Israel may get F-22s if nation at risk

Jerusalem Post ^ | 04-27-2007 | YAAKOV KATZ

[bedolido]

The United States would be inclined to allow the sale of advanced stealth F-22 fighter jets to the Israeli Air Force if the State of Israel's security was in jeopardy, former US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen told The Jerusalem Post Thursday night.

F-22 Raptor

[chaos_5]

if the State of Israel's security was in jeopardy

I don't know... thats a tough call \s

[JZelle]

Hasn’t Israel always been at risk?

[CaptRon]

Cohen still making defense policy?

[KarlInOhio]

Does anyone in the Mideast have jets that will stay in the sky for more than 15 minutes once Israel decides to take them out? Would they really need anything more than the F-15s they already have?

[omega4179]

then they can sell the raptors to china.

[Obadiah]

So...I guess the Chinese will have the F-22 in about 2 years, huh?

[KarlInOhio]

They better hurry. Hillary might be president in 2009 and the Chinese really wouldn't need a second F-22 from Israel.

[johnny7]

“The United States would be inclined to allow the sale of advanced stealth F-22 fighter jets to the Israeli Air Force if the State of Israel's security was in jeopardy, former US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen told The Jerusalem Post Thursday night.”

I guess the Dems are running everything now...

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

Better do it before the commies take over. If we are going to sell F-22's to Israel, I am 100% in favor of such a sale. we had better do it fast, before the commies now in charge of both houses of congress can find a way to stop it.

Pelosi and her minions, reid and his ilk would rather sell them or give them to the PLO.

[untrained skeptic]

The F-22 would make their pilots lest detectable from the ground and less susceptible to ground based attack.

Israel is in the strange position where if their opponents bring down a single plane, they win a significant political victory over Israel, so there might be a real strategic advantage for Israel to have a few of these.

[Rummyfan]

William Cohen? I hope he no longer has any influence....

[oldbill]

Cohen spent his entire tenure as Secretary of Defense advancing his wife’s career and disassembling the Reagan military.

He is so far out of the loop that it is comic to hear someone actually listens to him.
But this is the media.

[Red Badger]

IF?????????????????........

[taxed2death]

That was the first thought that came to my mind too.

Stupid move. Keep the tech for ourselves.

[SJSAMPLE]

Israel isn’t even in line for the F-35, our true export fighter, let alone F-22s.

Enough of our stuff has gone to China.
I expect it from the Pakis, but not Israel.

[SJackson]

Does anyone in the Mideast have jets that will stay in the sky for more than 15 minutes once Israel decides to take them out? Would they really need anything more than the F-15s they already have?

We sell the Arabs, ex Syria, the same platforms we sell Israel, in many cases more advanced, and more of them. I know it's met with derision here, but Israel considers the Egyptians and Saudis highly competent. A couple of Freepers who have trained the Saudis indicate they're not to be underestimated.

[SJackson]

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[Spirochete]

May as well sell them to China and cut out the middleman.