kalu_miah
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Actually---it is not as simple as that---. Israel had more in numbers and better weapons systems. Take Mig 21 for example---its flying time only 30 minutes----Phantom on the other hand--- 4 1/2 hours---. Israel had more funtional and better tanks.
IBut then the israelis are warriors----egyptians are farmers---. Israelis are focused on their goal---arabs are clueless--.
Israelis come to fight----arabs are gutless---spineless---.
Egyptians deceived the syrians and jordan in the 73 war---egyptians lied about their goals---.
Arabs never came to fight to win the wars everytime they fought israel.
Kalu miah----israel was never backed up the americans full time---it was due to the fcuk up of the muslims all over the world and middle east specifically the americans got fed up of the arabs.
I had some older american friends---good olds white people from mid west and northern states---they hated israel and jews with a passion---.
You people are clueless how the arab / muslim world ruined its image in the u s----chopped their own hands and legs off by their shenanigans.
You should fully read the articles on US-Israel relations from the links I provided in my previous post:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakist...akistani-pilot-saiful-azam-4.html#post4210942
What I wonder about is this: lets say Israel was loosing the war and was close to getting annihilated, which nation would come forward to help and protect it first? I think we all know the answer to this question.
Yes, Israel was getting military hardware from France and not from US, but that's just nit picking, because they were part of same NATO after all. What if US was just not being overt about its support for Israel, just to show Arab nations that they had a neutral stance.
While I acknowledge that US policy on Israel was still evolving, but it was not to the extent that US did not know which side they were on. They knew exactly which side they were on, but were not ready to declare it to the world, just yet. When push came to shove, they went all out to save Israel's behind, as we see from the USS Liberty incident:
USS Liberty incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel’s Attack on the USS Liberty, Revisited » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The bigger question is why the US government would participate so enthusiastically in the cover-up of a war crime against its own sailors. Well, the Pentagon has never been slow to hide its own incompetence. And there’s plenty of that in the Liberty affair: bungled communications, refusal to provide an escort, situating the defenseless Liberty too close to a raging battle, the inability to intervene in the attack and the inexcusably long time it took to reach the battered ship and its wounded.
That’s par for the course. But something else was going on that would only come to light later. Through most of the 1960s, the US congress had imposed a ban on the sale of arms to both Israel and Jordan. But at the time of the Liberty attack, the Pentagon (and its allies in the White House and on the Hill) was seeking to have this proscription overturned. The top brass certainly knew that any evidence of a deliberate attack on a US Navy ship by the IDF would scuttle their plans. So they hushed it up.
In January 1968, the arms embargo on Israel was lifted and the sale of American weapons began to flow. By 1971, Israel was buying $600 million of American-made weapons a year. Two years later the purchases topped $3 billion. Almost overnight, Israel had become the largest buyer of US-made arms and aircraft.
Perversely, then, the IDF’s strike on the Liberty served to weld the US and Israel together, in a kind of political and military embrace. Now, every time the IDF attacks defenseless villages in Gaza and the West Bank with F-16s and Apache helicopters, the Palestinians quite rightly see the bloody assaults as a joint operation, with the Pentagon as a hidden partner.
Thus, does the legacy of Liberty live on, one raid after another.