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The Israel Air Force is crafting a recommendation to increase production of bombs, missiles and other ammunition at home, in an attempt to reduce its dependence on other countries, especially the United States, a senior air force officer says.

The air force’s stance echoes one by Israel in 1967. After the Six-Day War, French President Charles de Gaulle imposed an arms embargo on Israel, which included tanks, missile boats and Mirage jets.

Israel then switched over its dependence on a foreign power to the United States, which provides the air force with all of its fighter planes and some of its bombs, missiles and intelligence equipment – on top of the development of joint weapons systems for all three layers of air defense.

The senior air force official told Haaretz that without the Americans’ supply of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, especially the air force, Israel would have had a hard time sustaining its war for more than a few months.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    355·
    2 months ago

    If we stopped all shipments today, Israel still has enough weapons and ammo to continue their current spree for about 8 months. I say we cut them off and send these munitions to Ukraine instead.

    • filister@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      But believe me without the US backing all those killings of foreign nationals in foreign countries will cease and they won’t act with the same level of impunity.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
        322·
        2 months ago

        Not israeli media.

        Mentioning that israel could not commit their Genocide without American weapons is a permaban on LemmyWorld/Politics.

        • joyhunter@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          Yes, I’m surprised so many are sticking to that instance despite the mods, maintainers, and main posters all displaying their expertise in Mussolini thought. I guess their fear of tankieism far outweighs their delusions of morality.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      96·
      2 months ago

      The references to Innuendo Studios’ alt-right playbook are… precious.
      Anyone to left of me is secretly to the right.

      Your combative, incendiary rhetorical style is likely to attract bans all the more often. It looks like you’ve gotten more bans on lemmy.ml than anywhere, and we’re generally sympathetic to your points of view.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
        92·
        2 months ago

        Strange pivot since I was not banned for whatever you are describing.

        It looks like you’ve gotten more bans on lemmy.ml than anywhere

        That’s straight up not true.

        • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
          55·
          2 months ago

          Strange pivot since I was not banned for whatever you are describing.

          It’s a general observation.

          That’s just false.

          I guess that could be true: site bans don’t always propagate to the modlogs on other instances.