Congress has been informally notified about the pending deal, most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing — in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States.
Congress has been informally notified about the pending deal, most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing — in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States.
Well, it’s an observed fact of human nature that one cannot be both stupid and smart at the same time. The Jews outmaneuvered the Palestinians politically, and ultimately outfoxed them (and the UN). I don’t think it’s plausible that “no one realized”, but Palestinians were not well organized, not well educated, and they naively placed their faith and trust in the lying promises & empty processes of the British and to a lesser extent, the French, for the 50 years before 1948. At least in Palestine. Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and the Saudis seemed to make out ok with the promises made by the British and French, at least in the beginning. Even Egypt did ok, at least until the mid 1950’s when everything in the region began to curdle and sour due in part to internal rivalries among Arab states. Nasser’s egotism and cult of personality. Rivalry & dislike between cousin monarchs in neighboring countries. The rise of Baathism. Constant pivoting between eastern bloc and western bloc. But that was all just more opportunity for the Jews to exploit to their own advantage, which they readily and adroitly did. Again and again.