Israel, the only country to receive their F-35 for free and the only country allowed to modify the F-35, readies its own F-35 variant for the purpose of prolonging the war in Syria.
Israel prepares to release new aircraft to combat Hezbollah
You are partially correct. The US give Israel 3.15B each year. That's about 30 F-35s, give or take. The problem has been, Israel has been a limiting factor in the Mid East for years. Right now, there are only 2 countries that want to wipe Israel from the face of the earth and that is Iran and Syria. It used to almost all of them. But the others have figured out that Israel is much less of a threat to them than Iran and Syria poses. Israel has been getting by with our and others contributions since they really haven't had much of natural resources. But recently, there was a huge discovery of oil fields making Israel a rich country.
All countries that receive the F-35 have to do some "Rolling Yer Own" for mods on the F-35. You honestly believe that the US is going to send and export F-35 with all the bells and whistles? It doesn't work that way. Israel just happens to be one of the few countries that have the capability to do a decent roll yer own job.
Right now, both Iran and Syria are supporting Hamas and Hezbolla who are just a bit busy right now. Otherwise, they would be attacking Israel like they always do. The scary part of all this is, with the military support both have received, the next time they attack they will be better equipped. Israel will have to fire it up on all cylinders. And you can pretty well kiss Hamas and Hezbella's ass goodbye at that point. Sooner or later, Israel will have to invade Syria just to prevent the support of these two terrorist groups.
38 billion go to Israel in 10 years, mainly in form of F-35. Your tax money. Of course, the aggressors are always the others. Truly peaceful Zionist regime never started a war. However, the Syrian war is a good example, why airstrikes are ineffective against an guerrilla enemy. You can have even the best aircraft and you still need capable ground troops. After 6 years of fighting heavily supported terrorist armies, the Syrian army and Hezbollah are certainly the most capable forces in the ME. Any attempt by Israel to go for SAA and Hezbollah will result in failures. Israel should now end the occupation of Syrian and Lebanese soil.
Here is how Israel tries to wipe Syria off the face of the earth:
"He then proceeds to analyze the weaknesses of Arab countries, by citing what he perceives to be flaws in their national and social structures, concluding that Israel should aim to bring about the fragmentation of the Arab world into a mosaic of ethnic and confessional groupings. 'Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation,' he argued, would prove to be advantageous to Israel in the short term. He saw contemporary events in Lebanon as a foreshadowing of future developments overall throughout the Arab world. The upheavals would create a precedent for guiding Israeli short-term and long-term strategies. Specifically, he asserted that the immediate aim of policy should be the dissolution of the military capabilities of Arab states east of Israel, while the primary long-term goal should work towards the formation of unique areas defined in terms of ethnonational and religious identities."
Yinon Plan - Wikipedia
"Israel has since the onset of the war on Syria in 2011 used both the occupied Golan and the Sheeba Farms area to provide logistical, tactical and direct military support for the Muslim Brotherhood linked Free Syrian Army as well as Jabhat al-Nusrah and other Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist / mercenary brigades.
In October 2013 the Israeli occupied Golan and Sheeba Farms were used to infiltrate some 40,000 Jabhat al-Nusrah and Liwa-al-Islam fighters / mercenaries into Lebanon and the opening of a new, major battlefront in the Qalamoun region at the Lebanese – Syrian border."
Hezbollah & Israel clash over Israeli occupied Sheeba Farms