Agreed. They should have been working on that for 75 years.
Demographically speaking, the place chosen couldn’t be worse.
Their choice though.
They have done some things, like their own tanks. And they have their own oil and gas supply, which they didn’t have in 1973.
Depending on a declining US is a fool’s errant anyway. It and its “allies” cannot even keep the Suez Canal open against a terrorist group.