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How Israel became dependent on US military aid

“The Caroline Glick Show,” Ep. 125

The wars between Israel and Hamas in the south, and Hezbollah in the north (currently, a ceasefire has held), with the Biden administration’s slow-walking of crucial arms its ally, has reignited the debate on U.S. military aid to the Jewish state on both the right and the left.

Is it time to rethink Israel’s dependence on U.S. military aid? Can Israel be militarily and technologically independent? Has the relationship, in fact, always been this way since it’s not the first time this has happened?

To answer these questions, Caroline Glick sits down with Raphael BenLevi, director of the Churchill Program for Strategy, Statecraft and Security at the Argaman Institute, and an expert at the Misgav Institute.

Caroline B. Glick is the international affairs advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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