Reply #20: It's the other way around [View All]

[rockymountaindem]

If Israel had joined in either of these wars, the situation for the US would be much worse because of the regional antagonism (to say the least) between Israel and everybody else. That's the reason Saddam launched those missiles at them in 1991, to try and get Israel to enter the war against Iraq. Saddam knew that would have driven a wedge between the US and our Arab allies, such as Jordan, Egypt, Oman and the Saudis. So, if anything, having Israel stay out of these wars makes whatever situation we're in better.

And still nobody has proved to me what Israel is supposedly getting from having the US in Iraq. Their biggest supporter is hamstrung in an extremely difficult operation, the amount of regional instability has flared, and the Arabs are getting madder at the west all the time. What has Israel gained here?