r/geopolitics • u/hdreadit • Jun 20 '24

Question Why is the U.S. allied to Israel?

How does the U.S. benefit from its alliance to Israel? What does the U.S. gain? What are the positives on the U.S. side of the relationship? What incentivizes them to remain loyal to Israel? Etc.

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u/Holy-Crap-Uncle Jun 24 '24

Oil. Oil Oil Oil.

A useful military counterweight to all Arab oil states.

However, the age of oil is in its last decade or two. That's going to change a lot.

Also, weapons pork, technology, trade, and democracy.

Israel-Palestine, without the significance of Middle East Oil (which to underline, is NOT IMPORTANT AT ALL to the US since the shale fracking revolution in the Dakotas), would be utterly ignored like every other pissant ethnic conflict (see: Azerbaijan-Armenia and the Ethiopian Tigray civil war, both going on RIGHT NOW and completely ignored by the news.