When we think of the Middle East, we are cognizant that the people who live there are primarily Arabic, Turkish, Persian, or Kurdish. So too, the most prominent religion in this region is Muslim, though within the Middle East, there are many sects of that Muslim religion. Yet, somehow in the country of Palestine, an Arabic nation, the nation-state of Israel was founded upon their land, and thus was born after World War II, thereby bringing Jews to the Middle East, but not just any of the Jewish faith, but in particular and specifically, European Zionists.
There are a multitude of reasons, why Israel was created, of which, one of the reasons which is typically discounted is the fact that the Middle East has not only a religion which has been at odds with the prevailing European religion of Christianity, but also the fact that within the Middle East there is a tremendous amount of oil, which Western nations have an obsession about and have had an obsession about for decades, because the engine that still fuels Western economies is oil based, and thereby those that have oil, are in the dominate position to call the shots, which is why Europe, despite losing their colonies and direct colonial influence in the Middle East, were absolutely determined that they would not lose completely their influence in the Middle East because the price of this happening to them would conceivably be catastrophic.
Indeed, it could be said that Israel represents the Western nations in the Middle East and thereby provides those Western nations with a formidable presence, which helps to keep recalcitrant Middle Eastern nations in check, because they rightly fear that war against them by Western nations would be disastrous for them. Additionally, Middle Eastern nations have recognized that for their own stability, it is thus seemingly in their best interests to have alliances with Western nations, that though currently making sense, may be the type of relationship that could at some future point, be one that they will regret, because Western nations have their own agenda – for the business of oil is the type of business that Western nations must have their continual say and influence upon.
All of the above indicates that Israel, as a proxy European nation, works hand-in-hand also with the United States of America to pursue the mission to, in essence, impress Western desires upon the Middle East, with the basic objective to have either compliant Middle Eastern leaders that adhere to Western goals or to defang those stubborn Middle Eastern nations so that they aren’t able to assemble a viable sovereign nation, and thus represent no threat to Western national interests. In short, Israel is a powerful presence in the Middle East, and will continue to be so, because the intent of Western nations really comes down to the salient fact that as long as oil is the engine of economic growth, then Western nations must have a controlling influence upon such, and thereby a strong military presence in the Middle East is there to effect that very thing.