AMBASSADOR (RET.) YORAM ETTINGER -- Some influential US public opinion molders claim that foreign aid to Israel has been extended at the expense of the US taxpayer and US national security.
REALLY?
Israel was compared by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt (a former US’ Chief of Naval Operations) and General Alexander Haig (a former NATO Supreme Commander and US Secretary of State) to the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require US soldiers on board, and is deployed in a most critical area between Europe-Asia-Africa and between the Mediterranean-Red Sea-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf.
This area is the hotbed of 1,400-year-old intra-Muslim and intra-Arab terrorism and wars, the epicenter of global anti-US Islamic terrorism, the platform of 48% of global oil reserves, and a crucial intersection of Far East-Europe sea lanes.