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Originally posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Well like Mr.Selfdestruct said they are the only friendly nation in the region. Plus if you remember the cold war the Entire Arab world was in the Soviet camp, Israel was with us.
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Egypt was in the camp of whoever gave them money at the time. Iran, while not strictly an Arab nation, is in the region, was with the US until that whole, "Backing a murderous dictator who kills his own people" thing backfired so spectacularly.
Iraq was an ally of the US once the US fell out of love with Iran. Saudi Arabia has nominally been a US ally for much of the cold war.
Lebanon had good relations with the West until Israel invaded it. Since the US backed Israel, Lebanese are no longer so keen on the US. Pity, it was a functioning democracy, too.
At the same time, of course, Israel was selling US nuclear secrets to Aparthied era South Africa, and nowadays passes on the US millitary hardware it gets preferred access to China.