Israel has been used by the USA to police the Middle East for the past six decades.It has done so because the Middle East supplies much of the world's oil and the USA has the stategic aim of controlling either directly or indirectly this oil.
Through Israel and sometimes directly itself, the USA has been able to bribe , confront,browbeat ,threaten,cajole or subdue Arab nationalism.
It has inflicted or propped up dictators in the Middle East from Saddam in Iraq to the Shah in Iran,from Mubarrak in Egypt to the Saudi Royal House in Saudi Arabia.
In all of this Israel plays the role of guard dog wielding the big stick on behalf of the bigger dog but also on occasions acting solely in its own interests.
And oh how the people of the Middle East have suffered ..none more so than the Palestinians who have been expelled, blown up and humiliated ....where did the one and a half million Palestinians in Gaza originally come from...not from Gaza which was once only a stip of dunes and desert...no ...they came from what is now Israel...and they want the right to return.
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