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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: Imran who wrote (20598)12/12/2002 1:22:47 PM
From: Machaon  Read Replies (1) of 27666
 
<< its not hard for the Israelis (mark, i didnt say jews bc there are non-Israeli jews as well) to beat the arabs in 5 wars as they received and continue to receive tremendous military support. >>

You don't find it amazing that a small country, with a relatively small army can defeat the attacks of hundreds of thousands of hostile Arabs, from five much larger Arab nations?

The Arab nations had huge armies and huge amounts of oil billions, much more than tiny Israel had.

Why do you feel that it was easy for Israel to defeat the huge Arab hordes?

===> "The Jews won their war of independence with minimal help from the West. In fact, they won despite efforts to undermine their military strength." <===

===> "Although the United States vigorously supported the partition resolution, the State Department did not want to provide the Jews with the means to defend themselves. ... Consequently, on December 5, 1947, the U.S. imposed an arms embargo on the region. <===

===> "The Arabs had no difficulty obtaining all the arms they needed. In fact, Jordan's Arab Legion was armed and trained by the British, and led by a British officer. <===

===>"The Jews, on the other hand, were forced to smuggle weapons, principally from Czechoslovakia. When Israel declared its independence in May 1948, the army did not have a single cannon or tank. Its air force consisted of nine obsolete planes." <===

us-israel.org

Remarkable, wasn't it? Isn't it?
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