Ostensibly, same reason we deposed democratically elected Mossadegh and put in the west friendly Shah in his place. To keep communists out of the ME and keep them from starving our energy interests there. "Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that, before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East."__Fr. John Sheehan of the Jesuit order
We all like to gang up on Russia using Trump as his puppet and his online trolls or Chinese honey pots, but god forbid we bring up AIPAC and their campaigns against the critics of Israel or anti-BDS/anti free speech movements.
When Biden a catholic said he was a zionist, he let the cat out of the bag, politics is owned by the religious right, both christian and jewish.
At it's most PR/populist level, zionism is sold as "right of Israel to exist" which is a message that is hard to argue against. Problem arises when everything around giving people equal rights in the region is labeled as anti-zionism by Israel.
insanity! What justification has America to continually supply Israel with aid and weapons and who continually shoot at civilians. The IDF led by Netanyahu are out of control, plain and simple. Meanwhile @gwb-trading who is pro Israeli goes silent.