1) Israel is a nuclear armed nation 2) A massive voting block(Evangelical Protestants) in the United States believes that the Bible commands them to protect the holy land (Israel), and so they elect senators and representatives who believe the same. Those said congressmen have a massive pull over the Republican party and any Republican running for president basically has no choice but to appease them if they wish to actually maintain their job.

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The ally powers in WWII created Israel to have power in and over the Middle East

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the whole “Sampson Option” ordeal really shifted the dynamic. we are not allied got our benefit anymore. we are allied bc we are in a pseudo cold war dynamic.

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Money (and civilians to test on) for defense contractors. A stable base in the Middle East. Mutual hatred of Muslims. The Evangelical voting bloc and to a (much) lesser extent the Jewish voting bloc.

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imperialism. “israel” is the active expansion of colonialism, and is a site for American weapons testing and training. the tactics of control and violence are perfected in the colonies before they are brought back to the metropole. the imperial boomerang. all other answers are wrong

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The original excuse was Israel was the only country in the region that supported US foreign policy goals. Seeing as we’ve gained every gulf state except for Iran to our side this no longer applies

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