Why does the US government consider Israel so important?
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Many reasons why US govt considers important.\n\n1.  Base in Middle East - Israel is the ally that keeps the power of the arabs in check and offers unquestionable support to US for that privilege. Oil is a serious issue, and Middle East is the largest supplier of oil. As long as the Arab states keep fighting each other, the OPEC is weak. Offering permanent solutions to Middle East problem is very harmful for world economy. So we keep stirring the pot once in a while.....to keep our SUVs going!\n\n2.  Finance and Academics : Jews control 40% of the FInancial and Educational Sector in the US. The economy would collapse without their support. FLight of capital and intelligence (brain drain) is a very serious and detrimental phenomenon in the modern world.\n\n3. Jews have nowhere else to go but the handful of Palestinians can be absorbed by the arab world. Should Israel caese to exist, the failure of US govt to support will create a civil war within US!\n\n4. There are more, many more reasons...but these are the primary IMO.
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Because the Jewish lobby is so powerful in Congress, Israel can do whatever it wants, and the US will support them. People are cautious about being critical of Israel because anytime one is critical of Israel they are labeled as being anti-Semitic.
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If America is so supportive of giving land to people who were killed in masses by an oppressive government than why haven't they given blacks their 40 acres and a mule yet? They coukld use all the money our government gives in Isael's miltary under the table to purchase the land. Israel recieved more money from the US than any other country and the US military baking them is why they have the right to exist. That and the fact they can have an Atomic weapon but no country around them that they threaten to use it on can.
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In monetary terms it's Israel. Approximately a third of the entire U.S. foreign aid budget goes to Israel.
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Consider foremost the common values that bind the US with the Middle East's only democracy, then the strategic value to the US of a strong Israel.\n\nAmerican aid to Israel was minimal until after the Six Day War, and only took off after Israel saved US ally Jordan from a PLO-Syrian invasion in 1970. The 1979 Camp David Accords, which secured peace between Israel and Egypt, mandated increased aid to Israel to compensate in part for Israel's return of the Sinai and the resulting loss of strategic depth, air bases, training grounds and oil fields. Israel's prescient destruction of Iraq's nuclear program in 1981 stopped Saddam Hussein from having nuclear weapons when he invaded Kuwait nine years later - nuclear weapons he could have used against US troops during the the first Gulf War.
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Because the country that the Jews live in is ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!
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Because Israel knows how to pull the strings and do extensive "under the table" work.\n\nIsrael is the result of extremist Zionist ideology.\n\nExtremism doesn't last. That's my word of advice for them.
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Yes, Israel is a threat to its neighbours and worst of all to itself. The power Israel holds now is based on the support it gets from the US and the spineless UK, but these countries' influence is on the wane, look at events in South America, and the Israeli government will get isolated further. This isolation, I believe, will result in desperation from the Israeli government which might result in some "pre-emptive strikes" from them that would send the region deeper into conflict.
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Republicans and other countries get along real well so they are probably just friends and pick on each other.\n\nAs far as Israel being our puppets it's actually the other way around, we are theirs.
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IT is about time someone spoke up,and thanks for your courage.Under the protection of the united states Israel has behaved so badly in it's dealing with its enemies.When one objects to their inhumane behavior,they raise the antisemitic flag.This is supposed to quell opposition to their actions.
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The Arab world See's the US as the big evil and Israel as the little evil.  The US has favorable foreign policy to Israel over the Arab world.  People say that they are our puppets.
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Israel holds America by the balls.
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Dr. Delight gave the correct answer.  Israel controls the U.S. government, and that is why the U.S. government consistently acts in Israel's interests.  It's not a matter of alliance; if it were, the alliance would have been terminated on 8 June 1967, when Israel attacked the USS Liberty.  Rather, Israel and the international banks and the mass media are controlled by Zionists who manage their respective assets in concert with each other.\n\nThe minions of Zionism have the power to wreck national economies, to instigate wars, to destroy political careers, and to assassinate politicians.  Your federal legislators aren't afraid of the tobacco lobby or the cotton lobby.  But they are very afraid of the Zionist lobby. That's why Israel can kill whoever it wants with little excuse and expect the U.S. government to support them.\n\nYou should not confuse the U.S. government with the American people.  The American people merely show up on election day to cast useless votes for either of two candidates whom the Zionists have pretty much pre-approved. Many Americans DON'T like what Israel does, but they don't have the political leverage necessary to change the situation.
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Get it through your heads.  Israel has controlled American policy since 1948.  It's the "New World Order".
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because Israel is our ally and Iran is not.  it's all about hypocrisy.
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Israel are only interested in Israel...UK is older,firmer friend and would usually stand with USA ...sometimes wrongly ..but no ones perfect...
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America would do anything just for the sake of Dollars. America is the wife of Israel.