Posted on 10/08/2023 1:48:49 AM PDT by spirited irish
LiveStreaming: The unexpected onslaught by Hamas on Israel resulted in around 500 deaths, making it the deadliest violence in Israel in 50 years. The raid included a heavy rocket bombardment and fighter infiltration from Gaza, resulting in substantial fatalities on both sides.
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U.S. Security Assistance to Israel
American Israeli Public Affairs Committee Briefing Book 2023
The United States has long defined Israel’s survival and security as important to its own national interests. Israel helps the United States meet its growing security challenges through close cooperation and a range of innovative technologies. Through executive commitment and legislative action, America provides Israel with annual security assistance that helps the Middle East’s only democracy defend itself—by itself—against mounting security threats.
History and Terms
The United States has supported Israel politically since its reestablishment in 1948. But it was not until the late 1960s that it began to regularly provide security assistance to the Jewish state. Since then, America has consistently provided Israel with security assistance to help it stay strong and deter its enemies.
U.S. security assistance to Israel promotes our national security and our economy, and helps our ally defend itself against growing threats.
Security Assistance: By means of its annual foreign aid, U.S. security assistance to Israel is the most tangible manifestation of American support for the Jewish state. Assistance primarily takes the form of funding for Israel to purchase the arms needed to defend itself from its adversaries.
QME: A core element of U.S. policy is to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME)—the ability to counter and defeat any credible conventional military threat while sustaining minimal damages and casualties. In 2008, Congress wrote America’s longstanding commitment to Israel’s QME into law and required the president to continually assess whether it is being maintained.
Memoranda of Understanding: In 1998, the United States and Israel signed their first 10-year “Memorandum of Agreement on Security Cooperation” to increase security assistance to Israel while phasing out economic aid. Under the agreement, the United States committed to providing Israel $21.3 billion in security assistance. In 2016, America committed to provide $38 billion under a new 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Serving American Interests
U.S. provides security assistance to key allies around the world. Current law ensures this aid can only be used for “internal security, for legitimate self-defense.”
Anchor of Stability: In an increasingly uncertain Middle East, Israel is the one stable democratic ally upon which America can consistently depend. Cooperation between the two countries in intelligence, homeland security, missile defense and counterterrorism has helped the United States meet its growing security challenges. U.S. support for Israel helps deter regional conflict by making clear to potential foes that they cannot defeat the Jewish state.
Israeli Innovation: As a result of the strong friendship between Israel and the United States, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the U.S. military share technologies and techniques that greatly benefit both nations. Israel has pioneered cutting-edge technologies in cyber defense, unmanned vehicles, sensors and electronic warfare systems, and advanced defenses for military vehicles. In addition, Israeli battlefield medical technologies have saved countless American lives. The innovative use of U.S. military equipment by the IDF, coupled with shared know-how, has helped the U.S. military improve its own equipment and tactics.
Stockpiles: Established in the 1980s, the War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel program consists of up to $3.4 billion of U.S.-owned and -managed weapons and equipment stored in Israel for use by the U.S. military. The IDF may access these reserves during emergencies, if authorized by the U.S. government.
Crucial to Israel’s Security
Mounting Threats: The ongoing instability gripping the region directly threatens the Jewish state. To its north, Israel faces Hezbollah in Lebanon and a growing Iranian presence in Syria; to its south, Israel faces Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza while ISIS-affiliated terrorists roam the Sinai Peninsula; to its west, militant terrorist groups are gaining strength in the West Bank. Israel’s greatest threat remains Iran, which is attempting to surround the Jewish state with terrorist proxies while developing the capability to produce nuclear weapons.
Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
My family and I are safe where we are, but the situation is very very bad.
A complete and total disaster that was bound to happen if you understood how poorly disciplined the IDF really is.
poor discipline = poor fighting ability.
poor training = poor fighting ability
poor leadership = poor fighting ability
poor protocols = poor fighting ability
Welcome to the IDF of 2023.
It should be a shtark warning to the my beloved nation of birth, the once great USA, of what the result of an unsecured border will be.
just like i did yesterday morning, you will wake up to find that the invasion 100% real........
So where’s the IDF? They need the 2nd amendment over there. The right to bear Arma. The IDF wasn’t there to save them.
The IDF is now woke. They've been at peace for 20 years. So they forgot that they live in a bad neighborhood.
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David Khalfa
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The attack is unprecedented both in terms of its scale and its sophistication. Since the Yom Kippur War [on October 6, 1973, an Arab coalition of Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur – the Jewish holy day of atonement, Ed.], Israel has never been confronted with a full-scale ground invasion [like this].
We are talking about Hamas commando forces – special forces operating deep inside Israeli territory – with a modus operandi of a real army. Hardened by battle, they are trained and equipped with modern tactical resources and fight in several places at a time.
They sent eight pickup trucks with around eight Islamist Hamas gunmen [in each] patrolling the streets of towns and villages into southern Israel, killing civilians at point-blank range and taking entire families hostage, including women and children.
This situation is completely unheard of. It is a massive surprise attack, a coordinated attack that requires a level of intelligence and preparation on the part of Hamas. Probably some logistical support, too, from Islamic Jihad on the one hand and Hezbollah and Iran on the other. That would go a long way towards explaining what is happening now.
Why did Israeli intelligence services not see this coming?
David Khalfa: It is a major failure for the Israeli intelligence services. A failure that could even be described as historic and without exaggerating, could be compared to what happened in 1973.
Israel is a country that is on permanent alert, ready to go into battle at any time. It is always on its toes. It is clear that there was a certain degree of unpreparedness, probably an error in the analysis and estimation on the part of Israeli intelligence services, but also in the preparation of Israeli special forces [for an attack like this].
It seems the Israeli army itself is in a state of shock. The country is in the fog of war, and the success of Hamas’s operation largely depends on an element of surprise, but also on joint army manoeuvres.
The attack was three-dimensional; it took place on land, sea and by air. That is probably what surprised the Israelis.
Israel is a country that relies on its technology to anticipate threats and neutralise them before they arise. It is clear that there was an issue regarding anticipation, and probably a problem in their analysis the threat level.
The scenario Israeli intelligence services were expecting was an invasion from the north, via Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. They were blindsided.
They do have a 2nd Amendment, but it’s as free as America’s Second Amendment. I believe nearly every adult can own a gun, if I’m not mistaken, after applying for it.
That's all? Really? WTH?
Thank-you for sharing your wisdom. Very many Americans are waking up to our dangers within and are finally fighting back. However, corruption might now be too deep within foundations and hearts.
I read a lot of soldiers were at home.
Maybe Egypt and Syria will declare war now that the IDF is weak.
I hope you stay safe and are armed for your defense.
I had thought that part of Israel’s strength was that its citizens were all somewhat trained as irregular militia. Is that no longer true?
Flatten Gaza entirely.
Push the rubble into the Med
myths my friend myths.
In America, owning a gun is a constitutional right. In israel it’s a privilege. Huge difference.
Regular joe schmoes like me have to provide a reason to own a gun and they dont make it easy to get one.
I however, did proudly serve the US Army as a Combat Engineer (12B) for 3 years so I can assure you that I know how to lock, load, and fire an M-16, the weapon of the IDF.
May God bless you and keep you safe. May His wrath fall down on all those who wish to harm His people.
What happened to make the IDF so poorly trained and weak? They used to be considered pretty mighty.
wokeness!!!
an outdated mandatory service model
military machine mentality (think navy / air force contracts etc.......)
People were texting for help six hours after the invasion.
Same as here I guess. It is going to be a nasty bumbling WWIII.
Israel could not afford wokeness geographically with what surrounds them.
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