State of Israel is always labeled the unofficial fifty first state of the United States. This is because of the great relations the United States has had with Israel.  Their great relationship ties were born after the World War II when the Unites States supported the creation of Israel in 1947 out of Palestine so that the displaced Jews would have a place to settle.  Though much opposition from the Americans, President Truman went on and offered his support and even after the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. The United States vowed to protect Israel from any form of attack either internally or externally and even mobilized other states to accept Israel.  It provided Israel with economic and military grants especially when it was at war with Egypt and when the U.S was competing with the Soviet Union for influence in the region. The Soviet Union was helping Egypt and that’s when the U.S pumped in millions of dollars in the war to help Israel. This helped improve Israel to becoming powerful nation in the Middle East and since then, their ties have grown stronger and stronger.

Due to the good relations, the Israel Lobby is considerably more powerful and pervasive than other lobbies. It has existed for years under the Zionists secretly and even illegally throughout its history without the knowledge of the Americans due to the good ties of both governments. This relationship has improved from the sympathy and support for the creation of a Jewish homeland to an unusual partnership that links Israel, dependent on the United States for its economic and military strength, with the U. S. even after the war, the united states continued providing Israel with aid and this has been criticized since Israel will become fully dependent on the U.S. this helped has seen Israel improve economically and technologically and even having a powerful military(Israeli-United States Relations, 2002). America has also benefitted from the ties as Israel provides military technology to America. This has made them inter dependent.

All American Presidents have continued to maintain the good ties throughout though difficult at times particularly when Israel did not share the same views with the united states that it was responsible for peace in the region but later came to an understanding. Americas support for Palestine political rights during Carters time created tension between the two countries (Israeli-United States Relations, 2002).

America’s relation with Israel has affected its relationship with other Middle East States. Israel being the only Jewish country in the Arab region, it has had many enemies and has dragged America into it since most of the time it’s forced to support Israel. America hasn’t taken any action when Israel attacks surrounding countries for example when it attacked Gaza and killed 1,400 Palestinians and instead supports it. It doesn’t advocate for nuclear weapon inspection as it does for other nations. This has made Israel a threat to its neighbors and does what it wants since it has the American support. It fights for territory expansion leading to loss of lives in Palestine. America has been unable to broker peace in the region since it’s not impartial. The Arab countries consider America as an enemy since it’s responsible for Israel attack in the region since it supports it and provides aid to it.

Israel – America relations has affected America a lot since its always one sided in the Middle East politics and has been able to bring peace in the region. It has also had the Muslims as an enemy leading to increased terrorist attacks in the U.S. inability of America to intervene in the Palestine war with Israel has worsened it leading to fighting in the region and terrorist attacks. Israel has also been named an enemy by the Middle East countries. This has affected the Middle East politics and is bitter with U.S and Israel and has also affected trade between the two countries.

Work cited.

“Israeli-United States Relations.” Almanac of Policy Issues. 17 October 2002. Web.

22 April 2014.

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