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Israel doesn't manufacture its own weapons. It depends upon the US for them. And it depends upon the US aid to finance those weapons.Really beside the point. The question is not whether the U.S. supports the State of Israel - an obvious fact. The question is whether such support is the result of an explicit U.S. policy to protect it's oil interests.
Nope. Israel gives us a military base in the area that isn't a US military base.In any conflict in the MidEast, U.S. troops will not be allowed to enter via Israel and no Israeli troops will be allowed to fight alongside U.S. troops. Israeli power is useless beyond the borders of Israel (though you could include the occupied territories if you're so inclined). Israeli military power is a negative beyond that range - at least when viewed through the lense of applying military force in the U.S. interests.
Yes. But if it was a US military base instead of Israel, then the antagonism against Israel would be against the US. Considering that people in "friendly" countries over there like to shoot at our troops over there....I don't know what planet you're from, but the one I take part in hardly works that way. Every time the Israelis piss off their neighbors, I don't think it reduces the amount of tension with the U.S. Indeed, I'd think it rather obvious that the exact opposite is the reaction. If the stuff your spouting were true, Osama and his ilk would have devoted all their effort against Israel, not the WTC.
The situation the US likes BEST is for the mid-east to be a bunch of small, weak, bickering nations. That way, they all have to curry favour with the US for our weapons and dollars.Since bickering seems to be an inherent feature in the region, the U.S. doesn't have to do a whole lot.
When one nation starts to grow too big, we need a way of putting it down without doing it ourselves.And which nation is it that you think should take over all the rest? Is Osama the natural leader of this idyllic united country? The only thing that seemingly unites these people seems to be their dislike of Israel.
Besides, any effort to unite Arabia would (a) be bloody - Millions of lives lost; (b) likely non-democratic (similar to Hitler's effort to unite Europe); and (c). disruptive to every economy on the planet.
Personally, I think the third point is the main reason the U.S. tries to prevent the concentration of power in a single despotic rulers hands.
That is where Israel comes in. Such as when they did the strike on the Iraqi nuclear plant.If you recall, the U.S. did not exactly ask Israel go out of it's way at the time. Looking back, after Desert Storm, we can say that the Israelis probably did us a favor. But I've seen no evidence that Israel did it in response to pressure from the U.S. foreign policy, much less for the stability of oil supplies.
Nope. Israel gives the radical elements in the region someone other than the US to focus on and to attack. Israel strikes at targets the US needs it to strike at without the US having to send US troops to do it. All of this keeps the region in the chaotic state that we like it to be in.Pure opinion which is not backed up by the obvious facts. The support of Israel has a negative impact in our relations with the countries that supply us oil. Any forward strategic capability provided by such a proxy is more than outweighed by the problems that no coordination can be made in any military adventure.