Even if the decades long record of US government aid and support to Israel sometimes makes it look that way, Israel was not a US government creation, and the US government had a real, but still limited share of agency in Israel's founding and Israel's territorial expansion compared to other actors.
Here's the challenge, get the US government to be lead aid provider across the board for Israel at its founding (48-49) or even earlier. And project the effects of that going forward.
I came across an old 2001 or 2002 letter to the editor I wrote to shine a light on the more important roles of others besides the United Stated government, which made me think of this question:
"Mary McGrory’s meandering editorial from March 10,
"It’s Still About Clinton," veers into historical
inaccuracy when it says, “…only the United
States…which founded and funds Israel.” Generous US
aid to Israel has been an undeniable fact for up to 35
years. However, credit (or blame) for the founding of
Israel goes first to the Zionist Jews who settled
there in the first half of the century, and
pro-Zionist Jews around the world. Secondly, it goes
to the Ottoman and British authorities who
administered what is now Israel, and through acts of
commission or omission, allowed the Zionist community
to grow and arm itself. Israel fought its war of
independence primarily with weapons supplied by the
Czechoslovakian government (a transaction blessed by
Stalin's USSR)and the black market (American citizen
Al Schwimmer, was only pardoned last year for
illegally procuring arms for Israel in that war. He
had been denied his voting rights for over fifty years
for breaking the neutrality law).
Arab states like Morocco, Yemen, Libya and Iraq
unwittingly strengthened Israel, encouraging Jewish
emigration to that country when they failed to protect
their own Jewish citizens from mob violence. At this
time, West German reparations were a far bigger
revenue source for Israel than US aid.
Finally, Israel conquered the occupied territories
with arms supplied by the French, not American
government, and, if books like “The Samson Option” or
“Israel and the Bomb” are accurate, the French were
also decisive in Israeli development of nuclear
weapons in the late 60s. Since that time, the Israeli
nuclear deterrent has made a decisive Arab military
victory over Israel impossible, with or without Israel
having US arms.
If the enemies of Israel in Arab countries want to
blame someone for their inability to destroy it, they
should look first to France, whose current Middle East
policy seems designed to try to cover up its early
support for Israel, and then they should look in the
mirror, before scapegoating the United States for
their frustrations.
Here's the challenge, get the US government to be lead aid provider across the board for Israel at its founding (48-49) or even earlier. And project the effects of that going forward.
I came across an old 2001 or 2002 letter to the editor I wrote to shine a light on the more important roles of others besides the United Stated government, which made me think of this question:
"Mary McGrory’s meandering editorial from March 10,
"It’s Still About Clinton," veers into historical
inaccuracy when it says, “…only the United
States…which founded and funds Israel.” Generous US
aid to Israel has been an undeniable fact for up to 35
years. However, credit (or blame) for the founding of
Israel goes first to the Zionist Jews who settled
there in the first half of the century, and
pro-Zionist Jews around the world. Secondly, it goes
to the Ottoman and British authorities who
administered what is now Israel, and through acts of
commission or omission, allowed the Zionist community
to grow and arm itself. Israel fought its war of
independence primarily with weapons supplied by the
Czechoslovakian government (a transaction blessed by
Stalin's USSR)and the black market (American citizen
Al Schwimmer, was only pardoned last year for
illegally procuring arms for Israel in that war. He
had been denied his voting rights for over fifty years
for breaking the neutrality law).
Arab states like Morocco, Yemen, Libya and Iraq
unwittingly strengthened Israel, encouraging Jewish
emigration to that country when they failed to protect
their own Jewish citizens from mob violence. At this
time, West German reparations were a far bigger
revenue source for Israel than US aid.
Finally, Israel conquered the occupied territories
with arms supplied by the French, not American
government, and, if books like “The Samson Option” or
“Israel and the Bomb” are accurate, the French were
also decisive in Israeli development of nuclear
weapons in the late 60s. Since that time, the Israeli
nuclear deterrent has made a decisive Arab military
victory over Israel impossible, with or without Israel
having US arms.
If the enemies of Israel in Arab countries want to
blame someone for their inability to destroy it, they
should look first to France, whose current Middle East
policy seems designed to try to cover up its early
support for Israel, and then they should look in the
mirror, before scapegoating the United States for
their frustrations.