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Largely agree, except perhaps wrt the depth of US support and willingness to get involved. That's a question of degree I think, and not as easy to predict post Iraq. Also I'm not sure the history of the US's involvement with Israel necessarily bears out the idea that it would offer unqualified support for, say, an expansionist programme backed by force. In 1967, for example, I believe many US strategists saw Arab-Israeli conflict as part of a larger cold war narrative and subordinate to it; there was therefore some pressure to inhibit Israeli expansion.
The one question I would ask is why you think Israel would be well off in comparison to its neighbours without US support. I can't really see a clear reason for this given the disparaties in natural resources.
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Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria do not have huge oil reserves
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. The reason why I would say Israel would be richer or at least comparable with those nations would be that it was settled by a lot of people who had financial backing, plus the Jewish diaspora has continued to fund it over it's entire existence. The Zionists who started the settlement of Israel were funded in their land buying from the international Jewish community.