Israel Attacks Egypt In 1973

In the 1973 Yon Kippur War the Zionists were getting their asses kicked.

Golda Meier

The Arabs were about to retake the stolen Sinai, and possibly retake all their stolen lands, when Zionists threatened Nixon with thier 'Sampson Option'. They pulled out their US supplied nukes and threatened to wipe out the middle east, and even hit America.

Nixon sent US pilots and Phantoms in 1973

Nixon airlifted F-4 Phantoms, and pilots, to the Israel. - The Arabs said "Oil is now $ 35 a barrel".


 

The Arabs Were Enraged

The war was over recovering the Egyptian Sinai, which the Zionists invaded in their 1967 sneak attack.

The cost of Israel

The USA uses 20 million barrels of oil a day, and our backing of the 1973 Jewish war resulted in a increase to $ 25 a barrel.
 

Since the early 1990s, dozens of U.S. aircraft and some allied forces also have patrolled no-fly zones over Iraq to keep Saddam from attacking his opponents. The cost wasn't in the budget until 1996, so taxpayers were getting an extra annual bill as Congress approved supplemental funding. The no-fly patrol budget for fiscal year 1999 is $850 million.

Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution, said many of America's military resources aimed at the Gulf could be used elsewhere if Saddam wasn't among top U.S. foes.

"That's not to say that if the Persian Gulf fell off the Earth or became peaceful we wouldn't be spending $50 billion," O'Hanlon said. "Some would argue we'd be spending the money on military training and operations anyway somewhere else. But we would probably save half that."