How much do you want to pay for oil? Because oil makes everything go up in price.
Without Israel providing an important balance against the rouge states in the Middle East the Suez Canal would be unsafe and the Persian Gulf would be a mess. That impacts the economies of Europe, the US, Japan, Korea, and China.
What we pay Israel is cheap compared to what instability in the area would cost us otherwise.
Here is yet another reason I remain skeptical that things are not always as they are portrayed... ..........................snip................................
Netanyahu privately shared in 2019:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told Likud Party legislators, according to Haaretz, Israel's longest-running newspaper. Doing so would help prevent the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA) from ruling Gaza and giving Palestinians a relatively moderate, unified voice at the negotiating table. “This is part of our strategy -- to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Israel’s reckless exploitation of Hamas is as old as the group itself. Indeed, decades before Netanyahu’s closed-door candor, the Israeli government pushed Hamas into its initial prominence, with direct and indirect financial support.
Throughout the 1970s, Israel’s nemesis was the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In stark contrast to Hamas -- which emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood -- the PLO was a secular, leftist organization, led by Yasser Arafat, who headed the PLO’s Fatah faction.
As a former senior CIA official told UPI’s Richard Sale in 2001, Israel’s initial boosting of Hamas “was a direct attempt to divide and dilute support for a strong, secular PLO by using a competing religious alternative."
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... sounds so similar to Obama creating Isis with the CIA...
“How much do you want to pay for oil? Because oil makes everything go up in price.”
That would explain why we are zealously trying to take Russian oil off the market.
Is keeping oil steady and reasonably priced...ensuring free flow...in the interest of the US or not?
You got that backwards. We would have a much easier time if we didn’t;t support Israel to the degree we do. The Oil embargo’s of the 1970’s were specifically aimed at us because of our defense of Israel.