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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Yoram Ettinger</title>
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		<title>America’s Unique Ally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yoram Ettinger]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel remains America’s most credible, capable ally in the Middle East.]]></description>
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<p><strong>This article is reprinted from <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html">Ynetnews.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The seismic developments in <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3488497,00.html" target="_blank">Egypt</a> and throughout the Arab Middle East highlight <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284752,00.html" target="_blank">Israel&#8217;s</a> unique contribution to vital US interests.<span> </span></p>
<p><span>The significance of Israel&#8217;s strategic added-value is underlined  by uncertain and shifty Arab ideologies, policies, alliances and  allegiances, by the increasing vulnerability of pro-US Arab regimes, the  intensifying unruly nature of Arab societies, the exacerbation of  Islamic terrorism, the Iranian nuclear threat, the deepening penetration  of the Arab Middle East by Russia and China, the recent erosion of the  US posture of deterrence and the expected US evacuation of Iraq and  Afghanistan. </span></p>
<p><span>Israel&#8217;s  reliability, capability, credibility, stability, democracy and  non-conditional alliance with the US are anomalous in the Middle East.<br />
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<p><span>Egypt &#8211; a beneficiary of billions of dollars and  state-of-the-art US military systems – enhances strategic ties with  North Korea, Russia and China, agitates the Horn of Africa and Sudan,  consistently votes against the US at the UN and institutionalizes  hate-education. A post-Mubarak regime could overtly join an anti-US  axis. </span></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3284215,00.html%20" target="_blank">Iran&#8217;s</a> Shah had access to the most advanced US military systems. However, the  Shah was toppled; from a staunch US ally, Iran was transformed into the  most effective anti-US regime in the world.Libya&#8217;s King Idris granted the US, in 1954, the use of Wheelus Air  Base, which became the largest US Air Force base outside the USA. In  1969, Colonel Qaddafi overthrew King Idris and Wheelus serviced the  Soviet Air Force.</span></p>
<p>Turkey shifted, in 2002, from a cornerstone of the US and NATO  posture of deterrence to a major pro-Russia supporter of the anti-US  Iran-Syria axis. Jordan –a recipient of US foreign aid – was one of only  two Arab regimes that supported Saddam Hussein&#8217;s 1990 invasion of  Kuwait. Jordan&#8217;s port of Aqaba became Saddam&#8217;s most critical route of  supplies during the preparations for the 1991US-Iraq War.</p>
<p>Iraq was pro-Western until the1958 anti-Western coup. However,  Saddam Hussein – who ruled Iraq since 1979 &#8211; gained the confidence of  the US. Therefore, he benefitted from a shared-intelligence agreement,  the transfer of sensitive dual-use American technologies and $5BN loan  guarantees, until his invasion of Kuwait.</p>
<p>Yemen was assisted by the US in its war against Aden and has  benefited from US foreign aid. Still, Sana&#8217;a supported Saddam&#8217;s invasion  of Kuwait and hosts anti-US Islamic terrorists, while occasionally  fighting them. Saudi Arabia depends on the US for its survival in the  face of lethal regional threats. The 1991 and 2003 US Gulf Wars were  largely induced by the concern of a Saddam takeover of Saudi Arabia.  However, Riyadh bankrolls the operations of anti-US Islamic  organizations in the US and anti-US Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p><strong>‘Israel equal to 5 CIAs’</strong></p>
<p>Israel, on the other hand, was described by the late General  Alexander Haig, who was a Supreme Commander of NATO and a US Secretary  of State, as &#8220;the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require  even one US soldier, cannot be sunk, is the most cost-effective and  battle-tested, located in a region which is critical to vital US  interests. If there would not be an Israel, the US would have to deploy  real aircraft carriers, along with tens of thousands of US soldiers,  which would cost tens of billions of dollars annually, dragging the US  unnecessarily into local, regional and global conflicts. All of which is  spared by the Jewish State.&#8221;</p>
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