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Anonymous asked in TravelAfrica & Middle EastIsrael · 8 years ago

Could Israel survive without the west supports?

i have researched that israel takes like 6 billion dollars each year from the usa and billions more from the germans because the germans killed 6 million of them in ww2

would israel be able to survive if suddenly the germans and usa said we can't afford to keep giving u this money?

or does Israel have a powerful hold over these nations?

would israel be able to support its economy and military if the world folded its arms?

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  • John E
    Lv 6
    8 years ago
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    No, I wouldn't say so my friend. Not even for two weeks.

    The reason is that it is not 6 billion dollars. It is 70 billions.

    Three times the amount of the Greek default and twenty times that of Cyprus.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lCKyZgnuYc

    Right now I feel so bad about the thirteen million Americans that have been laid off because of all this "secret budget"

    Thank you for sharing

    Greetings

  • TNO
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Israel could probably survive.

    Most of the US aid is for defensive reasons, and actually is mostly pumped back into the US economy by buying American. So, cutting it out would be felt domestically in the defense market. Regardless, Israel has survived before this was ever made an option to them, and are trained to do so if it comes to that. The Israelis take nothing for granted, and have a history surviving on less.

    Concerning the Germans, that's aid only given to Holocaust survivors. So, it's not really going into Israel like that.

    Israel has a lot going for it. It does not depend on other nations to keep it's economy afloat, and the military budget does not depend on international support.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I have a couple of ex Israeli special forces friends who say Israel would have a very hard time with out U.S. money,logistical and hardware support

  • BMCR
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Have you done the research to find out how much of Israel's GDP the foreign aid is?

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    The 10 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in the Tamar gas field would probably help.

    The 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in the Leviathan gas field would help even more.

  • 8 years ago

    Ivanthe Terrible, Israel sure could, unlike Israels neighbors, their neighboring countries would revert to travel by camel, living in tents, a shower once a year, cleaning arses by letting the sheep go between their legs and so on, happy now??

  • 8 years ago

    No - Israel could not survive if the money pipeline from Western dupe nations was shut off.

    The ungrateful welfare bum entity you speak of probably swindles closer to $12 billion a year from us.

    We have to consider the protection the US provides the Apartheid regime in the UN and in the international community in general. If the US allowed the UN to carry out proper sanctions against the war crime perpetrator - that alone would stop the racial tyranny in its tracks.

  • Kevin7
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Israel will always survive.Israel is a good ally to the West and to all democratic countries

  • 8 years ago

    no the entire nations of the arabs will come at us at once but those in the gola will survive

  • How dare you expose the truths about the sister Israel?

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