It is always dangerous to rely on a protecting empire

It is always dangerous to rely on a protecting empire: Jews tried that with
Assyria, Rome, and Persia.
Fortunately, Israel need not rely on anyone: her arsenal of nuclear bombs, if
wielded wildly enough, would force everyone from Tehran to Washington to behave
in our region to our liking. No one would like the mad Jews to nuke the
oilfields, and no one can do anything to prevent us from doing so. To be mad is
easy and feasible: reduce the army to the level clearly insufficient for a
conventional war and pass a law which mandates automatic nuclear strike over the
enemy’s attack, mobilization, or nuclearization.

In terms of alliances, the American one is empty. Our earthly protector gives
Egypt and Palestine more aid than us, supplies Arabs more weapons than us, and
pushes us around diplomatically. Russia is better: it never pushed a client to
suicidal peace with its enemies. Russia, if aligned with Israel, would be
interested in our expansion rather than shrinking into the eight-mile-wide
borders. Being a normal rather than professedly moral state, Russia would want
its client to win rather than capitulate to the defeated enemies. Russia would
love to lure the proverbial American client and in a brink of eye establish
control over the Middle East.

Russia cannot give us as much aid as America in nominal dollar terms, but can
match it in purchasing power parity terms because Russian weapons cost three to
ten times lower than the comparable American systems; Russian weapons are not
perfect, but good enough against Arabs. More importantly, Russian military
support would be unwavering: the Soviet Union has been arming Egypt for years
and free before the US started meager deliveries to Israel at high prices.
During the Yom Kippur war, Russia launched airlift to Egypt on the day one and
brought nuclear missiles to its client’s defense, while the US Administration
procrastinated until Israel decided the war with available weapons.

Israel the American client invokes no fear because everyone knows that
Americans are slow to react. It’s totally different with Russia which has no
money to bribe its enemies and therefore choose to fight, sabotage, or otherwise
uproot them. Russia arouses the kind of raw-power respect among Arabs, and they
would not dream of attacking Israel a Russian associate. Palestinian and
Lebanese terrorists, Syria and Iran would suddenly become nice to Israel. It is
not nice to join thugs, but if you can’t beat ‘em… Maccabees were more
practical: they had no qualms switching from the progressive Syro-Grecians to
the relatively barbarous Roman thugs.

True, Russians are anti-Semitic, but so were the Romans and so are the
Americans. It was a joint Anglo-American-Russian decision to refuse ransoming a
million Jews from Germany. All the Allies refused announcing the ongoing
Holocaust during their radio broadcasts onto the occupied territories, so that
Jews may know and flee. America, Europe, and Russia condemned Israeli attack on
Osiraq. Jews have no friends, but our allies should better be mad.