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Good for the Czechs. They provided Israel arms openly during the 1948 arms embargo, while the rest of the world supplied the Arabs. A shame GWB never fulfilled his campaign promise.
Per Robert Reich, Quest for Peace, the rest of the world had an arms blockade over the whole middle-east, which Czechoslovakia in the 1950s, acting as a Russian proxy, violated in favor of Egypt. When Egypt was routed in ‘67, the Czechs again acted as a conduit to replenish their arsenal so that they could carry on the war of attrition, and later the Yom Kipur War. Prior to 1948, however, was a different matter, since Czechslovakia was not yet in Soviet orbit until their “revolution” in 1948.