Whats the U.S. role in arab israeli conflict?
The US is not an honest mediator although I don’t think they are being intentionally obstructionist or malevolent; basically, the US is conflicted: – it has a high percentage of the world’s jewish population who have made themselves a very powerful loby group – the arab world has a lot of oil – the state of Israel is threatened by its neighbours and the US does have a feeling (albeit a little ambivalent) that their is a moral duty to protect the state as much as they felt the same towards Europe during the cold war – on the other hand the US is often uncomfortable with the more extreme positions and views propounded by Israel that don’t sit comfortably with the general US position on UN resolutions, nuclear non-proliferation, human rights, etc. Bottom line is that any nation that provides over $2bn/year in military aid to one side of the conflict while buying 50% of the exports of the other side of the conflict (oil) can never be a mediator – they are part of the issue (and only someti
