America’s need to maintain a presence in the Middle East, where a large part of global oil production is based, is one of the main reasons for its unflinching support for Israel.
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Always has been and has undoubtedly been the legacy residue of the Balfour Declaration. It’s been the ongoing catalyst for the breadth of Middle East hostilities in general.
And the Balfour Declaration was to a large part about ... the Suez Canal. Feels like an anachronism now. But as long as the British had India, the ME was just a transit hub for them. The oil wasn't even in the picture yet. The canal was all that counted.
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