I'm not certain what complications you might be referring to,

Lessee...

1. Israel is a huge customer for American-made war toys.


2. Israel is located right next to the most valuable bit of real estate on the planet. And, unlike Egypt, Israel is completely dependent on the US, because Israel doesn't have a lot of other friends.


3. Israel is a nice potential launch pad for air strikes into the surrounding territories and a secure base for naval operations in the Eastern Mediterranean. Even better, from Washington's perspective, Israel is willing to carry out those operations itself (and frequently pretends to be prepared to take unilateral action), which gives plausible deniability to Washington when people complain that one of their client states is bombing brown people.


4. Israeli spies and hitmen, unlike the CIA et al, are actually reasonably competent. And there's one more layer of cut-outs between Mossad/Shin Beth and the White House, which is always a plus.


5. A Palestinian victory over Israeli colonialism might set a precedent that would be irritating to the US, vis-a-vis the US' own colonial empire.


6. Keeping the Near East divided helps prevent any sort of effective political organisation in the world's most valuable subcontinent.


7. Backing Israel feeds the "Islam vs. The West^TM" narrative. And Muslims are just about the perfect enemy:
   • Unlike Russians, they are mostly brown, so they can be killed with a sort of impunity that Russians couldn't back in the good old days of the Cold War.
   
   
   • Unlike Mexicans, they are mostly in far-away countries, so they won't riot in American cities when they are mistreated.
   
   
   • And unlike Russians, they have no serious prospect of ever hitting back at the US in a way that does anything more substantial than provide a photo-op for some jingoist to proclaim renewed devotion to the wrr on trr.
   
   From the perspective of the armaments industry and the police state proponents, what's not to like?

And that's just the realpolitik. When you add the naked racism (Israelis are generally whiter than the surrounding people) and the fact that support for Palestine is a left-wing narrative, supporting Israel fits the neocon agenda like stupid fits a Creationist.

- Jake

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