Washington sells Israel’s enemies--many of whom are still sworn to its demise--are far more lethal than those drones. The problem doesn’t go away simply by selling the Jews more armaments as well. Again, keep the demographics and geography in mind.
Israel’s qualitative edge these days is mostly--if not entirely--of its own making…upgrades on systems made by the Jews themselves.
Such continuous, callous disregard by America for the minimal, basic security needs of its tiny, beleaguered true friend--whether territorial (recall Rice’s demand for Israel to return to its 9-mile wide,’49 armistice line existence), military, or otherwise--is something which will backfire on America itself not too far down the road.
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