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ISRAEL and US Prepare for
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100+ Special-for-Israel New U.S. Jet-Fighters

"The new F-16-I, named Sufah (Thunderstorm) in Hebrew, will...
[enable Israel for the first time] to reach nations such as Iran and
Libya.  It can fly a round trip of over 1,600 kilometers without refueling. 
The first of the jets will arrive in Israel next month... The plane is
different than the United States' F-16's...[so new that] no
Israeli or American pilots have yet flown them."

MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington -  14 November 2003:    The US-Israeli 'Strategic Alliance" formally, and publicly, actually began in the Reagan Years.  But there was close cooperation with the Israelis from the beginning with President Truman actually rushing to be the first nation to formally recognize Israel just moments after the declaration by Ben-Gurion in 1948.   Closer and closer military and 'strategic' coordination expanded practically with each  American Administration thereafter.  There were crucial secret CIA missions in the 50s and 60s, then the Nixon-Kissinger emergency 'airlift' and the beginnings of "Step-by-Step diplomacy", and then 'Camp David I' with Jimmy Carter desperately trying to get re-elected but actually bringing about Anwar Sadat's assassination and years of escalating bloodshed that eventually erupted into today's 'Clash of Civilizations'.  
    Now, with the US-Israeli Alliance both fueling and fueled by this very 'Clash of Civilizations' -- which of course in reality the Israelis worked overtime to provoke -- the two countries are now feverishly preparing still more military adventures and still more domination and subjugation for the Middle East.
    Military and 'intelligence' matters are of course a major aspect to this entire situation.  Already the Israeli military is reported to be at least 8 times as strong as all the Arab armies combined, and it is the only military in the region that possesses a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, including many tactical and strategtic nuclear bombs with multiple delivery systems.   Plus of course the Israelis know all along that they have the world's only superpower power at their side with access to nearly unlimited American support, materiel, intelligence information, and military technology whenever needed.
   And now, at a cost of nearly $5 billion (US-funded of course), the Israelis are beginning to take delivery of more than 100 of the very latest specially made F-16-I  jet fighters.    The US and Israel are in fact further stepping up their now 20-year old formal 'Strategic Alliance' using it to force all the Arab and regional countries into submission one way or another, most especially at the moment Syria and Iran...with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and any one else who dares defy the Empire's will or challenge Israeli regional hegemony and domination 'on notice'.       MIDDLEEAST.ORG


 ISRAEL RECEIVES STATE-OF-THE-ART FIGHTER JETS

It's a happy day for the Israel Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas.  The first of the IAF's new F-16-I fighter planes will roll off the Lockheed Martin assembly line this afternoon, overseen by an Israeli delegation led by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz. 

Israel has purchased 102 of the bomber jets, for a record $4.5 billion - paid for with U.S. military grants to Israel.  Israel and Egypt are the two biggest recipients of U.S. aid.  The Israeli defense establishment chose Lockheed over Boeing in 1999 to manufacture the new planes.  It was reported at the time, however, that the plane would not be fitted with Israel's advanced ELTA radar, as Israel had requested, but rather with lesser-quality American-made radar.
 
The new F-16-I, named Sufah (Thunderstorm) in Hebrew, will strengthen the IAF's long reach, enabling it to reach nations such as Iran and Libya.  It can fly a round trip of over 1,600 kilometers without refueling.  The first of the jets will arrive in Israel next month, and will be stationed - together with the families of the pilots and crews - in the Negev.  The plane is different than the United States' F-16's, and no Israeli or American pilots have yet flown them, although IAF pilots have practiced on a Sufah simulator.   Arutz-7, 14 Nov.





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