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The History of the conflict in the Middle East is long and well documented. To many biased observers the history of the Arab/Israeli conflict is very one sided, with one government, or one people causing the continued wars between the neighboring states. But, as any social scientist will state, all international conflicts have more than one side, and usually are the result of escalating events surrounding, in this case religion and land. Thus, using …

…which in the eyes of the Americans put them in direct confrontation and so the US would side with Israeli interest in Middle East affairs. Especially in the early years, few Arab countries saw the United States neither as an enemy nor as an ally. Most were concerned with the threat of returning colonialism. Yet, some countries saw the possibility of gaining resources from the great western power, or at least its enemy the USSR.