Peter Webb
See below for quote of "4th largest military".. But with regard to where the real power of Israel Military-Intelligence resides see this article on Islicon Valley. (Israel Silicon Valley)
And also with regard to how globally dominant and militarily tactical Israel intelligence is in IT is see this article by Christopher Bollyn of American Free Press:
---------------------------- 4TH LARGEST MILITARY I'm sure their secret WMDs program doesn't appear on the Military budget? Israel also gets 8 billion a year from US, much of which comes as military aid, such as those 100,000 special deliberately unexploding cluster plants they got in the last three days before the cease-fire.
"U.S. support for Israel appears boundless. As the U.S. Campaign Against Israeli Occupation points out at www.endtheoccupation.org, "each year Israel--the 17th largest economy in the world with the world's 4th largest military--receives approximately $3 billion per year from U.S. taxpayers. In April 2003, Congress authorized an additional $9 billion in loan guarantees to Israel. Israel stands in violation of at least 43 United Nations resolutions, and has been protected from many more by the U.S. veto on the Security Council."
Phyllis Bennis is author of Before and After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the September 11 Crisis and a fellow at the Insbreastute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C."
