Why the US supports Israel

Israel is the most important US ally in the Middle East. For decades, US governments have funded Israel's military and political regime and provided financial, intelligence and diplomatic support. Israel is the largest recipient of US military aid. Over the past several decades, Israel has played a crucial role in defending US imperial interests in the Middle East. It has helped the US dominate the region, thus reducing, but not eliminating, the need for direct US military involvement. Israel has served as a quasi-US military outpost in the world's most important geopolitical region. It has helped the US control the global oil spigot in the Middle East, on which the American Empire remains dependent.On the other hand, the US has been a critical sponsor of Israel's settler-colonial project. Over the past decades, US administrations have been fully complicit in Israel's occupation and apartheid regime, as well as in the dispossession, displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.