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Is the Alliance with Israel a Burden or a Bargain, the Ledger Examined The aid figures critics cite are real, but a fair ledger also counts what America gets back, and the restrainer case deserves an answer on its own terms. The 1973 Airlift That Saved Israel and Cost America an Oil Embargo Operation Nickel Grass rescued Israel in the Yom Kippur War, and the Arab oil embargo that followed taught America that energy is a security question. Israel Bombed Osirak in 1981 and the World Later Thanked It in Private Israel's 1981 raid on Iraq's reactor drew unanimous condemnation at the UN, then spared the 1991 coalition a nuclear-armed Saddam Hussein.