The war against Hamas in Gaza and on six other fronts has forced Israel to rebuild its defense industry, reduce reliance on allies, and prepare to fight future wars with full strategic autonomy.
"Israel can no longer presume Western solidarity in wartime." Israel can no longer even assume a non-muslim or muslim oriented West. Demographics/birth rate assure an eventual "Eurabia" in Western Europe. Unchecked muslim moves to capture US political power assure this in US, albeit perhaps a bit further out (?). Already took NYC. Not a coincidence. Given anti-Israel orientation of US Universities a hostile US seems a matter of when not if.
So scary. What kind of US are we leaving our children? In regard to NYC, my silver lining is: Mamdani will destroy the city, we swoop in and buy Manhattan real estate, eventually we're worth millions. Hey what happened to Staten Island wanting to secede?
Author writes: "In parallel, Rafael and Raytheon opened a joint facility in Arkansas, producing Tamir missiles for both Israel and the U.S. — a canny move that intertwines industrial interests and blunts the edge of potential political estrangement." What makes author so sure missiles produced in USA would be allowed to be shipped/flown out under a hostile US administration? Even it there are contractual obligations to prevent this, you really think a hostile US administration would let that stop them? Always an excuse, technicality, 'for the sake of peace'/'to prevent genocide/appearance of supporting Israel" blablabla.
Agree. The reverse would be smarter; make advantageous for Raytheon and other military manufacturers build centers in Israel as the tech giants have been doing.
Always a better idea to be self-sufficient. The Western European nations are fickle and are falling apart under waves of Muslim migration. I predict one day that countries like Spain and the Netherlands will be begging Israel for military help. The only European nations that Israel should help are Serbia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
We’ve seen it already in Spain & France who went all BDS because of Gaza. However, they “made exceptions” when it came to Israeli technology for Airbus. Which Israel refused to cooperate. What’s good for the goose…
Spain has a communist Prime Minister, and France hasn’t had a decent president since the start of the fifth republic with the possible exceptions of Mitterand and Sarkozy.
Israel is smart enough to figure out alliances, both temporary and permanent. It will work with those countries who want to work with it whether that is Azerbaijan, Hungary or Argentina.
Good article. Update needed for all the ongoing projects with India. Hindu majority surrounded by Islam and China, a reliable partner, and the top recipient of Israeli arms.
Israel must get as independent as possible as quickly as possible. God knows who will become President in America in three years from now. At the rate things are going in the USA, I would not be surprised if a completely anti-Israel Jew hater took office.
We already see this strand of Antisemitism in The USA by the Far Right commentator Tucker Carlson. He travels in Europe and The Middle East now, spouting hatred of Israel and The Jewish People.
The world turned on us once again, brazenly, openly, satanically, in-humankind is saturated, riddled to its gills with JEW hatred, that G-D knows as do all who have lived through this era open disgrace -
It is State-organised too, here in Europe. The solution for us Jews is absolute Self-defence. I long since stopped asking why us, because the Nazis also killed 44 million others including the murder of 27 million Russian souls killed for the same Nazi ideology. The Nazis were perverted scum. Dark side Nazi Elements of The State actively promote antisemitism today to stay in power. So Get to the safety of Israel.
Developing robust domestic military production capabilities is crucial for national security.
This self-sufficiency ensures a reliable supply of essential defense materials. It mitigates risks associated with foreign dependency and geopolitical instability.
Investing in advanced manufacturing and research fosters innovation and technological superiority. Ultimately, strengthening indigenous production fortifies a nation's ability to safeguard its interests and people.
Also, Israeli Rifles and machine guns, with full complements of bullets and Ammunition. Plus, Israel’s famous Uzi too, with magazine rounds: complete self production for all of the above. Am Israel Chai.
Since money is critical for the self sufficiency, Israel has to also stop being dependent on US financial arrangements. It seems most of it is designated for US arms purchases but the US voters view it as “gifts” contributing to the Jew hatred by the new left and the new right; and don’t forget the Islamic influence.
American education is in a race to the bottom with the iron grip of the American activists and America haters powerful Teachers Unions.
It was in the late 1960s when President Johnson first established a bond with Israel. For a reason. Syrian pilots accidently landed a Russian jet in Israel. A Jet fighter with the most advanced technology, beyond anything the US had at the time.
Since that time. Israel became "The Start-Up Nation" "The Genius of Israel".
Shows how Israel is responsible for over 45% of world top modern achievements, and Israel shares those triumphs with America. Science, technology, medicine, military innovations. America benefits from Israeli progress. Israel has to start charging for everything they are developing.
American education is strangled by bureaucracy, administration increased by 700%, while students by 92%, teachers by 250%.
We are not producing minds who can compete in the ever complex world. Israel does.
"American education is in a race to the bottom with the iron grip of the American activists and America haters powerful Teachers Unions."
You must have written that in 1971 - maybe you live in NY, CA or IL but the rest of us don't.
Here's what is really happening - The Wall Street Journal on 02/12/2026 - Kimberly Strassel:
"Teachers Unions Get Desperate"
"If at first (and in many ways) you don’t succeed, sue, sue again. That’s the scorched-earth strategy animating opponents of the school-choice revolution sweeping the country. It’s about all they’ve got left. The question now is how many elected Democrats the teachers unions take down with them.
After decades of swaggering political power, of lording it over parents and legislatures, the education monopoly overplayed its hand during Covid, and the losses are piling up. The biggest government reform story in recent years has been the explosive growth of school choice. Some 34 states now offer vouchers, scholarships or savings accounts, 19 of which have universal choice programs. At the federal level, Donald Trump’s administration is breaking the stranglehold the unions held over the Education Department money box, while a new federal tax-credit scholarship program will further fuel the choice movement. Unions are losing their grip over local school boards. And the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. Afscme (2018), which allowed teachers to opt out of unions, is producing steadily declining membership and fewer dues.
Worse yet for the union bosses, they have lost the voting public, and with it their cast-iron control over the Democratic Party. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis recently announced he’ll opt his state into the new federal tax-credit scholarship program. That followed a surrender by North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, who loudly vetoed a GOP bill requiring the state to join the program, only to say quietly he intends to opt in anyway. Can you blame them? School choice is growing more politically powerful and popular by the day. Both men fear voter blowback from denying parents donor-provided scholarship money for choice programs they love.
NO ONE in my family has ever set foot in a Government School from my grandparents to my grand children.
Eyes wide open. Across the country, parents are increasingly powerless. Institutional actions are impacting parental rights while poisoning the educational environment. School activism is forcing kids into the streets, into Anti-ICE protests, into pro-Hamas rallies, and violating the laws of minors without consent of parents.
With a defense budget of €46 billion, Israel is therefore better equipped to build a credible deterrent than the EU, with a military budget of €380 billion. This demonstrates once again that fighting for self-preservation is the best motivation for overcoming political divisions. Another source of military innovation, incidentally, is Ukraine. As for Europe, that's where it's happening. It would be good, where dependence on the increasingly arbitrary US threatens both sides, to consider greater cooperation. Europe is also pursuing a policy of risk-sharing.
Trump proved something simple but powerful: when Israel is under fire, America stands shoulder to shoulder. No hemming, no “daylight,” no moral lectures mid-battle. That clarity restores deterrence. By contrast, the Obama-Biden years showed how globalist politics can dilute alliances—conditional aid, public pressure campaigns, and bureaucratic second-guessing that signal hesitation to enemies. Strategic friendship requires more than rhetoric; it demands reliability. And yes, modern warfare isn’t just rockets and armor—it’s narrative warfare. Disinformation networks, lawfare campaigns, and diplomatic sabotage shape battlefields before a shot is fired. Neutralizing hostile propaganda ecosystems is part of national defense. Steel wins wars; clarity and loyalty prevent them.
Good! Now, aside from being far less dependent Israel should: 1) stop trying to fight nice wars; 2) immediately destroy the enemy's ability to communicate. I don't know how you do this or how difficult it may be, but seems to me the should be a priority. "The humanitarian toll in Gaza, which Hamas’ propaganda amplified and distorted, became a cudgel in foreign capitals"
There isn't but Israel still has a strong Left Wing and they block every attempt for it's Jews to be armed - stuck on stupid just like the Democrats in the US.
"Israel can no longer presume Western solidarity in wartime." Israel can no longer even assume a non-muslim or muslim oriented West. Demographics/birth rate assure an eventual "Eurabia" in Western Europe. Unchecked muslim moves to capture US political power assure this in US, albeit perhaps a bit further out (?). Already took NYC. Not a coincidence. Given anti-Israel orientation of US Universities a hostile US seems a matter of when not if.
Agreed… from both the left and the right. JD is already pandering to Tucker and Fuentes.
So scary. What kind of US are we leaving our children? In regard to NYC, my silver lining is: Mamdani will destroy the city, we swoop in and buy Manhattan real estate, eventually we're worth millions. Hey what happened to Staten Island wanting to secede?
Author writes: "In parallel, Rafael and Raytheon opened a joint facility in Arkansas, producing Tamir missiles for both Israel and the U.S. — a canny move that intertwines industrial interests and blunts the edge of potential political estrangement." What makes author so sure missiles produced in USA would be allowed to be shipped/flown out under a hostile US administration? Even it there are contractual obligations to prevent this, you really think a hostile US administration would let that stop them? Always an excuse, technicality, 'for the sake of peace'/'to prevent genocide/appearance of supporting Israel" blablabla.
Agree. The reverse would be smarter; make advantageous for Raytheon and other military manufacturers build centers in Israel as the tech giants have been doing.
Always a better idea to be self-sufficient. The Western European nations are fickle and are falling apart under waves of Muslim migration. I predict one day that countries like Spain and the Netherlands will be begging Israel for military help. The only European nations that Israel should help are Serbia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
Yes they will be begging Israel for help, probably sooner than expected.
Israel quietly and coldly will just turn its back on them.
They should do.
That would be justice.
But we already know that Israel doesn’t do that, unfortunately.
That’s right. They are still treating hateful Gazans in their hospitals.
I’ve never understood that.
It makes zero sense to keep your enemies alive.
Agreed. Sinwar?
We’ve seen it already in Spain & France who went all BDS because of Gaza. However, they “made exceptions” when it came to Israeli technology for Airbus. Which Israel refused to cooperate. What’s good for the goose…
Spain has a communist Prime Minister, and France hasn’t had a decent president since the start of the fifth republic with the possible exceptions of Mitterand and Sarkozy.
Poland at least is stuffed with Jew-haters. I believe Hungary is much the same.
I see no reason for Israel to help them.
Pretty much every country is stuffed with Jew haters.
That’s very true. I personally wouldn’t help them.
I’d tell them to go to hell with the terrorist scum they love so much.
"I see no reason for Israel to help them."
Israel is smart enough to figure out alliances, both temporary and permanent. It will work with those countries who want to work with it whether that is Azerbaijan, Hungary or Argentina.
Well put.
The Polish governments and Hungarian governments are actually pro Israel. Viktor Orban of Hungary is proudly pro Israel.
Good article. Update needed for all the ongoing projects with India. Hindu majority surrounded by Islam and China, a reliable partner, and the top recipient of Israeli arms.
I've been calling for exactly this for 35 years.....it's about eff'n time!!
So be it. A hard lesson to learn but your defense industry will be the best in the world. Already is. 🙏🫂💪🇮🇱💙🌹✨
Israel must get as independent as possible as quickly as possible. God knows who will become President in America in three years from now. At the rate things are going in the USA, I would not be surprised if a completely anti-Israel Jew hater took office.
We already see this strand of Antisemitism in The USA by the Far Right commentator Tucker Carlson. He travels in Europe and The Middle East now, spouting hatred of Israel and The Jewish People.
The world turned on us once again, brazenly, openly, satanically, in-humankind is saturated, riddled to its gills with JEW hatred, that G-D knows as do all who have lived through this era open disgrace -
there is but one lesson to learn.
It is State-organised too, here in Europe. The solution for us Jews is absolute Self-defence. I long since stopped asking why us, because the Nazis also killed 44 million others including the murder of 27 million Russian souls killed for the same Nazi ideology. The Nazis were perverted scum. Dark side Nazi Elements of The State actively promote antisemitism today to stay in power. So Get to the safety of Israel.
You are absolutely right!
Developing robust domestic military production capabilities is crucial for national security.
This self-sufficiency ensures a reliable supply of essential defense materials. It mitigates risks associated with foreign dependency and geopolitical instability.
Investing in advanced manufacturing and research fosters innovation and technological superiority. Ultimately, strengthening indigenous production fortifies a nation's ability to safeguard its interests and people.
Also, Israeli Rifles and machine guns, with full complements of bullets and Ammunition. Plus, Israel’s famous Uzi too, with magazine rounds: complete self production for all of the above. Am Israel Chai.
Since money is critical for the self sufficiency, Israel has to also stop being dependent on US financial arrangements. It seems most of it is designated for US arms purchases but the US voters view it as “gifts” contributing to the Jew hatred by the new left and the new right; and don’t forget the Islamic influence.
The Diaspora must help by buying more Israeli Bonds designated to build security independence.
American education is in a race to the bottom with the iron grip of the American activists and America haters powerful Teachers Unions.
It was in the late 1960s when President Johnson first established a bond with Israel. For a reason. Syrian pilots accidently landed a Russian jet in Israel. A Jet fighter with the most advanced technology, beyond anything the US had at the time.
Since that time. Israel became "The Start-Up Nation" "The Genius of Israel".
Shows how Israel is responsible for over 45% of world top modern achievements, and Israel shares those triumphs with America. Science, technology, medicine, military innovations. America benefits from Israeli progress. Israel has to start charging for everything they are developing.
American education is strangled by bureaucracy, administration increased by 700%, while students by 92%, teachers by 250%.
We are not producing minds who can compete in the ever complex world. Israel does.
"American education is in a race to the bottom with the iron grip of the American activists and America haters powerful Teachers Unions."
You must have written that in 1971 - maybe you live in NY, CA or IL but the rest of us don't.
Here's what is really happening - The Wall Street Journal on 02/12/2026 - Kimberly Strassel:
"Teachers Unions Get Desperate"
"If at first (and in many ways) you don’t succeed, sue, sue again. That’s the scorched-earth strategy animating opponents of the school-choice revolution sweeping the country. It’s about all they’ve got left. The question now is how many elected Democrats the teachers unions take down with them.
After decades of swaggering political power, of lording it over parents and legislatures, the education monopoly overplayed its hand during Covid, and the losses are piling up. The biggest government reform story in recent years has been the explosive growth of school choice. Some 34 states now offer vouchers, scholarships or savings accounts, 19 of which have universal choice programs. At the federal level, Donald Trump’s administration is breaking the stranglehold the unions held over the Education Department money box, while a new federal tax-credit scholarship program will further fuel the choice movement. Unions are losing their grip over local school boards. And the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. Afscme (2018), which allowed teachers to opt out of unions, is producing steadily declining membership and fewer dues.
Worse yet for the union bosses, they have lost the voting public, and with it their cast-iron control over the Democratic Party. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis recently announced he’ll opt his state into the new federal tax-credit scholarship program. That followed a surrender by North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein, who loudly vetoed a GOP bill requiring the state to join the program, only to say quietly he intends to opt in anyway. Can you blame them? School choice is growing more politically powerful and popular by the day. Both men fear voter blowback from denying parents donor-provided scholarship money for choice programs they love.
NO ONE in my family has ever set foot in a Government School from my grandparents to my grand children.
Eyes wide open. Across the country, parents are increasingly powerless. Institutional actions are impacting parental rights while poisoning the educational environment. School activism is forcing kids into the streets, into Anti-ICE protests, into pro-Hamas rallies, and violating the laws of minors without consent of parents.
The eternal optimist, I see.
I'm thinking we are past peak Public School/Teachers Unions crap. I detest them as much or more than you.
With a defense budget of €46 billion, Israel is therefore better equipped to build a credible deterrent than the EU, with a military budget of €380 billion. This demonstrates once again that fighting for self-preservation is the best motivation for overcoming political divisions. Another source of military innovation, incidentally, is Ukraine. As for Europe, that's where it's happening. It would be good, where dependence on the increasingly arbitrary US threatens both sides, to consider greater cooperation. Europe is also pursuing a policy of risk-sharing.
Trump proved something simple but powerful: when Israel is under fire, America stands shoulder to shoulder. No hemming, no “daylight,” no moral lectures mid-battle. That clarity restores deterrence. By contrast, the Obama-Biden years showed how globalist politics can dilute alliances—conditional aid, public pressure campaigns, and bureaucratic second-guessing that signal hesitation to enemies. Strategic friendship requires more than rhetoric; it demands reliability. And yes, modern warfare isn’t just rockets and armor—it’s narrative warfare. Disinformation networks, lawfare campaigns, and diplomatic sabotage shape battlefields before a shot is fired. Neutralizing hostile propaganda ecosystems is part of national defense. Steel wins wars; clarity and loyalty prevent them.
Go Israel 🇮🇱!!
Good! Now, aside from being far less dependent Israel should: 1) stop trying to fight nice wars; 2) immediately destroy the enemy's ability to communicate. I don't know how you do this or how difficult it may be, but seems to me the should be a priority. "The humanitarian toll in Gaza, which Hamas’ propaganda amplified and distorted, became a cudgel in foreign capitals"
There’s no reason for an unarmed populace especially after what happened to the kibbutzim on October 7th!
There isn't but Israel still has a strong Left Wing and they block every attempt for it's Jews to be armed - stuck on stupid just like the Democrats in the US.