{"id":557281,"date":"2021-06-08T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557281"},"modified":"2021-06-08T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:37:34","slug":"opinion-four-reasons-why-the-american-israeli-alliance-is-good-for-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-four-reasons-why-the-american-israeli-alliance-is-good-for-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: Four Reasons Why The American Israeli Alliance Is Good For The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fopinion-four-reasons-why-the-american-israeli-alliance-is-good-for-the-united-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557281&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1078110562-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Just eleven minutes after Israel officially declared its independence on May 14, 1948, the United States \u2014 under President Harry S. Truman \u2014 became the first country to recognize the Jewish homeland as a state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1965, seventeen years later, a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/jsource\/US-Israel\/mou031065.pdf\"><span> memorandum of understanding<\/span><\/a><span> was secretly signed between Israel and the United States, thereby establishing a military alliance between the two nations which has continued to thrive to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since 1985, the United States has provided their ally with between $3 and $4 billion in aid each year, money which has been primarily used to strengthen Israel\u2019s military and defend against its not-so-friendly neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To this day, outspoken critics of the alliance argue it\u2019s not mutually beneficial for the United States to participate in any sort of partnership with the Jewish nation-state, let alone a financial and military alliance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here are four reasons why they\u2019re wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Israel is the only American ally in the Middle East<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s hardly a secret that the United States is vastly unpopular throughout most of the Middle East and, more broadly, the Muslim world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the decades-long \u201cWar on Terror\u201d which followed the deadliest terrorist attack in American history on September 11, 2001, Islamic radicalism in countries such as Iraq, Iran, Syria and Afghanistan continue to pose a threat to both the United States and every Western or liberal country in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Conversely, as the only liberal democracy in the region, Israel stands both as a beacon of hope for freedom and as a strategic military asset for the United States. For example, during the Gulf War, Israel supported the United States in its military campaign against the Iraqi government and speculative aggression in Jordan. Not only that, Israel supplied American troops with equipment such as mine plows, night vision goggles, flak vests, gas masks and sandbags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to military actions and supply line support, Israel has also been pivotal in terms of regional intelligence. Just last year, Israeli intelligence helped <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/israel-shared-iranian-general-soleimani-022214283.html\"><span>enable<\/span><\/a><span> the United States\u2019 assassination of Qassem Soleimani, head of the Iranian elite Quds force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Israel\u2019s recent history of military engagements \u2014 15 armed conflicts in 73 years, many of which involved vastly larger enemy numbers \u2014 has also provided a wealth of knowledge for the United States armed forces, offering insight into the military capabilities of states in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Because of Israel\u2019s location and the ideology of its neighbors, the Israeli military has been forced to become one of the most agile, strategically intelligent, battle-hardened forces in the world \u2014 and the United States has taken note. For decades, American soldiers have been stationed in Israel, with joint training exercises between the two allies becoming extremely common.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Israel is an innovator on the world stage<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite being smaller than the state of New Jersey in terms of land mass, the tiny country of Israel was fifth in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-01-22\/germany-nearly-catches-korea-as-innovation-champ-u-s-rebounds\"><span>2019 Bloomberg innovation Index<\/span><\/a><span>, which ranks the world\u2019s most innovative countries. And one of the fields dominated by Israel is that of military innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is no better example of such innovation than the unfortunately famous Iron Dome system, which provides Israel with ground-breaking air-based protection from rocket fire. In 2021 alone, thousands of rockets were launched by the terrorist group, Hamas, targeting Israeli civilians. While damage and loss of life could have been catastrophic, according to Rafael Advanced Systems \u2014 the creator of the Iron Dome \u2014 at least 90% of these rockets have been intercepted by the high-tech system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In simple terms, Israeli innovation has saved countless Israeli lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Iron Dome system is so successful that the United States \u2014 which rarely buys military technology from other countries \u2014 agreed to purchase two Iron Dome batteries equipped with launchers and missiles in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said in a statement, \u201cI am confident that the system will assist the US Army in protecting American troops from ballistic and airborne threats as well as from developing threats in the areas where US troops are deployed on various missions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Israel is responsible for numerous military innovations adopted by the United States, including a variety of unarmed aerial vehicles (drones), the laser rangefinder, and the \u201cTrophy\u201d system which protects vehicles from attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Technology<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Beyond military innovation, Israel is consistently at the forefront of technological advancement, responsible for countless ground-breaking products and services which benefit the United States and other countries across the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Among Israel\u2019s most memorable technological achievements are 1993\u2019s Firewall (which was the original defense system against malware), 1996\u2019s first global instant messenger (ICQ), and the world\u2019s first USB drive in 1999.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The United States has also found technological benefits from Israel\u2019s innovation. For example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/nitro-zeus-a-secret-u-s-plan-for-cyberattack-on-iran\"><span>Operation Olympic Games<\/span><\/a><span> was a covert cyber sabotage operation started under President George W. Bush in 2006 which worked with Israeli intelligence to target the Iranian nuclear facility \u201cNatanz.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The groundbreaking cyberweapon \u2014 one of the first known of its kind \u2014 used in Operation Olympic Games is known as Stuxnet, a malicious computer worm widely accepted as being developed by Israel and the United States. The attack on Natanz reportedly resulted in the physical destruction of 1,000 machines and the infection of 200,000 computers, setting back Iran\u2019s nuclear objectives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Shared Values<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Last, but certainly not least, there is the undeniable fact that Israel and the United States hold a shared set of values, based largely on a Judeo-Christian worldview. These shared values mean that Israel effectively serves as an ideological extension of American influence into the Middle East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Middle East is largely filled with anti-western, authoritarian, radical Islamic countries which share no virtuous commonalities with the United States. Israel, however, is different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Israel is a country dedicated to fair democracy. Every citizen of Israel \u2013 regardless of religion, sexual preference, race, or sex, is entitled to the same rights. While the shared values between other allies appear to be decaying over time, it is unquestionably beneficial for the United States to rely on Israel as not only an ally, but a friend in the Middle East who shares the same values, and is willing to fight alongside the United States to defend those values.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just eleven minutes after Israel officially declared its independence on May 14, 1948, the United States \u2014 under President Harry S. 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