| vlad321 said: Edit: To me foreign help is fairly well defined as a foreign army or resources (whether it is money or weapons, or other such help). I have wondered before whether Israel woudl have received mroe help, maybe even some army, had the west not been completely decimated by WW2. |
Probably not. Even though they weren't inclined to commit soldiers to another military endeavor after such a huge war, they were hardly so bad off that they couldn't have afforded to offer some help in terms of armaments. America, which certainly wasn't devastated by WWII, placed an arms embargo on Palestine out of a desire not to see Arabs and Jews using American weapons to kill one another, while the British just didn't seem to care about honoring the promises they'd made to the Jews.
It remains as bizarre to me as ever that in a conflict between two autonomous groups, you consider a few Czech weapons to be more illegitimate than the intervention of tens of thousands of foreign troops.
