"One good reason" Well, it would be a bit ungrateful to the Yanks wouldn't it? I mean they really need that oil.
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"I think that the idea that xxxxxxxxx has a right to threaten another country with destruction...and provide military support to people targeting civilian populations, IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, while xxxxxxxxx should just let its own population be attacked without response to be a somewhat bigoted attitude."

Does it make any difference to the argument here if the two sets of XXX here are filled in as "the USA" and "the Palestinians" or "Iran" and "Israel"?