The Saudis barely even use their own people in the military. They use a bunch of retarded Turk mercs who the Yemenis routinely post ambush videos about. They are shockingly incompetent.
Money can't buy competence.
The breakdown of the IDF is this:
It's Navy, which comes mainly from Germany (they buy it from Germany), is it kin to a European Navy. Nothing major. Let's say Greece. It's army which is domestic and domestically armed is probably closer to our national guard in terms of strength. When it comes to what we fund we mainly give them replacement munitions because they don't have munitions factories that are as large as ours. Their Air Force is supplied from the United States (they buy our airplanes). Their Air Force is probably the third (or second) most competent Air Force in the world after the United States Air Force and Navy airwing. They act as test beds for our equipment.
For people who are reading this, it's important to understand that the Israelis only care about one thing. It's the continued existence of the Israeli State as a Homeland for the Jewish people. That means they're not going to export their materials to other countries so they can increase jihad or spread Islam everywhere. Anything you give the Israelis will stay in Israel. As to why the United States and the Israelis work so closely together, you could chalk it up to the fact that the United States has the second largest Jewish population in the world. But it's also due to the fact that the Israelis and the United States share a similar worldview. Whereas the Europeans are focused on jerking themselves around and courts and all this other crap. That means nothing. The Americans and the Israelis know that the end of the day what matters is action and consequences. In a sense they both are cowboys. The Israelis are also our closest allies because we don't have issues with them. The Israelis listen to us and we listen to them. In many ways, the Israeli alliance with the United States is closer to our alliance with South Korea and Japan.
However, you also must understand something and this is very important. Countries go after Israel because they know if they succeed they can use the same tactics to go after the United States. In many ways Israel is the test balloon for anti-american activities.
You might not like Jews, you might not like the liberal Jews of the United States (believe me, many Israelis are sick of them too), but the Israelis won't stab you in the back over bullshit local politics like the Europeans will. Remember, the British aren't actually getting involved in these strikes because the current prime minister thinks that it's "against international law" as per Court's his country doesn't even recognize. Furthermore, they have to be very concerned about their Muslim constituents. Furthermore, they have to be very concerned about their Muslim constituents.
The only way to get the Israelis to go against you is to threaten their existence. In the end, the Israelis are practical people, the United States is a nation of practical people.
So shut the fuck up. Stop spurging out about the Jews and Israel and realize that if the United States didn't think this would be good for United States interests, we wouldn't have done this.