• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Without the large amount of material and monetary support America provides to keep Israel’s military the strongest in the region, they would get steamrolled by their neighbors. Probably not immediately, but it would be inevitable. Note that I’m not saying anything about whether this is right or wrong from any ethical point of view in any direction, simply that it absolutely would happen. For whatever reason it has consistently been the policy of the American government not to let this happen.

    Israel’s very existence as a modern state has been, shall we say, deeply unpopular with its Arab neighbors literally since day one.

    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
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      22 minutes ago

      the reason is that its free surveillance on the rest of the region. USA wants to keep an eye on countries they seem hostile and their interests (oil).