Excellent article. One point that’s often missed about the roughly $3.8 billion the U.S. gives Israel is that it isn’t typical foreign aid. Most of it must be spent in the United States on American defense companies — aircraft, missile systems, and other military equipment — so it supports American industry as much as it supports Israel.
That’s why the constant fixation on this aid always strikes me as selective. Critics rarely show the same outrage over far larger sums sent elsewhere, including money that ends up supporting deeply questionable policies in places like the Palestinian Authority.
I also think Netanyahu is right that Israel ultimately shouldn’t rely on any one administration in Washington. Governments change, and strong allies should aim for self-reliance.
And on a broader geopolitical note, if Washington is thinking strategically about alliances, it would be wise to strengthen ties with rising democracies like India rather than continuing to indulge unreliable actors like Pakistan.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment and for reading. I really appreciate it!
You're exactly right: that roughly $3.8 billion isn't typical foreign aid. Most of it has to be spent here in the United States on American defense companies, aircraft, missile systems, and other military equipment. It directly supports U.S. jobs and industry while strengthening Israel's security. The outrage over this aid often feels selective when you compare it to much larger sums sent elsewhere with far less accountability.
Netanyahu is spot on that Israel should work toward greater self-reliance. Strong allies build independence rather than remaining overly dependent, especially with U.S. administrations changing every few years.
And strategically, Washington would be wise to deepen ties with rising democracies like India instead of continuing to prop up unreliable partners.
If this perspective on U.S.-Israel alliance, strategic self-reliance, and smart geopolitical choices resonates, I've got several more pieces along those lines on the Substack, digging deeper into security, power dynamics, and real alliances. Feel free to check them out: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/
Great to hear from readers who see these issues clearly. Thanks again! 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Eric, my pleasure. I’ve subscribed to your Substack and look forward to reading more.
I’ve also recently started writing under the name Frederick Tatala, sharing similar thoughts on geopolitics and current events. It would be great to have you on board as well if you’re interested:
Thanks so much, Frederick. That means a lot! I've just subscribed to your Substack too and look forward to reading your takes on geopolitics and current events. Always great to connect with fellow writers who cut through the noise on these issues. I'll dive into your pieces soon, and thanks for the invite. Happy to support clear thinkers like you. 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Kelleigh, thanks for the kind words and for reading. It's great to hear from folks who cut through the noise and see the real mutual benefits of the U.S.-Israel alliance!
If this clear take on smart security partnerships resonates, check out more pieces on the Substack diving deeper into these issues: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/ 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Absolutely. Without Israel, we wouldn't have the knowledge regarding our war planes, our military equipment, our medical inventions, our intelligence would be sorely lacking, and on and on and on. What we give Israel is miniscule compared to what they do for us. Few people in politics understand the exchange is truly one way, from Israel to us. Unfortunately, our education is funded first by Qatar and secondly by China. So, Jihadists and Communists brainwash our children's minds....is it any wonder they're protesting for the barbaric savages of GAZA?!
Our world is straight-up manipulated, preying on the weak-minded and especially our youth. You're right about the foreign money flooding colleges and fueling these protests. I broke it down in "The Trojan Horse: How America's Education System Was Co-Opted by Foreign Money." Link: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/the-trojan-horse-how-americas-education
That's exactly why students are out there protesting Gaza in ways that mirror those influences. I also wrote about how social psychologists figured out the tools to shape young minds during those wide-open windows in brain development. Check it: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/the-windows-when-your-mind-opens
Adolescence hits like a wrecking ball. The brain tears down old wiring and rebuilds in huge lurches, leaving kids starving for belonging, purpose, and identity. Add social media algorithms that push extreme stuff for max engagement, plus campus narratives funded by big foreign cash, and you can radicalize them quick. We're literally paying to weaponize our own education system against our children. It's lopsided as hell.
If you're done with the indoctrination game, read both pieces and check out the many other essays on my page. They all connect the dots on what's happening right now in our world.
Spreading it around...good stuff, and very appreciated. I only use substack for restacking. I don't have time to figure out how to use it and I write for several websites now anyway.
I know, I've written about the same things Eric! I've been at it for 65 years. I was a Goldwater girl with none other than Hillary Rodham in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1964. She was a year behind me in high school. Her class called her "Sister Frigidaire" because she had such a cold personality.
It happens every time. Every time I read an article here, more of the mishegoss in my head regarding the Middle East gets cleared away and the light shines through. So much fake garbage, i can’t castigate myself for getting confused. Great article, crystal-clear thinking, superb writing.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Leslie. I'm truly grateful this helped clear away some of the confusion and shine a light on the real dynamics of the U.S.-Israel alliance!
If this straightforward take on mutual security benefits and cutting through Middle East misinformation resonates, I've got more pieces like it on the Substack. Feel free to check them out: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/
Appreciate you reading and sharing your thoughts! 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Just the facts. Thanks. Cannot look at a number like 4 billion without asking the total lost to fraud and waste and govt incompetence and unneeded employees. And remember and never forget the name of every politician, journalist, and podcaster ( and their voters and APOLOGISTS) who DEMAND that the waste and fraud not even be investigated.
Thanks for the information. Ask 10,000 diaspora Jews whether they knew any of this (you know, the kind of basic facts that could actually push back on the nonsense we get blamed for—everything from global politics to gas prices), maybe three would have a clue. And worse, only the same three would even care.
And let’s be real—virtually none of them even know this site, or anything like it, exists.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Sam. It's honestly saddening how spot on you are. Most in the diaspora seem disconnected from these basic realities that could actually counter the endless blame and misinformation thrown our way, and even fewer seem motivated to engage or learn more. It's a tough reality to face.
If you're interested in digging deeper into how American Jews have been increasingly co-opted into progressive narratives that often work against our own interests and Israel's security, I wrote about exactly that here: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/american-jews-and-the-progressive
My "Jewish" friends disgust me. So does American Jewish Leadership, and mainstream establishment Jewish organizations that have, for a generation, failed and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent Jews in America today. We are assailed by Jew hatred, from the right and left, caught in the web of so many conspiracy and intersectionality theories. Very consistently the toadies appointed by super-moneyed donors to organizations align themselves with the un-Jewish and un-American politics of the left grievance cults. It benefits them personally and socially to hobnob with the political- media- academic- entertainment doyens who are themselves in thrall to destructive ideologies and demagogues.
I live in one of the top 10 jewish population centers in the US. I support the vision of Zionism promoted by Meir Kahane and I am all alone in my Conservative shul, JCC and community.
I think Israel needs America to maintain Her Air superiority. Do not forget this. This has been amply demonstrated, since last summer’s strike on Iran and the current Iran conflict. Please also do not dismiss Europe’s absolute dependence too on America and Israel. The violent and fissiparous Middle East is adjacent to Europe, which would have been totally within range of Iran’s ICBM’s which Iran was developing. America and Israel stopped all of this, and has thus secured Europe far into the future.
In the present war the Wall Street Journal just wrote about this 10 days ago:
"Khamenei Cemented the U.S.-Israel Alliance"
He wanted to destroy the Jewish state and drive America out of the region. How did that work out?
By Yaakov Katz and Gil Troy
March 11, 2026 12:27 pm ET
"Today, the operations are completely merged. American and Israeli F-15s and F-35s are flying almost side-by-side simultaneous strike packages, guided by shared intelligence. They share the same refueling tracks; hundreds of Israeli sorties have already been fueled by U.S. Air Force tankers.
The integration is most visible in the joint command centers in Tel Aviv and at Israeli air force bases. There, U.S. personnel from Central Command sit across from their Israeli counterparts and strategize. The division of labor is precise: The U.S. focuses on the ballistic and drone threats to its regional bases and on the Iranian navy, which has mostly been destroyed. Meanwhile, Israel is targeting regime institutions in Tehran and neutralizing threats to the Israeli home front. Both target nuclear infrastructure. Senior Israel Defense Forces officers call this Israel’s first war in English. The IDF has even adopted Greenwich Mean Time, which the U.S. military uses."
Israel and America are operating as one Air Force. It is total cooridination. Same goals, same planes, same command - all in English. Israel has never done this before, but then again neither has the United States. It's beautiful to watch.
This is a total crock ! What we have spent in defense ( hah) aid to Israel was because we were in at the inception, the Arabs went beserk when Israel was established and have paid for it in spades but the big shift here was the wooing of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates by American administrations to the detriment of Israel.israel has no oil so it does not figure in any energy negotiations which are of prime importance to Trump. Check Venezuela. What Israel did not figure on was how erratic and incompetent Trump is altho he does like Bibi. A country as big as New Jersey with no oil just is useful only as a place Jesus will return to if he chooses.
What the author writes regarding the advantages to the US of its alliance with Israel is correct. But I would like to hear what he thinks would happen to Israel at the international institutions, first and foremost the UNSC, absent the US veto.
Without the US veto, Israel would face a nonstop barrage of binding hostile resolutions at the UN Security Council. That place is basically a relic from the post-WWII order, still run by the same five permanent members who won the war, with power structures that haven’t evolved since the League of Nations days. The Rockefellers even donated the land for UN headquarters to keep it anchored in New York, so the elite influence is baked in from the start.
It’s become this deeply political, outdated institution where raw voting blocs, backroom deals, and transnational interests call the shots more than truth or justice. The US has blocked dozens of anti-Israel measures over the years to prevent sanctions, embargoes, or forced withdrawals that the automatic hostile majority would ram through otherwise. Sure, some other permanent or rotating members like India or the UK will occasionally vote with Israel when it aligns with their own strategic needs against common threats, but it’s always convenience, never principle.
That’s precisely why the alliance is so mutual and why Israel has to keep pushing for real independence. Can’t rely on an institution that’s this broken and elite-captured for fair treatment. And maybe that’s the deeper truth: Israel has always seen through this geopolitical manipulation by transnational elites from the very beginning. That clear-eyed realism is exactly why the country persevered so fiercely and built itself into a technologically advanced, militarily self-reliant power in record time. Now other nations increasingly depend on Israeli intelligence, innovation, and defense capabilities, flipping the script on who really needs whom in this broken global order.
That doesn't answer the question of what would happen if Israel faced "a nonstop barrage of binding hostile resolutions at the UN Security Council", resolutions with direct real-world implications, unlike the UNGA resolutions. Israel still depends more on the world than the world does on Israel, in spite of all its technological prowess.
Binding resolutions sting only when the target is truly isolated. Israel spent decades making sure it never would be, not by begging for protection but by engineering dependencies others now can't afford to unwind. The same governments that would grandstand at the UNSC are quietly lining up for Israeli cyber tools, missile defense, and intelligence systems because their own security margins depend on it. You don't sanction the supplier your enemies would love to see you cut off.
You concede the technological prowess yourself, which is precisely where your argument collapses. That prowess isn't decorative, it's the mechanism by which the dependency you describe has already been quietly reversed in the domains that actually matter. Israel is the weaker party in your framing right up until you ask who needs whom when the lights go out and the threats go live. You already know this.
I don't "know" this. I would like it to be true, yes ... just hope it isn't wishful thinking. Too often people and countries will act against their self-interest for the sake of ideology. And not only the usual suspects. Western countries, that Israel depends on, aren't immune to this at all. The resurgent antisemitism being repackaged as antizionism will drive the politics of most Western countries in the years ahead, no matter what behind-the-scene dependencies on Israel they developed.
So I don't believe that Israel will disappear once US political support evaporates, which seems inevitable. But there will be rough seas ahead.
A timely warning Mr Hacker. But in fact Israel will always be a Middle-ranking power which America wants to do business with. The relationship even under these circumstances will be thoroughly transactional. Israel will always be able to pay Her way in such a world. Expansionist Sunni Islam will always be a threat to The West.
Excellent article. One point that’s often missed about the roughly $3.8 billion the U.S. gives Israel is that it isn’t typical foreign aid. Most of it must be spent in the United States on American defense companies — aircraft, missile systems, and other military equipment — so it supports American industry as much as it supports Israel.
That’s why the constant fixation on this aid always strikes me as selective. Critics rarely show the same outrage over far larger sums sent elsewhere, including money that ends up supporting deeply questionable policies in places like the Palestinian Authority.
I also think Netanyahu is right that Israel ultimately shouldn’t rely on any one administration in Washington. Governments change, and strong allies should aim for self-reliance.
And on a broader geopolitical note, if Washington is thinking strategically about alliances, it would be wise to strengthen ties with rising democracies like India rather than continuing to indulge unreliable actors like Pakistan.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment and for reading. I really appreciate it!
You're exactly right: that roughly $3.8 billion isn't typical foreign aid. Most of it has to be spent here in the United States on American defense companies, aircraft, missile systems, and other military equipment. It directly supports U.S. jobs and industry while strengthening Israel's security. The outrage over this aid often feels selective when you compare it to much larger sums sent elsewhere with far less accountability.
Netanyahu is spot on that Israel should work toward greater self-reliance. Strong allies build independence rather than remaining overly dependent, especially with U.S. administrations changing every few years.
And strategically, Washington would be wise to deepen ties with rising democracies like India instead of continuing to prop up unreliable partners.
If this perspective on U.S.-Israel alliance, strategic self-reliance, and smart geopolitical choices resonates, I've got several more pieces along those lines on the Substack, digging deeper into security, power dynamics, and real alliances. Feel free to check them out: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/
Great to hear from readers who see these issues clearly. Thanks again! 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Eric, my pleasure. I’ve subscribed to your Substack and look forward to reading more.
I’ve also recently started writing under the name Frederick Tatala, sharing similar thoughts on geopolitics and current events. It would be great to have you on board as well if you’re interested:
https://fredericktatala.substack.com
Thanks so much, Frederick. That means a lot! I've just subscribed to your Substack too and look forward to reading your takes on geopolitics and current events. Always great to connect with fellow writers who cut through the noise on these issues. I'll dive into your pieces soon, and thanks for the invite. Happy to support clear thinkers like you. 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Best,
Eric
Superb article and spot on. Thank you for taking the time to explain this to the dolts who will never seek the truth.
Kelleigh, thanks for the kind words and for reading. It's great to hear from folks who cut through the noise and see the real mutual benefits of the U.S.-Israel alliance!
If this clear take on smart security partnerships resonates, check out more pieces on the Substack diving deeper into these issues: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/ 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Absolutely. Without Israel, we wouldn't have the knowledge regarding our war planes, our military equipment, our medical inventions, our intelligence would be sorely lacking, and on and on and on. What we give Israel is miniscule compared to what they do for us. Few people in politics understand the exchange is truly one way, from Israel to us. Unfortunately, our education is funded first by Qatar and secondly by China. So, Jihadists and Communists brainwash our children's minds....is it any wonder they're protesting for the barbaric savages of GAZA?!
Our world is straight-up manipulated, preying on the weak-minded and especially our youth. You're right about the foreign money flooding colleges and fueling these protests. I broke it down in "The Trojan Horse: How America's Education System Was Co-Opted by Foreign Money." Link: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/the-trojan-horse-how-americas-education
That's exactly why students are out there protesting Gaza in ways that mirror those influences. I also wrote about how social psychologists figured out the tools to shape young minds during those wide-open windows in brain development. Check it: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/the-windows-when-your-mind-opens
Adolescence hits like a wrecking ball. The brain tears down old wiring and rebuilds in huge lurches, leaving kids starving for belonging, purpose, and identity. Add social media algorithms that push extreme stuff for max engagement, plus campus narratives funded by big foreign cash, and you can radicalize them quick. We're literally paying to weaponize our own education system against our children. It's lopsided as hell.
If you're done with the indoctrination game, read both pieces and check out the many other essays on my page. They all connect the dots on what's happening right now in our world.
Spreading it around...good stuff, and very appreciated. I only use substack for restacking. I don't have time to figure out how to use it and I write for several websites now anyway.
Excellent work Eric, sending wide to my ed folks and others. Now I'll read the second one.
I know, I've written about the same things Eric! I've been at it for 65 years. I was a Goldwater girl with none other than Hillary Rodham in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1964. She was a year behind me in high school. Her class called her "Sister Frigidaire" because she had such a cold personality.
It happens every time. Every time I read an article here, more of the mishegoss in my head regarding the Middle East gets cleared away and the light shines through. So much fake garbage, i can’t castigate myself for getting confused. Great article, crystal-clear thinking, superb writing.
Thanks so much for the kind words, Leslie. I'm truly grateful this helped clear away some of the confusion and shine a light on the real dynamics of the U.S.-Israel alliance!
If this straightforward take on mutual security benefits and cutting through Middle East misinformation resonates, I've got more pieces like it on the Substack. Feel free to check them out: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/
Appreciate you reading and sharing your thoughts! 🇺🇸🇮🇱
Eric: I will definitely read more of what you have to say! I badly need Jewish words of sanity right now.✡️
"Most Americans don’t realize how much they need Israel."
Most Americans couldn't find Israel on a map.
Just the facts. Thanks. Cannot look at a number like 4 billion without asking the total lost to fraud and waste and govt incompetence and unneeded employees. And remember and never forget the name of every politician, journalist, and podcaster ( and their voters and APOLOGISTS) who DEMAND that the waste and fraud not even be investigated.
Thanks for the information. Ask 10,000 diaspora Jews whether they knew any of this (you know, the kind of basic facts that could actually push back on the nonsense we get blamed for—everything from global politics to gas prices), maybe three would have a clue. And worse, only the same three would even care.
And let’s be real—virtually none of them even know this site, or anything like it, exists.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment, Sam. It's honestly saddening how spot on you are. Most in the diaspora seem disconnected from these basic realities that could actually counter the endless blame and misinformation thrown our way, and even fewer seem motivated to engage or learn more. It's a tough reality to face.
If you're interested in digging deeper into how American Jews have been increasingly co-opted into progressive narratives that often work against our own interests and Israel's security, I wrote about exactly that here: https://sleuthfox.substack.com/p/american-jews-and-the-progressive
My "Jewish" friends disgust me. So does American Jewish Leadership, and mainstream establishment Jewish organizations that have, for a generation, failed and are doubling down on their patronizing refusal to represent Jews in America today. We are assailed by Jew hatred, from the right and left, caught in the web of so many conspiracy and intersectionality theories. Very consistently the toadies appointed by super-moneyed donors to organizations align themselves with the un-Jewish and un-American politics of the left grievance cults. It benefits them personally and socially to hobnob with the political- media- academic- entertainment doyens who are themselves in thrall to destructive ideologies and demagogues.
I live in one of the top 10 jewish population centers in the US. I support the vision of Zionism promoted by Meir Kahane and I am all alone in my Conservative shul, JCC and community.
I think Israel needs America to maintain Her Air superiority. Do not forget this. This has been amply demonstrated, since last summer’s strike on Iran and the current Iran conflict. Please also do not dismiss Europe’s absolute dependence too on America and Israel. The violent and fissiparous Middle East is adjacent to Europe, which would have been totally within range of Iran’s ICBM’s which Iran was developing. America and Israel stopped all of this, and has thus secured Europe far into the future.
In the present war the Wall Street Journal just wrote about this 10 days ago:
"Khamenei Cemented the U.S.-Israel Alliance"
He wanted to destroy the Jewish state and drive America out of the region. How did that work out?
By Yaakov Katz and Gil Troy
March 11, 2026 12:27 pm ET
"Today, the operations are completely merged. American and Israeli F-15s and F-35s are flying almost side-by-side simultaneous strike packages, guided by shared intelligence. They share the same refueling tracks; hundreds of Israeli sorties have already been fueled by U.S. Air Force tankers.
The integration is most visible in the joint command centers in Tel Aviv and at Israeli air force bases. There, U.S. personnel from Central Command sit across from their Israeli counterparts and strategize. The division of labor is precise: The U.S. focuses on the ballistic and drone threats to its regional bases and on the Iranian navy, which has mostly been destroyed. Meanwhile, Israel is targeting regime institutions in Tehran and neutralizing threats to the Israeli home front. Both target nuclear infrastructure. Senior Israel Defense Forces officers call this Israel’s first war in English. The IDF has even adopted Greenwich Mean Time, which the U.S. military uses."
Israel and America are operating as one Air Force. It is total cooridination. Same goals, same planes, same command - all in English. Israel has never done this before, but then again neither has the United States. It's beautiful to watch.
Thank you! Your good wishes are much much appreciated, Mr Galt. G-d Bless America.
No amount of logic is going to convince the haters. Great read.
The Jew-haters will never accept this reality.
This is a total crock ! What we have spent in defense ( hah) aid to Israel was because we were in at the inception, the Arabs went beserk when Israel was established and have paid for it in spades but the big shift here was the wooing of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates by American administrations to the detriment of Israel.israel has no oil so it does not figure in any energy negotiations which are of prime importance to Trump. Check Venezuela. What Israel did not figure on was how erratic and incompetent Trump is altho he does like Bibi. A country as big as New Jersey with no oil just is useful only as a place Jesus will return to if he chooses.
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1) Israel has (10) Offshore gas fields - 4 producing -and exports to Jordan and Egypt
2) Israel has the most shale oil reserves in the world: 40 billion to 250 billion barrels.
Very good article. Thank you so much for this!
What the author writes regarding the advantages to the US of its alliance with Israel is correct. But I would like to hear what he thinks would happen to Israel at the international institutions, first and foremost the UNSC, absent the US veto.
Without the US veto, Israel would face a nonstop barrage of binding hostile resolutions at the UN Security Council. That place is basically a relic from the post-WWII order, still run by the same five permanent members who won the war, with power structures that haven’t evolved since the League of Nations days. The Rockefellers even donated the land for UN headquarters to keep it anchored in New York, so the elite influence is baked in from the start.
It’s become this deeply political, outdated institution where raw voting blocs, backroom deals, and transnational interests call the shots more than truth or justice. The US has blocked dozens of anti-Israel measures over the years to prevent sanctions, embargoes, or forced withdrawals that the automatic hostile majority would ram through otherwise. Sure, some other permanent or rotating members like India or the UK will occasionally vote with Israel when it aligns with their own strategic needs against common threats, but it’s always convenience, never principle.
That’s precisely why the alliance is so mutual and why Israel has to keep pushing for real independence. Can’t rely on an institution that’s this broken and elite-captured for fair treatment. And maybe that’s the deeper truth: Israel has always seen through this geopolitical manipulation by transnational elites from the very beginning. That clear-eyed realism is exactly why the country persevered so fiercely and built itself into a technologically advanced, militarily self-reliant power in record time. Now other nations increasingly depend on Israeli intelligence, innovation, and defense capabilities, flipping the script on who really needs whom in this broken global order.
That doesn't answer the question of what would happen if Israel faced "a nonstop barrage of binding hostile resolutions at the UN Security Council", resolutions with direct real-world implications, unlike the UNGA resolutions. Israel still depends more on the world than the world does on Israel, in spite of all its technological prowess.
Binding resolutions sting only when the target is truly isolated. Israel spent decades making sure it never would be, not by begging for protection but by engineering dependencies others now can't afford to unwind. The same governments that would grandstand at the UNSC are quietly lining up for Israeli cyber tools, missile defense, and intelligence systems because their own security margins depend on it. You don't sanction the supplier your enemies would love to see you cut off.
You concede the technological prowess yourself, which is precisely where your argument collapses. That prowess isn't decorative, it's the mechanism by which the dependency you describe has already been quietly reversed in the domains that actually matter. Israel is the weaker party in your framing right up until you ask who needs whom when the lights go out and the threats go live. You already know this.
I don't "know" this. I would like it to be true, yes ... just hope it isn't wishful thinking. Too often people and countries will act against their self-interest for the sake of ideology. And not only the usual suspects. Western countries, that Israel depends on, aren't immune to this at all. The resurgent antisemitism being repackaged as antizionism will drive the politics of most Western countries in the years ahead, no matter what behind-the-scene dependencies on Israel they developed.
So I don't believe that Israel will disappear once US political support evaporates, which seems inevitable. But there will be rough seas ahead.
Israel knows that within 3 years, there may arise in America a Parish who knows not Joseph. When that happens, the end will be on the horizon.
A timely warning Mr Hacker. But in fact Israel will always be a Middle-ranking power which America wants to do business with. The relationship even under these circumstances will be thoroughly transactional. Israel will always be able to pay Her way in such a world. Expansionist Sunni Islam will always be a threat to The West.