On Oct 29, 1:30 pm, Kurt Ullman wrote:

Most of US's protecting of Israel takes place in equipping them.- Hide quoted text -

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You mean, we give them money, which they spend buying armaments from
US companies, so the US government does't have to just give the money
to the companies directly which would be embarrassing.

Then they end up testing the arms for us in combat conditions. Back
when the big bad Soviet Union was equipping the Arabs with Migs etc.
it was a good system for everybody. Much better than us actually
skirmishing with the Russians directly, which could develop into
problems.