Emet News Service

[Some things never change. This commentary, originally written in 1983, is as applicable today as it was then. Nothing in it has changed except for a few names, e.g., Biden in place of Reagan] The long article by Robert W. Gibson. "Israel: An Economic Ward of the U.S." (Los Angeles Times, July 24),   read more ...

“Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong,” said Professor Walter Russell Mead, a leading historian of American foreign policy. He was right. In 1948, Israel was misconstrued by the U.S. State Department as a   read more ...

The return on the annual US investment in Israel On October 2021 and January 2020, Israel's intelligence alerted the US of Iranian drone and missile attacks on US military installations in Southern Syria and Iraq. 200 US soldiers (in Syria) and 1,500 US soldiers (in Iraq) took effective   read more ...

Summary ... The size and advisability of U.S. military aid to Israel, like any appropriation of taxpayer dollars, are fair game. But U.S. assistance to Israel demands far less—in both blood and treasure—than many other American defense relationships around the world. [Although this article was   read more ...

Summary ... Many American detractors of Israel begin by citing that Israel receives the lion’s share of US military aid. The very suggestion conjures the demon of an all-powerful Israel lobby that has turned the US Congress into its pawn. But these figures, while reflecting official direct US   read more ...

Summary ... Most people think friendship between nations is the same as it is for individuals. This, however, is far from the truth. As Lord Palmerston said: "Nations have no permanent friends or allies, just permanent interests." Most American supporters of Israel believe that the US government   read more ...

Summary ... The Americans are clearly committed to their own goals. Let the Jew do no less. Let there be support for a powerful government in Israel that says "No" to the pressure and that lets Washington know that it means it. There appears to be a popular and dangerous misconception that has   read more ...

Ask the average Jew on the street and he'll tell you: Israel needs America in order to survive. Indeed, this view is so entrenched in the Jewish community that few dare question it. Just as a baby needs his mother and an injured person needs his crutches, it seems obvious to many that Israel needs   read more ...

Summary ... During the 1967 Six Day War, was the United States at war, too? And, if so, whose side was it on? It seems that the US sent the USS Liberty to spy on Israeli forces fighting in the Sinai while providing secret real-time battlefield intelligence to the Egyptian military. Israel was not   read more ...

Two weeks ago {June 25, 2006] an IDF soldier — St.-Sgt. Pavel Slotsker — was kidnapped by the Arab Popular Resistance Committees (comprised of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades terrorists). The PRC has made several demands for the solder's release but Israel, to their credit,   read more ...