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The quid pro quo is well established
Israel gets: unashamed cover for its continued apartheid / settler / genocidal project
The West gets: a well armed, reliable ally in a strategically important and traditionally volatile region
The Nixon administration referred to Israel as “one of the cops on the beat” in the Middle East, and not much has changed since.
Eejit
On the question of support, one thing that always baffles me is the lack of a quid pro quo.
Why for e.g. is it not contingent on preventing settler expansion, or ensuring that displaced people (even if only the most recent) have right to return?