"...Well I don't, my SCREAMING TARGET is the ZIONISTS,THOSE TERRIBLE TERRORISTS but really they are only 5 Million odd, SMALL FRY by Worlds Standards"
That's OK...
Israel has kicked the asses of each and every one of their neighbors who were foolish enough to try them in the past 66 years... so, even as small-fry, they are the biggest bad-ass on the block, in those parts... sufficient for their purposes.
Oh, and, speaking of small-fry...
How does the Israeli Defense Force stack up against the Australian Defence Force?
Australian Defence Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israel Defense Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How many Main Battle Tanks do the Australians design and manufacture and deploy on their own, as native products?
How many Combat Aircraft types do the Australians design and manufacture and deploy on their own, as native products?
How many types of Cruise Missiles and SAMs and ballistic missiles do the Australians design and manufacture and deploy on their own, as native products?
How many mainstream, world-class Small Arms types (assault rifles, machine guns, etc.) do the Australians design and manufacture and deploy on their own, as native products?
The Israeli 'small fry' seem to have the edge on Australia in that regard, as well...
Military equipment of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conceding, in advance, that Australian fighting men have come in pretty damned handy and been pretty damned tough and done excellent service around the world during the life of their nation to date, so as to avoid doing them a disservice or appearing ungrateful for various good help that Australia has given the UK and the US over the decades...
Frankly, if, by some freakish chance, Australia ever decided to attack Israel, you would probably get your teeth kicked in, at least during the early to middle going, until a couple of years had gone by, and you could bring your much larger population to bear upon the subject. Based upon my own light-to-middleweight reading on the subject, I'd say you (Australia) would have to spend a great deal of time and money to catch-up to the Israelis, in order to attain the same Small Fry status that you attribute to them, in a military strength and firepower context. Hell, you don't even operate aircraft carriers for forward defense any longer.
From what I can tell, the Jews of Israel take the issue of Military Self-Reliance far more seriously than do the Australians, who seem content to squeak-by with just enough firepower to fight a defensive action for Australia, until the US and the UK can come to their aid. Nature has favored them with an island continent in a (in recent decades) lower-risk part of the world that allows them to adopt such a laid-back approach.
Israel, on the other hand, needs enough firepower to actually WIN an engagement rather than just hold on until help arrives. And, they need to be as self-reliant as practicable, to compensate for fickle outside opinion and alliances and friendships. Every year, they become more and more self-sufficient and self-reliant in such matters, whereas the Australians simply buy halfway decent stuff from the outside and sit behind their metaphorical island wall and play a passive defensive game.
There are small fry, and then there are small fry, I guess.