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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Ilaine who wrote (25606)7/31/2006 1:31:57 PM
From: 8bits   of 541768
 
"I usually do, too, but it keeps spilling into everything else that's going on in the Middle East because the US is Israel's protector, always has been since 1948, and that's not going to change. So anger at Israel and anger at the USA are irretrievably intertwined."

The Suez crisis of 1956-57 basically saw Eisenhower putting pressure on Israel and Britain to withdraw from Egypt.

en.wikipedia.org

It wasn't until the 1960s that the US become more heavily involved in Israel (Especially after 1967..) Previously Britain and France were Israel big military suppliers.
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