Israel will not be returned, the US will not drop its support for the state of israel, nor do half-measures (such as a divided state) have any possibility.
Here is why:
The US government has considered the middle east the single most strategic real estate in the world since WW II because of oil and gas. US policy in the middle east has two fulcra: Saudi Arabia and Israel, its two most problematic client states. Other nations enter into arrangements trading aid-and-defense for influence-and-military-bases (such as Qatar, Egypt), or are destablized by pitting them against each other.
Israel is pivotal in casting US influence and in destablizing the region. Furthermore, Jewish-American political support is crucial to american
politicians.
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Israel will not be returned, the US will not drop its support for the state of israel, nor do half-measures (such as a divided state) have any possibility.
Here is why:
The US government has considered the middle east the single most strategic real estate in the world since WW II because of oil and gas. US policy in the middle east has two fulcra: Saudi Arabia and Israel, its two most problematic client states. Other nations enter into arrangements trading aid-and-defense for influence-and-military-bases (such as Qatar, Egypt), or are destablized by pitting them against each other.
Israel is pivotal in casting US influence and in destablizing the region. Furthermore, Jewish-American political support is crucial to american
politicians.