Isreal is important….Just not for religion.
If you look at a map of the Mideast. The US has basically gotten full control of the oil in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and a few smaller countries.
The U.S. needs to get that oil to U.S. soil the quickest and cheapest way.
Right now the oil is loaded on tankers in the Persian Gulf and have to loop around and route thru the Red Sea thru the Suez Canal.
Lots of time lost and we saw what happened when that Container ship got stuck a couple of years ago causing delays.
Going east out of the Gulf across the Indian/Pacific Ocean is also time and money consuming.
So what’s the fastest way?
A straight line running pipelines West.
Syria has been destabilized.
Jordan is a U.S. Ally under U.S. control.
Israel is a U.S. Ally……but the Palestinian’s are not.
To route pipelines thru Israel, the pipelines need to route thru Gaza/West Bank.
Which means Palestinian’s will profit from the movement of that oil thru their land.
That is a BIG NO NO!!!
So if you don’t wanna pay the Palestinian’s?
How do you get them out of the picture so you ain’t gotta pay them nothing?….