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US: Don't worry Israel; we'll ensure your military supremacy


By Stan Goodenough
July 30, 2007

The Bush administration remains committed to ensuring Israel's military supremacy over its Arab neighbors even as it continues to push the Jewish state into relinquishing half its tiny territory for the creation of yet another Arab country - Palestine.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert encouraged his cabinet with this news Sunday morning, revealing that during his June visit to the White House, President George W. Bush had agreed to up US military aid to Israel by 30 billion dollars over the next 10 years.

"A detailed and explicit commitment was given to ensure our qualitative military edge over the Arab states," Olmert said, according to a report in The Jerusalem Post.

Olmert went on to welcome the news that Washington would also be increasing military assistance to the so-called "moderate" Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The State Department has been working for years to keep these states out of the clutches of the more fundamentalist countries like Iran and Saddam Hussein.

But, as Likud Party Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz told the Associated Press: "I can understand the need to support moderate states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but on the other hand we have to remember that governments can be toppled, as in Iran."

The US had supplied Iran with fighter aircraft before the 1979 takeover of the country by Islamist forces.

"Now those same F-14s are being used to threaten US interests in the region," Steinitz said.

A majority of Israelis seem to believe their only hope lies with the United States. The country is therefore extremely sensitive to American manipulation.

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