The reason behind US support for Israel becomes clear if you consider
what would likely happen if Palestinians became autonomous or if they
became the majority in a democratic, multi-ethnic state. Either
development would upend American-enforced “stability.”
Palestinians in Jordan and elsewhere would attempt to exercise their
right of return. Repressed peoples across the Middle East would rise up
to demand the kind of freedom from dictators that the Palestinians
secured from Israel. Palestinian liberation would trigger a chain of
events that could entirely free the region from the American grip as
people demand that they — not monarchs and not Western corporations —
benefit from their oil.
That’s why the US government’s proclaimed support for Palestinian liberation
is as unbelievable as Netanyahu’s. Anything more than a severely
attenuated Palestinian state would jeopardize America’s seventy-year old
— never-altered — priority. And that prospect, not The Lobby, is the
primary reason that the United States stands virtually alone against the
rest of the world in unconditionally supporting Israel’s violence
against Palestinians.
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