Can Israel survive without the USA. You can ask that of the whole world and the answer is no. Without the USA the whole world dies a slow, dictator, tyrant ruled death.
Israel became a country without the USA's assistance so I am sure they can survive the short term without our help. Long term most likely not.
Netanyahu has stated in the past that Israel would be BETTER off without aid from the US----that aid comes with strings. ----- He might be right----but the real problem is that the US might not be better off. ------do we really want Israel selling technology to the highest bidder and keeping it from US??? Or do we really want to NOT be in a position to put constraints on Israel's actions in the Middle east? Netanyahu had more power now than he ever had before----to ----enact his own concepts.. I find him a bit flamboyant.
See what dumbass like Shogun and Huggy (who my be the stupidest fuck on this board) think is that US doesn't get anything from the aid they give to Israel, Egypt and Pakistani military! Here is what they do. US we will give you the military aid, however, all that aid money MUST be used on US private arms companies. The US relies on these "private" military companies to come up with innovative and revolutionary planes, bombs, guns, tanks, weapons systems in order to stay ahead of the Russian, Chinese, Indians etc. The US can't purchase ALL these weapons and bloat the military budget even more and they need the "private" US arms dealers to have numerous, willing and able buyers! Now if the government just gave these military establishment cash, the incentive of producing innovations and keeping the military edge goes way down. Free money not tied to rewards breeds laziness. Aka the reason communism is a failure. Take note comrade Huggy! So American creates willing and able buyers in Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq etc. The US military industry has buyers and incentive to stay innovative. The US military keeps it large and ever growing military edge on China and Russia, while keeping the budget down and not being stocked with too many military armaments that won't be used and will used as ammo for the leftist anti-military politicians!
Summary Benefits:
US - military edge, without bloating its military budget and increasing weapons surplus supplies. Can dictate that countries seek aid MUST buy American. The US also has great influence over these countries in many ways
US Military Companies - have willing and able buyers, but must keep the innovations up, because its not in essence free money
Israel, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq and other countries: Get most innovative weaponry, "free money," and a well stocked military.
Precursor: Huggy go fuck yourself; Shogun go fuck yourself also!