Letter To Hollywood About Our Country's History on Immigration

Nadene Goldfoot

Any country, especially our country, has to right to defend itself and its population, and part of that defense involves screening people entering as immigrants.  

Our country used to turn back people who were ill.  We've made progress.

Now it's only people who belong to a group who might want to kill us that need screening.

Jews were kept from entering in 1924 on as it was feared not that they would attack people in this country, but would take away jobs others needed.  There had been a big influx of eastern European Jews and this slowdown came at a time they most needed to escape the anti-Semitism that was building up then.

"The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68–139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States as of the 1890 census, down from the 3% cap set by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which used the Census of 1910. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of  Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians and Eastern European Jews."
                                                                       

My uncle was possibly the last Jew to get out of Germany in May 1939 and take a ship to the USA.  In order to do so, he had to have a sponsor who would take all economic responsibility for him.  G-d forbid that the USA would have to spend any money supporting him.  My great uncle, Max Turn of La Grande, Oregon,  took this responsibility,  and got him a job with his nephew, Morris Goldfoot.  It turned out to be a good match in Morris's new business of wholesale meats, and they became partners  and brothers in law after a few years.   During the first part of WWII, Jews couldn't get to the USA, Palestine or anywhere.  They had to have documents showing they had been baptized as Christians.  Of course Jews were not allowed.
                                                                       

During WWII, we were at war with Japan.  We stopped Japanese immigration.  At the same time, we had many recent immigrants here from Japan.  They were all rounded up and placed in internment camps.  They had to sell their homes at outrageously low prices, taking a loss.  The California Japanese were brought up to Portland and placed in the International stockyards that had held cattle for the duration of the war.  Somehow, some wound up in Eastern Oregon, far from the ocean where they were feared the most to be able to warn Japanese submarines, and were allowed to farm.
                                                                                   

Report is that ISIS buries their own soldiers alive if they desert.
They brainwash children at an early age; that we know for sure.

The Middle East has gone crazy; meshugana.  ISIS is a very Muslim movement that is intent on taking over all the Middle East countries and then work on Europe.  This is reflecting the same experience Islam went through in their beginning stages when they did and reached Spain, etc about 1,500 years ago.  You can see that ISIS is bloodthirsty and loves to cut off heads, just like they used to do.
                                                                             

Iraq and Syria have been destroyed by ISIS and are now in their hands with the USA trying to deter them without having boots on the ground.  The fact is that they have now taken over these places and have Iraq's air force jets and only need pilots which they may or may not have at this point.
                                                                           

Another beheading by ISIS

One thing they do have are lots and lots of people dedicated to giving their lives for their cause.  I suppose it's a psychological thing to belong to a cause for them, even though it is of taking lives, something we in the West are highly against.
                                                                                   

How did this young couple get into the USA?  They were ISIS This July 27, 2014, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows
it's only common sense to really screen Muslim immigrants.  She, I remember
was one of the worst. She was even a mother to a young child.  

We have laws on the books about screening immigrants, but no one has been following them.  We need something more other than the brief screening in order to assure our people that no one intent on helping the ISIS cause would be entering our country and causing any mass deaths like has already happened.

Our president has laid out a plan that would call for the stopping of entrance of people from 6 Middle Eastern countries which happen to be Muslim majority countries.  That's because ISIS's cause is of a radical Muslim philosophy.

Let me tell you something.  In 2013, when Obama was President, I tried to get a Syrian to the USA who was my friend.  He had been told that his birth mother was Jewish, not a Muslim.  His father had fallen in love with her.  He was excited about it and wanted to study Judaism.  He felt Jewish, he told me.  I did everything I could under the sun to get him here and couldn't.  Syria was on a list.  He was a young man.  I was not a relative.  He had none here.  Nobody wanted a Syrian here that would need a job-he would be taking away a job from others.  He was an engineer.  I was told that only-only if he were a famous person, like an atomic scientist, could he ever get here, and then it might take a year or so to do so. Yes, I was even conversing with my Senator.  It was impossible and now...now I just met a lovely young man working in a restaurant from Iraq, and before that met many from Iraq working in a parking garage.  Refugees have been coming in, but I still couldn't get my friend in, and he couldn't do it, either.

This is not a perfect world.  It takes time to change people's attitudes.
                                                                          

9/11 started the fear and worry about Muslim immigrants.  "The September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11)^[  were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage and $3 trillion in total costs."  These killers came from Saudi Arabia, a  100% Muslim country.  

                                             

A woman received help following the first of two explosions on Boylston Street Monday. April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon and the events that followed.

What we still fear are things like what happened in Boston.  Those immigrant brothers weren't even from the Middle East proper, but were Muslims. "On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs."

 The acts of the few cause the attitudes for the whole group.  That's why the Chinese have always been so aware of their actions affecting the whole family and bringing dishonor to them.  Killings have happened by Muslims; in acts killing 1 or as many as 53.  This doesn't help us to think that they're not out to get us all.  An act of 1 dying give all Muslims in the USA a bad name.  People who are a minority, such as Jews, Blacks, Orientals, Native Americans, all recognize this fact.  Muslims must, too.

"Since 9/11, an additional 145 Americans have been killed in 50 separate acts of deadly Islamic terror or Islam-related honor killing in the United States.   Hundreds of mass murder plots have been thwarted or botched.  The real story is not "Islamophobia" but American tolerance - which rightly refuses to punish the individual based on group identity. "Evidently much of this tolerance is from Hollywood, but the rest of us know it can still happen.  That's because nothing has changed in the world to cause it to change.  " Studies show that between 5 - 25% of Muslims in America believe that violence in defense of Islam is justified. "  

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description

2015.07.16

USA

Chattanooga, TN

5

2

A 'devout Muslim' stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.

2015.12.02

USA

San Bernardino, CA

14

17

A 'very religious' Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.

2016.06.13

USA

Orlando, FL

49

53

An Islamic extremist massacres forty-nine people at a gay nightclub.

2017.01.06

USA

Fort Lauderdale, FL

5

6

A convert to Islam guns down five innocents in the baggage claim area of an airport.

I have to add this one because meshuganas can crawl out of the woodwork:

2014.09.25

USA

Moore, OK

1

1

A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.

Sharia law is a Muslim law.  We live under American laws.  A religious law should only apply to those of that religion; not to others.  
Trump is President because he answered the call to protect our country better.  He's not the first to check out our immigration system.  You can't accept a 3 month halt to 6 countries who are the worst, loaded with radicals while a better screening system is created?  You know, I can't get into Iran, or Saudi Arabia.  I'm a Jew and I'm an Israeli as well as an American.  I wouldn't dream of blowing anyone or anything up.  My password is TO LIFE!  Yet I'm not allowed.  It's not a perfect world.  Not yet.  Maybe when Saudi Arabia allows people like me to visit their country--not even to live there, as these immigrants want to do, then we might stop worrying about radical Muslims entering our  country without any malice against us in their hearts.

Resource:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/american-attacks.aspx-huge list of killings
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/20/properly-screening-immigrants-terror-plagued-count/
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-san-bernardino-shooting-terror-investigation-htmlstory.html
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/boston-marathon-explosions

The Ariel Threat Israel Faces

Nadene Goldfoot                                            

Israel surrounded by unfriendly nations with Egypt and Jordan who have signed a peace pact.  Syria and Iraq are now the Islamic State (ISIS) land, wanting to destroy Israel. They have the weaponry of those nations .   Saudi Arabia is conferring with Israel over ISIS.  Lebanon is mostly run by Hezbollah terrorists. The 1990 Gulf War shows that Israel cannot go back to the pre-1967 border in an era now of ballistic missiles and long-range bombers capable of crossing vast amounts of territory in minutes.   

   
The big threat facing Israel today happens to be missiles from Iran.  This state that is in the hands of an Ayatollah has been threatening Israel ever since they deposed the Shah.  Israel has faced many threats from them including an atomic holocaust.  Now that they have nuclear material, it's very possible.  Their agenda is sparked by a belief in the end of times and that they must destroy. Iran had a population of 76,923,300 in 2011.
                                                                             

 Russia supplies Iran who is supplying Hezbollah who is in Lebanon.  Lebanon's Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (2nd R), escorted by his bodyguards, greets his supporters at an anti-U.S. protest in Beirut's southern section which is nearer to Israel.  ... It's almost like having Iran on Israel's border.  Iran has 545,000 active troops in their armed forces.  Lebanon has about 72,100 active troops. They have in their air force:    Fighters: Grumman F-14 Tomcat, Mikoyan MiG-29, Dassault Mirage F1, Chengdu J-7

Transports: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Ilyushin Il-76, More

                                                                     

Iraq's newest F161Q Block 52 fighter jets that trained in Arizona.
This was the first of 36 ordered.  

ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State, and by its Arabic language acronym Daesh, is a Salafi jihadist unrecognised state and militant  group that follows a fundamentalist, Wahhabi doctrine of Sunni Islam. It is no longer called ISIL.  
.Iraq had been an enemy with Saddam Hussein at the helm, but the Gulf War changed things.  In the 1980's, before its attack on Kuwait, Iraq bought some $50 billion in modern arms from both the East and the West.  Saddam had some 2,000 tanks and 400 to 500 combat aircraft.  some of Iraq's chemical arsenal, nuclear materials, facilities and some mobile ballistic missile launchers survived the Gulf War in good shape, and went undetected by the United Nations inspectors.  They still remain a possible long-term threat to Israel.  The UN inspectors can destroy equipment, but they can't eliminate  the knowledge that Iraqi scientists have. Iraq's population was 31,234,000 in 2011.  Iraq had in 2011 254,418 active troops.   They might use their experience to rebuild Iraq's unconventional capabilities one day. Iraq's air force has:  Transports: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, More

Reconnaissances: AMD Alarus, Cessna 208 Caravan, Beechcraft Super King Air

Attack aircrafts: Sukhoi Su-25, Aero L-159 Alca

    They were actively fighting in : Engagements: Iran–Iraq War, Iraq War, Gulf War, More .""It would take only 35 minutes for missiles from Iraq's H3 point to Jerusalem to fly 
the 250 miles. 

In 1955, Nasser of Egypt turned to the Soviet Union because the USA had armed Iraq, Egypt's hated rival and had promoted the Baghdad Pact.  Nasser was opposing any agreement of a defense alliance with the West.        
                                                                                   

Syrian missiles aimed for Israel before ISIS appeared.  

Syria, now belonging to ISIS (Islamic State) mostly except Damascus, still in the hands of Assad and keeping conditions normal.  On 1 June 2015, the United States embassy in Syria stated that the Syrian government was "making air-strikes in support" of an ISIS advance on Syrian opposition positions north of Aleppo.  The president of the Syrian National Coalition, Khaled Koja, accused Assad of acting "as an air force for [ISIS  with the Defence Minister of the SNC Salim Idris stating that approximately 180 Syrian government officers were serving in ISIS and coordinating the group's attacks with the Syrian Arab Army." Much of the population has become refugees seeking asylum but in 2011 they had a population of 22,505,000.  296,000 were active troops in their army.  Now there are several different groups either fighting for Syria/ISIS or against them.  According to a Reuters report that cited "jihadist ideologues" as a source, 90% of ISIS's fighters in Iraq are Iraqi, and 70% of its fighters in Syria are Syrian.  The article stated that the group has 40,000 fighters and 60,000 supporters across its two primary strongholds in Iraq and Syria.  According to scholar Fawaz Gerges writing in ISIS: A History, some "30 percent of the senior figures" in ISIS 's military command are former army and police officers from the disbanded Iraqi security forces, drawn to ISIS by the US De-Ba'athification policy and turn towards Islamism by Sunni following the US invasion of Iraq.   From Damascus to northern Israel is 44 miles, taking a missile 7 minutes.   

"ISIS is now believed to be operational in 18 countries across the world, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, with "aspiring branches" in Mali, Egypt, Somalia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines.   The USA is intent on wiping them out.  I imagine that the heart of ISIS- Syria and Iraq, is the best place to attack.    In an interview with Iranian TV, Assad said that the success of this agreement of a  Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition was vital to save the Middle East from destruction. He said that the year-long air campaign by US-led coalition had been counterproductive and had helped terrorism to spread and win new recruits, but that the new coalition of Russia, Syria, Iran, and Iraq, could achieve real results                                          

King Abdullah and the Jordanian soldiers

           Jordan modernized its armed forces in the 1990's.  They mobilized them all along its border with Israel during the Gulf conflict.  Jordan then built up its arms inventories and then boasted to be one of the Arab world's most modern arsenals to go along with the most professional officer corps in the Arab world.
                                                                             

Jordan bought 50 of these MBombe armoured vehicles.

 During the Gulf War, King Hussein threw his lot in with the Iraqis.  I note that he also did the same thing in 1967 against Israel.  He aroused suspicion in Israel about his willingness to again join an eastern front. Jordan had a population of 5,356,869 in 2011.  In 2011 they had 100,700 active troops.   Now they also have ISIS as an enemy. Jordan's air force has:  Fighters: General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, Northrop F-5

Trainers: CASA C-101, Slingsby T67 Firefly

Transports: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, EADS CASA C-295

Update: While living and teaching in Israel, I had my jr high students write in March 1982 to President Reagan in their own words telling of their concerns about the USA selling arms to Jordan, and other countries like Saudi Arabia.   They probably went unnoticed as the USA kept selling arms.  

                                                

Tarhunah chemical plant in Libya

Libya is one of the 7 nations on the no immigration to the USA list that will last for a few months.  That's because they have so many radical terrorists living there.  
                                                                     

Libya has militias who have been trading online high powered weapons. 

They have been receiving massive arsenals of Soviet-supplied weaponry for years.  By the 90's they had enough to directly be able to attack Israel.  They have the capacity for aerial refuelling of its bombers which gives them the means to reach Israel.  US intelligence discovered the construction of a 2nd Libyan chemical plant that was built underground besides the one they had with the Rabta facility.  That one was estimated to have produced as much as 100 tons of chemical agents.  "Libya is constructing what would be the world’s largest underground chemical plants near a place called Tarhunah, about 60 kilometers southeast of Tripoli. They began this work, we think, in about 1992, and we know that their chemical weapons production facility at Rabta has been inactive since it was exposed in the late 1980s, partly as a result of our efforts.  Tarhunah is to be a reconfigured version of the plant at Rabta, and that it will, if it moves forward, be used to produce blister agents such as mustard gas and perhaps nerve agents as well.  Libya had a population of 6,173,579 in 2011.  In 2011 Libya had 76,000 active troops.   Libya's air force has: Fighters: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, Dassault Mirage F1

Transports: Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Antonov An-26, Antonov An-32, Antonov An-72, Ilyushin Il-76

Trainers: Aero L-39 Albatros, Soko G-2 Galeb, SIAI-Marchetti SF.260

Attack aircrafts: Sukhoi Su-17, Sukhoi Su-24

They fought in : Engagements: Libyan Civil War, Factional violence in Libya, More

                                                                         

   
Saudi Arabia is speaking to Israel these days.  They have  mutual enemies in Iran and ISIS.                                               

Nuclear missiles like these might be bought by Saudi Arabia from Pakistan. 

With a small population of mostly their clan, they import workers.  They have continued to order weapons on a grand scale, trying to have the military capabiities far beyond their own defense needs.  The United States has been supplying them with arms, especially in the 1990s which was a bigger order than all previous years by a wide margin.  In the aftermath of the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia was still trying to buy large quantities of new US weaponry even though Iraq, the primary threat to their Kingdom's security, had had its military capability drastically reduced.  They can be a threat to Israel as a modest, well-armed force can have a substantial impact on the balance of forces.  They could esily deploy into Jordan before to the start of hostilities, or even after a war started when the Israeli Air force could be too preoccupied with ISIS attacking Israel, or even another Hamas intifada.  It used to be Syria or Iraq that Israel had to beware of, but right now their government is in disarray.
                                                                         

Saudi Arabia is the world's biggest weapons importer. 

In 1980 Saudi Arabia bought more than $50 billion in USA arms and military services.  The Saudi forces could not have defended their country even with these arms.  Iraq would have won, if Saddam Hussein had continued his blitzkrieg into Saudi Arabia before the American forces arrived in August 1990.  Most of these USA arms sold to Riyadh over the years would now be in Iraqi hands.  Saudis simply cannot withstand an assault by a large force since they have a small force.  That's why they are speaking with Israel.

The USA, we pray, would not hand over lots of aircraft and missiles to any force when it cannot ensure these weapons would not be used against Israel. That's why Iran was such a worry.  Their monarchy has been overthrown and a very hostile regime has taken its place.  If they attacked Saudi Arabia they would take control of the Saudi arsenal.  The Saudi buildup since the 1973 War that happened on Yom Kippur changes this equation.  The Kingdom can be pressured into offensive action against Israel by other eastern front partners because of this buildup. Saudi Arabia had a population of 27,730,000 in 2011.  They had 199,500 active troops.   Saudi Arabia's air force has: Attack aircraft: Eurofighter Typhoon

Bomber: McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

Fighters: Eurofighter Typhoon, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

They fought in: Engagements: Gulf War, Military intervention against ISIL, More

                                                                                 

Lebanon's   animosity towards Israel continues today only because it provides a convenient excuse for Hizballah to maintain a formidable arsenal that it uses to control Lebanon and to help its allies in Syria. Lebanon has no valid justification for its hatred towards Israel. The tiny "Shabaa Farms," on the border with Israel, which is only 22 square kilometers in size, is often cited as a reason, but Syria also claims that same piece of land. Moreover, Israel is reported to be willing to evacuate it if it were to come under the control of UN peacekeepers. The "Shabaa Farms" is an excuse, not a reason.  Lebanese governments have even made anti-Israel aggression their policy. In 2009, the cabinet issued a policy statement recognizing Hizballah's "right to use arms against Israel," despite the objections of some ministers who insisted that Hizballah's "substantial arsenal ... undermines the authority of the state"

The Russia–Syria–Iran–Iraq coalition (RSII coalition), also referred to as 4+1 (in which the "plus one" refers to Hezbollah of Lebanon).  Russia is busy backing Israel's most dangerous enemies.  

"Israel was unable to stop Hezbollah activity, in spite a major offensive in 1996 (Operation Grapes of Wrath).Israeli withdrawal in 2000  was a victory for Hezbollah but also made it kind of a fighter without an opponent, it needed to justify its continuing existence as a major military force in Lebanon. Hezbollah kept on being a thorn in Israel's side, arguing that Israel was still occupying Lebanese territory (the territory in question is a tiny strip of land barely big enough for a golf course that Israel says is Syrian territory it occupied in 1967, Lebanon says is Lebanese, and Syria sends mixed signal about). Also Hezbollah griped about overflights and made noises about wanting to wipe Israel off the map and throw the Jews into the sea (you know, the standard boilerplate). In 1992 it had begun running in elections, and it also had started providing social and charitable services in areas under its control, making it part of the fabric of life in Lebanon."
                                                                          

Hezbollah marches

.Lebanon has had a national unity government since February 2014 that includes members of Hizballah and members of Hariri's party, but in January 2016, then Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi, a member of Hariri's party, resigned. This followed Saudi Arabia's cancellation of a deal worth $4 billion in support of the Lebanese army. The Saudi move resulted from Lebanon's failure to support Saudi Arabia against Iran, the sponsor of Hizballah. Rifi said that Hizballah "is an armed party that is dominating the government's decisions".Lebanon had wanted to negotiate peace with Israel, but that all dialogue was blocked by Syria. Hamade said that, "While Hariri and his block wished to normalize and demilitarize Lebanon after Israel's 2000 withdrawal from southern Lebanon, Hezbollah and Syria wanted the opposite".Lebanon is not a free state with its own government.  Christians have not been in the government for years.  It was 60% Muslim in 2011 with a population of 4,196,453, smaller than Israel's 7.7 million.  The rule had been that they had a Christian President and Sunni Prime Minister and Shi'ite  speaker in the Parliament.  That has changed.  The Christian leaders were assassinated, which remains a lesson to Israel as to why it must remain a dominate Jewish population.   Lebanon had a population of 4,196,453 in 2011.  They had 72,100 active troops.  (Update:  Lebanon's Army and Hizbullah Join Ranks - Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira
Hizbullah has completed the process of usurping the Lebanese state and its institutions. The election of Michel Aoun as president, through a forced arrangement with Hizbullah, has fulfilled the Iranian vision of controlling Lebanon. Aoun's declaration that Hizbullah's military power is a main component of Lebanon's defense grants it the legal authority to operate as a legitimate military force. The Lebanese president's declaration has essentially removed Hizbullah from the restrictions of UN Security Council Resolution 1559 of September 2, 2004, that called for "the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias.")                                                                                       

Israel's El Al passenger plane

Israel finally received weapons from President Johnson (1963-1969) when it was clear that she had no other sources to buy arms.  It was the Soviet Union who was arming her neighbors.  From fiscal 1946 through fiscal 1990, Israel received about $50 billion in US economic and military assistance.  The Arab states received a similar amount.  The Arab nations were also at the same time receiving assistance from Asia, Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the European Community.  The USA's weaponry pursued a policy whereby Israel's qualitative edge was maintained.  The USA was also committed to arming the Arab nations, however, and provided Jordan, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states   with sophisticated missiles, tanks and aircraft.  So, while Israel received F-15s in 1978, so too did Egypt and Saudi Arabia.  In 1981, Saudi Arabia, for the 1st time, received a weapons system that gave it a qualitative advantage over Israel---AWACS radar planes.  Ronald Reagan was president from 1981 to1989.  Before Reagan was Jimmie Carter.  
                                                                         

Dinner with USA, Israel and Palestine Authority 

US-Israel strategic cooperation had continued to evolve.  Joint ventures in research and development of several weapons systems, including the Arrow anti-tactical ballistic missile have been undertaken.  Joint exercises and data exchanges continue.  Israeli-produced weapons and intelligence were used in the Gulf War.  The period where this cooperation was questioned was during Obama's reign when he personally disliked Israel and showed it.  
                                                                              

Israeli air force jet

It should be understood by all that the 80% of US military assistance for Israel is spent in the USA which has created jobs and profits for American firms.  The largest orders, those worth $100,000 or more, proves how widely the benefits are spread by helping out Israel.  From 1987-90, over 1,000 companies in 47 states, DC and Puerto Rico signed contracts worth more than $4.2 billion with Israel.  In 1990, it was almost $1 billion.  Israel received $1.8 billion in Foreign Military Financing then and more than $1.5 billion was also spent on smaller contracts signed with US firms. 
                                                                          

Israeli tank

It was when Nasser of Egypt made his 1955 arms deal that Israel appealed to the USA for the right to purchase arms.  It referred Israel to France and other European suppliers, instead.  It wasn't until 1962  during Kennedy's reign that the USA agreed to sell Israel its first significant American system, the HAWK anti-aircraft missile.  
                                                                                              

IAF jets

Egypt received Soviet help in 1955 under Eisenhower's administration of the Soviet IL-28 bomber.  By 1958 France provided Israel with a squadron of comparable Sud Vautour twin-jet tactical bombers.  In 1957 Egypt got MiG-17 fighter planes from Russisa and Israel received the comparable Super Mystere in 1959.  After the Egyptians got Mig-21, Israelis ordered the Dassault Mirage III supersonic interceptor and fighter-bomber.  And so it went.  Israel had to keep up with what the enemies were receiving so easily.  By 1977, Egypt owed the USSR about $11 billion, even when receiving arms at bargain prices in exchange for cotton and with long-term cheap-money credits.  The world has been making a fortune by keeping the Middle East in a War mode.  They have needed the hatred for economic reasons, it seems to me.
                                                                   

Israel's 1981 jet used in Operation Opera

          

In 1968, after the 1967 Six Day War when Israel won, the Johnson Administration sold Israel Phantom jets.  The American policy had finally shifted to emphasize maintaining the Jewish State's qualitative advantage.  Since then, they have sold sophisticated arms to Israel's adversaries that has wiped out Israel's edge we thought was being maintained.  Israel had a population of 6 million Jews and 1.7 million Arabs making 7.7 million.  It grew in 2013 to 8.059 million.  

Ethnic groups(2016)	74.8% Jewish 20.8% Arab 4.4% other[1]
Religion	74.8% Jewish 17.6% Muslim 2% Christian 1.6% Druze 4% other[2]

All over 18 are capable of being active troops including Druze who want to serve,   except the other Arabs who for them make their own decision as to joining the IDF.  Jews are required unless given a religious deferment by attending a Yeshiva.  Both men and women serve.  
                                                                              

Israel's extremely expensive defense system of shooting down rockets.
Iron Dome is the world's first operational anti-artillery rocket defense system.
Update:  

Syrian missile intercepted by israel on friday had 200 kg warhead

Israel's Arrow missile defense system neutralized threat of 200 kilo warhead fired by Syria.

Israel's Arrow missile defense system neutralized threat of 200 kilo warhead fired by Syria.

Israel's Arrow missile defense system neutralized threat of 200 kilo warhead fired by Syria.

"The nation's military relies heavily on high-tech weapons systems designed and manufactured in Israel as well as some foreign imports. 

Women in Israel can fix and fly jets.

The Arrow missile is one of the world's few operational anti-ballistic missile systems. The Python air-to-air missile series is often considered one of the most crucial weapons in its military history. Israel's Spike missile is one of the most widely exported ATGMs in the world. Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile air defense system gained worldwide acclaim after intercepting hundreds of Qassam, 122 mm Grad and Fajr-5 artillery rockets fire by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. Since the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Israel has developed a network of reconnaissance satellites. The success of the Ofeq program has made Israel one of seven countries capable of launching such satellites.

Resource: Book:  Myths and Facts by Mitchell G. Bard, Joel Himelfarb, 1992, p. 288, more
Book: Messages From A Syrian Jew Trapped in Egypt-covering chemicals used on Syrian civilians.  by Nadene Goldfoot
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8952/lebanon-israel
https://www.google.com/#q=Libya%27s+chemical+plant+in+Rabta%2C+PIctures&*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Muslim-majority_countries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Syria%E2%80%93Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_coalition