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To: Polybius

“The next time the Arabs attack Israel, should we just let the two parties “pummel each other into the dirt”?”

Israel did handle its neighbors by itself in 2 wars, and even took out one of our ships to boot!


25 posted on 03/03/2008 4:08:06 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: WoofDog123
“The next time the Arabs attack Israel, should we just let the two parties “pummel each other into the dirt”?”

Israel did handle its neighbors by itself in 2 wars,

Wrong.

Israel cannot wage a major war without massive U.S. logistical support.

Six Day War:

In his book Six Days veteran BBC journalist Jeremy Bowen claims that on 4 June 1967 the Israeli ship Miryam left Felixstowe with cases of machine guns, 105 mm tank shells, and armored vehicles in "the latest of many consignments of arms that had been sent secretly to Israel from British and American reserves since the crisis started" and that "Israeli transport planes had been running a 'shuttle service' in and out of RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire". Bowen claims that Harold Wilson had written to Eshkol saying that he was glad to help as long as the utmost secrecy was maintained

Yom Kippur War:

In the Yom Kippur War, Operation Nickel Grass dwarfed the Berlin Airlift.

Operation Nickel Grass

Nickel Grass: The airlift that saved Israel

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"Amateurs talk about strategy, dilettantes talk about tactics, and professionals talk about logistics."

44 posted on 03/03/2008 4:51:52 PM PST by Polybius
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