07-18-2014, 08:32 PM
The US government fact page does a better job of recapping the alliance than could I.
Here's a snip:
U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS - Alliance History
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel as a state in 1948. Since then, Israel has become, and remains, America’s most reliable partner in the Middle East. Israel and the United States are bound closely by historic and cultural ties as well as by mutual interests.
Israel's founding was preceded by more than 50 years of efforts to establish a sovereign state as a homeland for the Jewish people. The1917 Balfour Declaration asserted the British Government's support for the creation “in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” Following the end of World War I (1914-1918), the League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine. Immediately after the end of British mandate on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed, and the U.S. recognized Israel that same day. Arabs in the Mandatory and neighboring Arab states rejected a 1947 UN partition plan that would have divided the Mandatory into separate Jewish and Arab states, and the area has seen periods of invasions and armed conflict since 1948.
The United States is committed to realizing the vision of a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state as the homeland of the Palestinian people, alongside the Jewish State of Israel. In July 2013 the Israelis and the Palestinians began negotiations on a final status agreement between the parties. That's now shot to hell.
REF: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3581.htm
The $$$$$$ -- How much the US supplies to Israel and Why
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Sure, yeah, uh-huh
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There have been ups and downs in the US's alliance with Israel during each US presidency, but Obama is definitely not amongst their favorite US heads of state because the Israeli govt doesn't think Obama has been heavy-handed enough with Iran and Syria on their behalf. But, since they want all that money to continue rolling in, Netanyahu doesn't scream too loudly about it. The Israelis do whatever the hell they want anyway.
Here's a snip:
U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS - Alliance History
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel as a state in 1948. Since then, Israel has become, and remains, America’s most reliable partner in the Middle East. Israel and the United States are bound closely by historic and cultural ties as well as by mutual interests.
Israel's founding was preceded by more than 50 years of efforts to establish a sovereign state as a homeland for the Jewish people. The1917 Balfour Declaration asserted the British Government's support for the creation “in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” Following the end of World War I (1914-1918), the League of Nations entrusted Great Britain with the Mandate for Palestine. Immediately after the end of British mandate on May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed, and the U.S. recognized Israel that same day. Arabs in the Mandatory and neighboring Arab states rejected a 1947 UN partition plan that would have divided the Mandatory into separate Jewish and Arab states, and the area has seen periods of invasions and armed conflict since 1948.
The United States is committed to realizing the vision of a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state as the homeland of the Palestinian people, alongside the Jewish State of Israel. In July 2013 the Israelis and the Palestinians began negotiations on a final status agreement between the parties. That's now shot to hell.
REF: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3581.htm
The $$$$$$ -- How much the US supplies to Israel and Why
Sure, yeah, uh-huh
There have been ups and downs in the US's alliance with Israel during each US presidency, but Obama is definitely not amongst their favorite US heads of state because the Israeli govt doesn't think Obama has been heavy-handed enough with Iran and Syria on their behalf. But, since they want all that money to continue rolling in, Netanyahu doesn't scream too loudly about it. The Israelis do whatever the hell they want anyway.