There is no ‘Middle East.’ There’s a Levant America loves and a Gulf China needs

control of the Suez to Egypt. Also, although the Suez Canal was closed by Egypt for eight years following the June 1967 war, the U.S. did not force a reopening of the waterway.

Yet, within the framework of U.S. domestic politics, support for Israel is vitally important for emotional rather than geostrategic reasons that transcend the usual divisions continue reading …