There is one and only one reason why the American government gives billions of dollars to Egypt and that money is to make sure that the Egyptian government will not repeat October 1973! It was stunning what took place in October 1973! The Jews had absolutely no idea what was coming and when Golda Meir learned that the Russian government was evacuating its citizens out of Syria and Egypt, Golda Meir said that the Russians were probably thinking that the Jews would be attacking the Arabs and she told Kissinger to tell the Russian government that the Jews had no plans of attacking the Arabs! There was no way that she would have even considered the possibility that this time around, it was the Arabs attacking the Jews! Even Kissinger said that it was as usual the Arabs bluffing but it turned out to be a very costly bluffing for the Jews in Palestine.