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The Israel Air Force is crafting a recommendation to increase production of bombs, missiles and other ammunition at home, in an attempt to reduce its dependence on other countries, especially the United States, a senior air force officer says.

The air force’s stance echoes one by Israel in 1967. After the Six-Day War, French President Charles de Gaulle imposed an arms embargo on Israel, which included tanks, missile boats and Mirage jets.

Israel then switched over its dependence on a foreign power to the United States, which provides the air force with all of its fighter planes and some of its bombs, missiles and intelligence equipment – on top of the development of joint weapons systems for all three layers of air defense.

The senior air force official told Haaretz that without the Americans’ supply of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, especially the air force, Israel would have had a hard time sustaining its war for more than a few months.

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[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 21 points 2 months ago

Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 months ago

The map doesn't include Iran or Turkiye.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 2 months ago

Is bread a processed food? It doesn't grow on trees. Bread can also be a staple food.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 months ago

Brought to you by the only* democracy in the Middle East. If Israel is truly a democracy doesn't mean the people voted for genocide?

* not actually true

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 22 points 3 months ago

I thought this was going to be about the Linux distro

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 14 points 3 months ago

She wasn't right about a lot of things, specially relating to the Middle East. Misguided at best, malicious at worst when it comes to the Middle East.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 3 months ago

No one minds you voting for Biden believe it or not. We do mind being demonized and straw-personed for not voting for him.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 10 points 3 months ago

An economic system and religion I can get behind

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 months ago

True. Blaming the genocide on Joe Biden misses the point that the genocide will be happening no matter who is president.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 21 points 3 months ago

In Sharia law the woman has precedence over the fetus. So it is not less religiously radical, is just that when it comes to abortion [and divorce] Islam is not as anti-woman as Christianity.

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The UAE here is actually catching up with other Middle Eastern countries:

Haaretz May 26, 2019: Alabama, Iran, or Saudi Arabia? We Checked Where Abortion Laws Are Better for Women.

Sherine Hamdy, a professor of Muslim bioethics at the University of California, Irvine, notes that for Muslim women, the U.S. anti-abortion trends are worrying not only because they harm women’s rights to reproductive agency, but also because they diminish religious freedoms, since Muslim religious ethics make a strong case for women’s well-being taking priority over that of the fetus. [emphasis mine]

The Center for American Progress JUL 8, 2022: Authoritarian Regimes Have More Progressive Abortion Policies Than Some U.S. States.

This means that Americans in states that effectively outlaw abortion, including Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, will have fewer human rights protections than those in Iran or Saudi Arabia—countries that are often vilified by politicians across the ideological spectrum for their treatment of women. Iran, for example, allows abortion in cases of fetal impairment, and Saudi Arabia allows for abortion when the health of a patient is at risk—including mental health, which can function to allow for abortion in cases of rape or incest—contrary to only the narrow “life” or “medical emergency” exceptions that are now increasingly common in state bans in the United States. [emphasis mine]

[-] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Women have more rights now in UAE than US?

Not just in the UAE :)

Alabama, Iran, or Saudi Arabia? We Checked Where Abortion Laws Are Better for Women. FYI, Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper.

Authoritarian Regimes Have More Progressive Abortion Policies Than Some U.S. States. FYI, The Center for American Progress is an independent, nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action.

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