Israel has received billions of dollars worth of military aid from the USA and also substantial amounts of military aid from the UK and other countries.

This US military support,together with more general financial and economic and diplomatic support, has made Israel into a regional heavyweight power.....a power that is more than willing and able to inflict force on its neighbours in order for it to achieve its objectives.

Israel now has one of the most technologically advanced armed forces in the world.Arms exports from Israel long ago replaced oranges and grapes as the country's main export.Israel is now a heavily militarised society.

Without US aid Israel'e economy would be in a terrible mess and it would have had to have reached a settlement with its neighbours and the Plaestinians a long time ago.

As long as US aid lasts Israel will act as the arm of US imperialism in the Middle East enforcing its will over the control of oil and US .strategic interests.
No blood for oil!
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