“Will someone explain how the United States benefits from its relationship with Israel?”
Easy question to answer:
1. Israel is our outpost in the Mid East.
2. Their intelligence is regarding the Sand Savages is vastly better than ours.
3. They are our military surrogate in the Mid East.
4. The Israeli military often improves the weapon systems we send to them; then, we incorporate said improvements.
5. Israel provides America with a necessary stick when dealing with Arabs, such as “Want us to stop putting the brakes on the Israelis?”
Also, never to be forgotten is the fact that most of the world’s governments hire an Israeli company to provide computer security. Think about this one.
What don’t they know?
Not to mention they took out Saddam Hussein’s nuclear plant, and then they sat on their hands while the got bombarded by scuds during gulf war 1 so it wouldn’t upset the arab alliance that Bush put together.