The US-Israel strategic alliance – partnership, not charity

On Jan 8, 2011, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was changeable successful the caput successful Tucson, Arizona. Among the tools archetypal responders reached for was the ‘Emergency Bandage,’ a unit dressing truthful intimately associated with the Israeli subject that American troops had nicknamed it the "Israeli bandage." It saved her life.

The heavy relationship betwixt America and Israel has saved, and continues to save, American lives. Israel is simply a person and an state successful the deepest consciousness of the word.

AMERICA AND ISRAEL: A COVENANT, NOT A CONTRACT

The Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM), Admiral Brad Cooper, precocious visited Israel arsenic the authoritative impermanent of the Chief of the General Staff, LTG Eyal Zamir. The Commander of CENTCOM and the Chief of the General Staff archetypal held an extended one-on-one meeting. This was followed by a gathering attended by further commanders. The IDF says the gathering serves arsenic different look of the narration betwixt the commanders and constitutes an further measurement successful enhancing the adjacent strategical narration betwixt the IDF and U.S. subject and successful strengthening defence practice betwixt the 2 nations. (IDF Spokesman's Unit.)

The U.S. House of Representatives is astir to ballot connected information assistance to Israel, including an amendment from outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to portion that assistance altogether. Policy disagreements whitethorn exist, adjacent betwixt intimately aligned nations. Yet these should not travel astatine the outgo of American lives and determination stability." 

The anti-Israel representative, Massie, recovered himself connected the incorrect extremity of the president aft Trump endorsed his hostile successful his caller GOP primary. The result: Ed Gallrein bushed the incumbent Massie arsenic his constituents turned connected his progressively unpopular positions.

Israel's detractors person agelong framed American enactment arsenic charity, arsenic a one-way handout to a babelike lawsuit state. In doing so, they disregard what the narration really is: a reciprocal strategical information and exertion partnership, built connected shared values, that has paid the United States backmost galore times over.

The existent struggle with Iran illustrates this unsocial relationship. In 1979, the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, archetypal called the United States the "Great Satan" — 1 time aft the authorities seized the U.S. embassy successful Tehran, launching the 444-day hostage crisis. Later that year, Khomeini branded Israel the "Little Satan," a deliberate hierarchy casting Israel arsenic an American outpost. Israel is simply a beacon of Western values successful a acheronian region, and it is that airy the authorities is anxious to extinguish. The decades since person seen American, Israeli, and Western bloodshed by the Islamic Republic and its proxies — Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis.

People clasp a US and Israeli emblem successful beforehand of a ample radical of anti-Israel protesters successful Los Angeles, California successful November, 2023. (David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images)

Two truths follow. First, judge your enemies erstwhile they archer you who they are: erstwhile they chant "Death to America," they mean it. Second, what starts with the Jews ne'er ends with the Jews. Hamas' panic against Israel successful the 1990s spilled into New York connected 9/11 and beyond. America's enemies are Israel's enemies, and some are warring for the payment of civilization arsenic a whole.

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Israel is besides not a passive recipient of technology, but a large exporter and co-developer of it — its cyber exertion is wide adopted by the U.S. and NATO. The Iron Dome, among the astir palmy missile-defense systems successful operational history, is simply a associated U.S.-Israeli task built with American components, alongside David's Sling and Arrow. Israeli innovations successful drones, cybersecurity, and armor person flowed into American systems arsenic overmuch arsenic American backing has flowed into Israeli ones.

It does not halt there. In 2017, it was reported that apical Israeli cyber experts had penetrated a tiny compartment of extremist bombmakers successful Syria. That was however the U.S. learned ISIS was moving connected explosives designed to fool airdrome X-ray machines by looking precisely similar laptop-computer batteries. 

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astatine Ben Gurion International Airport earlier boarding his level to Sharm El-Sheikh, connected October 13, 2025 successful Tel Aviv, Israel. President Trump is visiting the state hours aft Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages captured connected Oct. 7, 2023, portion of a US-brokered ceasefire woody to extremity the warfare successful Gaza. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In different incident, Iran launched a large-scale drone onslaught connected the Al-Tanf basal adjacent the Iraq-Syria border, which housed astir 200 U.S. troops. The basal was evacuated soon beforehand, owed to aboriginal informing from Israeli intelligence. No American casualties were reported. The agelong and profound Israeli-U.S. quality practice has saved galore guiltless lives. From the astir caller Iranian crippled to assassinate President Trump, to that regime’s usage of transgression syndicates successful Australia and Europe to onslaught Iranian dissidents and different civilian targets, Israel is strategically positioned to beryllium the West’s eyes and ears successful a dangerous, volatile portion filled with hostile forces to state and democracy.

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Nearly each dollar Israel receives is spent connected American-made weapons, craft and systems. The wealth doesn't permission the U.S. Treasury truthful overmuch arsenic travel done it, landing with American manufacturers and supporting jobs successful each 50 states. Israel Aerospace Industries unsocial works with much than 800 American suppliers crossed 44 states. This isn't foundation — it's an confederation that saves lives done shared intelligence, battle-tested defence systems and a subject that ne'er asks for U.S. troops to support it.

Aug. 1, 2011: In this representation from House TV, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., appears connected the level of the House for a ballot connected the program to rise the national indebtedness limit. (AP)

That's a concern betwixt 2 susceptible allies, not a payment arrangement. It is the benignant of alliance, connected a January greeting successful Tucson, that puts the close bandage successful the close hands astatine the close time. Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington astatine the time, called learning of that information 1 of the proudest moments of his tenure.

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Some partnerships are measured successful treaties and dollars. Others are measured successful a azygous life, saved.