There has been a quiet but devastating crises in US-Israeli relations over the last month, as the Pentagon continues to level enormous and damaging sanctions against Israel because of military sales to China. Few have mentioned that Israel wouldn't need to go to China in order to maintain a robust defense industry if the US wasn't simultaneously cutting off cooperation while arming Arab states to the teeth.
While the sanctions are crippling, I'm a little surprised to see people like Caroline Glick's unequivocally that Israel submit to the whims of the US given her general view that Israel need not listen to the gentile countries on security or anything else. I take it as a matter of fact not only that a strong Israel is good for the US and a strong US is good for Israel, but that Israel is the US's front line in the War on Terror and that the US is Israel's front line on the international legal stage. That said, Israel's very existence relies on its defense industry, and US administrations have not been bashful about cutting off military cooperation to leverage diplomatic demands (another reason it's so weird to see Glick unequivocally chastising the IDF). Regardless, the erosion of US-Israeli military ties in recent weeks has been almost unprecedented in its scope and severity, as the US cuts its nose to spite its face by weakening Israel.