Et tu, Chomsky?

Now, Noam Chomsky's copyin' my style. DAMN YOU NOAM! Ok, so neither one of us was the first to contend that perhaps the US-Israel marriage is based on common, weapon interests, but come on Chomsky, syntactician to syntactican, can't you leave me some small sense of originality?

And did you have to state the position better than me? Couldn't you have at least been less informative? Ok, I'll cite the master:

The huge flow of arms to Israel serves many subsidiary purposes. Middle East policy analyst Mouin Rabbani observes that Israel can test newly developed weapons systems against defenseless targets. This is of value to Israel and the US "twice over, in fact, because less effective versions of these same weapons systems are subsequently sold at hugely inflated prices to Arab states, which effectively subsidizes the U.S. weapons industry and U.S. military grants to Israel." These are additional functions of Israel in the US-dominated Middle East system, and among the reasons why Israel is so favored by the state authorities, along with a wide range of US high-tech corporations, and of course military industry and intelligence.